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    Scaling Your Technology with Your Business

    8 January, 2007 (18:00) | IT Management, Technology | By: Scott Burkett

    scalability.jpgI have been advising a local entrepreneur who is building a really interesting new web play. A great guy, but doesn’t have a deep background in technology. He is starting to see some traction with his service, and is beginning to run into those early scalability hurdles that so many young startups eventually run into.

    Our informal discussions around scalability inspired me to jot down some of my thoughts on this issue, and how early-stage entrepreneurs can scale their technology platform from 5 users to millions.

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    Managing the IT Backlog

    6 February, 2006 (06:00) | IT Management | By: Scott Burkett

    Welcome to a new year of creation, innovation, streamlining, and branch pruning, my fine-feathered fellow technology leaders. One of the challenges that many of you face this time of the year is dealing with the dreaded IT “backlog”. You know, that stack of projects that you commited your team to completing, but just haven’t been able to complete?

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