We, at WDDinc, have a service offering that many of our clients enjoy deeply. The interesting part is that most of our clients didn’t know it was possible. We offer Retained Services to all of our clients. Essentially, retained services allow any client to use our services however they choose. They will have a minimum monthly allotment of hours they can use, and typically get a discounted rate. We …
I am not usually a widget or tool guy – they always seem to take more effort than they are worth. I have, however, found one recently that is great. I like to describe Dropbox as a 2 Gig flashdrive in the Cloud. It shows up on all of my PC’s (home and office) and mobile devices (iPhone and iPad) as part of my file system. Whatever files I copy, change or remove …
Failure is not a prerequisite for success. A Harvard Business School study found already-successful entrepreneurs are far more likely to succeed again (the success rate for their future companies is 34 percent). But entrepreneurs whose companies failed the first time had almost the same follow-on success rate as people starting a company for the first time: just 23 percent. People who failed before have the same amount of success …
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back. – Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
