Galhano //127.0.0.1

Summary: Community features are spreading from “Web 2.0” to “Enterprise 2.0.” Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features. Through several rounds of research on intranet portals, we’ve repeatedly reached the same conclusions: When Intranet information architectures are structured according to the org chart, employees have a hard time finding their way around. It’s better to structure information according to how people use it, rather than what department owns it. Role-based personalization lets portals bring information to users in centralized views, rather than forcing users to navigate an immense information space to find …

Cowboy Coder Cowboy Coders are programmers who write code according to their own rules. They may be very good at writing code, but it doesn’t generally follow the standards, processes, policies, or anything else derived from the group. Cowboy Coders work well alone, or in the old-style CaveProgrammer environment, but they rarely, if ever, work well in a team. Often times, they are a burr in the saddle that keeps the team from getting positive work done. The above elicits mixed emotions. I have often been a CowboyCoder; in some circumstances I didn’t have a choice (I was the *only* …