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This community aims to provide links, resources, book suggestions, tips and insights to facilitate learning and development of IT professionals in financial services, and to develop a forum for IT professionals to exchange views on various related items.

Paul Smyth - Kynetix Technology Group - London | 22/11/2012 | 3167 views | 1 comment

Why the 10,000 Hour Rule Matters in Software Development

Introduction I’ve just recently finished reading two books. The first was “Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, And the Science of Success” by Matthew Syed. He is a British journalist and broadcaster who was the English number one table tennis player for many years In the book he made a number of references to another boo...

Paul Smyth - Kynetix Technology Group - London | 03/10/2012 | 2426 views | 2 comments

So You Want Your Software On Time and On Budget?

Introduction I’ve been working in the software industry for over 30 years and one thing hasn’t changed in that time. Clients, quite understandably, continue to want software delivered on time and on budget. For software developers, like our company, this is the base requirement that we live with on every project with every client. In ...

Paul Smyth - Kynetix Technology Group - London | 10/09/2012 | 2380 views | 3 comments

Stop Wasting Money On Software You Don't Need!

THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Many years ago I was invited by a UK FTSE 100 company to a meeting to discuss a project to audit one of their legacy applications and to make recommendations about how they could redevelop it. This application had been operational for over 10 years and was coming to the end of its life. One of the thing...

Paul Smyth - Kynetix Technology Group - London | 08/08/2012 | 9289 views | 6 comments

7 Reasons Why Software Development Is So Hard

Introduction I’m often asked by lay people why we humans can undertake large construction or engineering projects with relative success and yet we struggle to deliver software projects without bugs and on time. In an attempt to explain why this is the case I give below 7 reasons why software development is very difficult. This is not an att...

Bishwajit Choudhary - Nets - Oslo | 10/05/2012 | 1549 views

I trust your passport, BUT ...

I recall a passionate debate in 2011 with some colleagues on if internationally trusted national passports (sometime in future) will be ever trusted by businesses to allow people access to their premises? Is such a scenario ever possible (as we move to digital passports and additional information on the chip)? More fundamentally, what does this int... Tags: Security, Risk & regulation