My company implemented an unlimited PTO policy shortly before the COVID pandemic.  In the first year, pretty much everybody was working from home and pretty much nobody was taking PTO...

Rod, I'm not surprised that your large IT organization has this problem.  In my experience, the larger a group is, the harder it is to address debt.  (If it was...

"Advent of Code" is released in December with daily questions.  However, previous year questions are available and you can still do those without the pressure / friendly competition of trying...

A book that addresses real issues is "Weapons of Math Destruction", by Cathy O'Neil.  She talks about how AI algorithms build in unfair behavior, and usually in a way that...

1. Today's collaboration software make it possible to be as productive from home as in the office.   Productivity is measurable, and if those numbers are good, most companies can't make...

One more pile-on.  Specifying the schema means that the function is part of the specific database, and not a function in the T-SQL language.  It's just required, besides being good...

Regardless of which one is "better", an important difference between the two products is that SSRS will always come into the house through IT.  PowerBI might come in through the...

About Fusion restaurants: it's pretty rare for them to do everything (or even most things) at a master chef level.

I've never worked with CosmosDB, so I don't speak from experience...

Steve, I did this last year because of your article at this time.  I was just telling a colleague about it this year as I saw that the topic came...

We use JIRA.  It can create Scrum and Kanban boards, so maybe you could call it a PM tool.  Our PMs like it and use it because it gives them...

I'm with David Poole on this.  Deployments should be small and often.  Don't like the result?  Do another "forward" deployment, never backward.  If deployments are automated and fairly easy, there's...

I think there are two topics here:

1. Low code / no code development.

2. Citizen developers.

As Steve says, there is plenty of mundane, plumbing-type code that should be simplified and "black...

In several places I've worked, the business users and IT departments have made the decision to customize commercial software, imparting their own special flavors of it instead of accepting the...

Skeleton567, for interviews I like the answer "no, but I will be".  It's honest, and shows ambition.  Some employers don't buy it, though.  I think it's their loss.

There is so...

Rod, you're right that containers have a largely Linux following and that Docker (for example) works better there.  There are Windows containers.  I know people who have installed Docker on...