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What to Keep and What to Throw Away, Part 3

Posted July 27, 2006 | Leadership | Leadership |

In a recent set of columns, I have been thinking aloud about the state of systems thinking and training in IT. I say systems thinking and training because there's been too much focus on computer science education in recent years. In the process, we have focused far too much on programming and programming tricks and far too little on systems and how to design systems and databases to accomplish important business functions that are easy to build, test, deploy, and maintain.

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Ken Orr
Ken Orr was a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Data Analytics & Digital Technologies, Business Technology & Digital Transformation Strategies, and Business & Enterprise Architecture practices. He was also a regular speaker at Cutter Summits and symposia. Mr. Orr was an internationally recognized expert on enterprise architecture, data warehousing, knowledge management… Read More
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