Celerity Software puts 20+ years of IT experience to work for learning: one clean source of student data, automation that removes busywork, and KPIs that show school and district leaders where to act. Offices in Calgary, California and Florida.https://celeritysw.com/https://celeritysw.com/blog/do-principles-stack/https://celeritysw.com/blog/do-principles-stack/We stacked our programming principles against our highest goal, enhancing learning for youth, and found a hierarchy. Here's how far it reaches, and where people take over.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/sif-meets-ai/https://celeritysw.com/blog/sif-meets-ai/A new client, a hub built entirely on the SIF standard, a 227 MB specification and the first AI coding tools. The table and column descriptions turned out to be what made the AI useful.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/two-hours-a-day-what-alpha-school-gets-right-about-ai-tutors/https://celeritysw.com/blog/two-hours-a-day-what-alpha-school-gets-right-about-ai-tutors/Joe Liemandt's Alpha School shows some ingenious ways to run an AI-first school: hire people for what they're best at, let kids admit what they don't know to a tutor that never judges, and act on the data.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/from-obedience-to-curiosity-what-a-philosophy-of-education-course-taught-me/https://celeritysw.com/blog/from-obedience-to-curiosity-what-a-philosophy-of-education-course-taught-me/Twenty-five centuries of education swing between obedience and curiosity. With AI tutors and a better grasp of how kids learn, we can finally build schools around the question-asker.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/i-did-it-my-way-or-we-followed-standards/https://celeritysw.com/blog/i-did-it-my-way-or-we-followed-standards/With standards, automation gets simpler. Standards go from internal to industry-wide: naming, data modeling, and interoperability frameworks like HL7, SIF and IEEE.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/performance-rules/https://celeritysw.com/blog/performance-rules/Have you ever applied weights to project dimensions? A business need comes up that looks best served by an IT solution. Here's a consideration for a CIO writing the project charter.Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/heads-in-the-clouds-meet-the-complainers/https://celeritysw.com/blog/heads-in-the-clouds-meet-the-complainers/CIOs care about networking. Servers, switches, routers — and maybe, once in a while, the social kind too. Here’s something worth knowing: your co-worker’s mood is contagious. The colleague who’s…Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/whats-a-pareto-distribution-and-why-should-a-cio-care/https://celeritysw.com/blog/whats-a-pareto-distribution-and-why-should-a-cio-care/You don’t need to be a mathematician to use this. You just need to know it exists, and that it’s probably already shaping your department right now. The Quick Version Most people assume things in…Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/firefighters-vs-turtles-whats-your-reward-model/https://celeritysw.com/blog/firefighters-vs-turtles-whats-your-reward-model/Every IT department has its heroes. The SWAT team that swoops in when the production database goes down at 2 a.m. The on-call engineer who restores service before the executive team finishes their…Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/when-is-it-too-much-investment-in-an-enterprise-application/https://celeritysw.com/blog/when-is-it-too-much-investment-in-an-enterprise-application/The pitch is always good. The sales team walks you through the platform and every feature speaks directly to a problem you have. Hundreds of clients swear by them. They run massive conferences…Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/no-pain-no-gain-finding-your-it-staffs-real-pain-points/https://celeritysw.com/blog/no-pain-no-gain-finding-your-it-staffs-real-pain-points/Every IT shop has them. The recurring tickets, the workarounds nobody documents, the late-night calls that everyone shrugs off as “just how things are.” If you’re not actively hunting for these…Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/when-app-support-and-infrastructure-actually-work-together/https://celeritysw.com/blog/when-app-support-and-infrastructure-actually-work-together/Most IT shops have a quiet rivalry between application support and infrastructure. Different priorities, different tools, different definitions of “done.” But every once in a while, two teams stop…Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/when-performance-is-measured-performance-improves/https://celeritysw.com/blog/when-performance-is-measured-performance-improves/There’s a quote I keep coming back to: “When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance…Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/dyi-projects-have-something-in-common-can-you-guess/https://celeritysw.com/blog/dyi-projects-have-something-in-common-can-you-guess/There’s an owner, preferring to do the job themselves. Have you asked: Are there tasks done in our IT shop that we could offer up as self-serve services? Are our apps designed so stakeholders can…Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/data-is-it-your-organizations-repository-for-change/https://celeritysw.com/blog/data-is-it-your-organizations-repository-for-change/Part 1 of a 3-part post on your data. Data is primarily about people and their changes over time. Students take courses, Customers buy, Staff do jobs and change jobs, Patients get ill and then…Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/you-hired-a-hotshot-amazing/https://celeritysw.com/blog/you-hired-a-hotshot-amazing/Well. Let me give you some background on this fellow. He was charged with automating the Windows Updates for the app and DB servers. There were critical on-prem SharePoint servers in the mix. A…Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/only-ask-questions-what-i-learned-trying-to-start-a-socratic-school/https://celeritysw.com/blog/only-ask-questions-what-i-learned-trying-to-start-a-socratic-school/A podcast, a chance meeting in an elevator, and a pitch to bring an Acton Academy-style program into a school district. It didn't launch, but it left me with two rules for every conversation.Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://celeritysw.com/blog/whats-in-a-question/https://celeritysw.com/blog/whats-in-a-question/A kick under the table taught a blunt IT architect that questions don't back people into a corner. Pointing out problems directly does.Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT