LINK: “Reuse: a Recipe for Disaster”
Authoritative, yet simplistic assertions about reuse routinely bypass past experience of just how much work it takes to make something reusable. Original:
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Dave Briggs
An online notebook
Category Links
LINK: “Full stack decision making”
I know that many organisations are still designed around that hierarchy but if your goal is to end up with an organisation that is less silo’d at the same time as being more collaborative, adaptive and flexible it seems sensible…
LINK: “From stand-ups to scrutiny”
Marrying agile habits with traditional local government governance is easier said than done. If we’re not careful, bringing in agile can add another layer of governance, where stand-ups become daily team meetings and show and tells become programme boards and…
LINK: “Why You Need To Know About Low-Code, Even If You’re Not Responsible For Software Delivery”
Low-code development platforms are emerging as a key strategy to accelerate app delivery to support digital business transformation. And they have the potential to make software development as much as 10 times faster than traditional methods. Original:
LINK: “Gartner on Mobile App Development Platforms: Kony, Mendix, Microsoft, Oracle and Outsystems the winners #lowcode”
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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…
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…