Daily Archives: July 31, 2019

Analytics helps Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport F1 team take pole position

Formula One (F1) race cars are among the most technically advanced land vehicles on the planet. Since 2014, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport has dominated the World Constructor’s Championship, awarded by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) to the most successful designer over the course of a season. Matt Harris, head of IT at Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport,…

10 reasons software projects are slower than we expect

Douglas Hofstadter, longtime computer programmer and author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, summed up his experience in the computing trenches with this eponymous law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.  Yet organizations, stakeholders and project managers the world over still put timelines on software projects. Even programmers themselves.…