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LINK: “Gartner on Mobile App Development Platforms: Kony, Mendix, Microsoft, Oracle and Outsystems the winners #lowcode”
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Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Saturday, 28 July, 2018
Thursday, 12 July, 2018
LINK: “Outsourcing: The Socitm view”
Today, the picture is very different. Socitm policy advocates ‘smart sourcing’ as critical for successful ICT delivery – more aligned with common sense than past Whitehall policies. This is particularly important today, with cloud models offering more flexibility in scale…
LINK: “On Microsoft Teams in Office 365, and why we prefer walled gardens to the Internet jungle”
Having lots of features is one thing, winning adoption is another. Microsoft lacked a unifying piece that would integrate these various elements into a form that users could easily embrace. Teams is that piece. Introduced in March 2017, I initially…
LINK: “IT Matters Again: The Enterprise of The Future Present”
But the real answer to the question depends on how IT is defined. If narrow definition is used and IT is taken to mean nothing more than base infrastructure, then Carr’s viewpoint remains correct. If, however, the definition of IT…
Thursday, 5 July, 2018
LINK: “Professional blogs are a lot like reality TV”
They’re part of “working in the open”, sure. Showing what you’re doing, and that you haven’t (yet?) replaced everyone by robots. But corporate blogs that are consistently a good read, and not done by a tiny start up, are not…
LINK: “Developing our API strategy [at Hackney]”
Writing great APIs demands we use a range of techniques to improve the way we write code. Pair programming, test-driven development and coding in the open are all important attributes of writing great code and therefore making our APIs reusable…
LINK: “It’ll be different this time – honest! Cabinet Office Minister makes the sales pitch for the outsourcing industry”
There should be a situation where outsourcing in the public sector can be managed appropriately and used to complement in-house service delivery and policy-making. The problem is that such a balance demands in-house skills – and we outsourced all of…