Is IT a cost center or profit center?

Is IT a cost center or profit center?

4-minute read Quick summary: Transforming IT from a cost center to a profit center starts with more strategic business decisions concerning technology. There are parts of IT that are costs, such as vendor-provided platforms, and this may confuse some into lumping all...
Technical debt: what, why, and how

Technical debt: what, why, and how

3-minute read Quick summary: Technical debt is the elephant in the room … the same elephant that the blind men were curious about. Understand how perspective contributes to and can resolve tech debt.   Logic20/20 has been involved in many platform migrations and...
Generate random test data at run time in JMeter

Generate random test data at run time in JMeter

6-minute read Quick summary: Proven successful approaches to generating random test data in JMeter as part of a more complex API testing framework Random data prevents optimized libraries from caching requests and displaying artificially high performance. It is also...
A simple Salesforce Package cheat sheet

A simple Salesforce Package cheat sheet

4-minute read As an IT consultant, I frequently change technologies and project roles. The frequent shift of focus is great for staying interested, engaged, and marketable. The downside is that many mental-muscle-memory tasks fade or never take root with long gaps...