Leadership

Non-tech companies and the Data Science challenges

I recently came across ‘Can Data Scientists spell Sustainability?’ by Yogi Schulz The article portrays the opposing views held by data science and information system departments and how each side view their responsibilities:  “Data scientists see only throw-away software that will be discarded once the breakthrough insights have been actioned by management. The [information systems] department sees only thoroughly...

Software Engineering for Professionals

I was invited by my friends at Untapped Energy to speak about Software Engineering. I’ve been lately seeing a lot of professionals (Engineers, Geologists, Accountants, Analysts, etc…) venturing into data analytics and have consequently been working with software and various technical components that proved challenging for some. I was motivated to provide some guidance around the main components used...

Thoughts on building vs growing

Many times I’ve heard professionals talk and plan out building software applications. Great ideas they’d like seen implemented, and how it could make things better. Though might not seem obvious – software applications, at least the good, are never built. Applications are grown.[1] There’s quite the range of differences between building an application and growing one, but I’ll focus...