Competing in a digital world: Four lessons from the software industry. About 20 years ago, software’s use within organizations was largely confined to big transactional systems in the data center. Now, it underpins nearly every function in every industry. Software spending has grown accordingly, jumping from 32 percent of total corporate IT investment in 1990 to almost 60 percent in 2011. The allure is plain. On the front end, software-enhanced products and services can lead to entirely new offerings—for example, turning an ordinary running shoe into one that also tracks your mileage. And as the surge in social technologies shows, software permits a host of new marketing and communications channels that consumers have been quick to embrace.
The strategic as well as operational challenge is that software is not static. That reality introduces new competitive dynamics. To effectively respond to these new dynamics, companies must begin thinking about ways to broaden their ecosystems and revenue streams while becoming more responsive and agile. 1. 2. 3. 4. The Age of Agile Everything: Agile Applications Outside of IT (Marketing & Sales) | Gleanster Insights.
Sometime between the creation of the Knorad Zuse K1 computer and Justin Bieber’s 37 millionth follower on Twitter, using the word agile in business reached a tipping point. It’s cool to be agile; quick, nimble, responsive, iterative. Who doesn’t want that for their business! Agile Business Intelligence –yes! Agile Marketing – why not? Agile selling – of course! So, I thought I would do a quick 101 guide to common applications of agile in business. Should have used agile… Here are some of the most common uses of agile methodology across business functions: What is Agile Software Development? The roots of agile software development can be tracked back to the early 1970’s.
The approach is based on a number of tenants including: satisfaction based on rapid delivery of useable software, flexibility in changing requirements, frequent releases of working software, a constant pace, daily cooperation / feedback, self-motivated team members, and continuous adoption. What is Agile Marketing? Cozy, a personal cloud you can hack, host and delete. Logiciel association : agenda, bugdet,... - Innovance. Bonitasoft - Open Source Workflow & BPM software. Le big data est difficilement soluble dans les organisations traditionnelles par @jeremyharroch.
Le constat est sans appel : ils ont beau avoir augmenté ces derniers mois, les déploiements de projets Big Data en France ne sont pas à la hauteur de l’engouement médiatique suscité par cette nouvelle discipline. Un problème de technicité ? De compétence ? De moyen ? D’initiative ? Un peu de tout cela c’est vrai, mais avant tout un problème organisationnel : le Big Data dans les entreprises est vu tout autant comme une inconnue rentable qu’une matière complexe sur laquelle peu de personnes ont prise. Si les entreprises commencent à être sensibilisées au sujet, elles ne savent ni comment l’entamer, ni qui doit le porter. Et à ces freins naturels s’ajoutent parfois des enjeux politiques : certains recherchent uniquement dans le Big Data le statut de précurseur. Trouver la bonne équipe et cadrer correctement les projets, c’est donc là la principale difficulté du Big Data.
De la même façon, les équipes s’essayant au Big Data risquent gros à ne retenir que des chantiers ambitieux. Agile in the enterprise: To succeed, avoid the fundamentalists | VentureBeat | Dev | by Márcio “Mars” Cyrillo, CI&T. I remember it as though it were just months ago, but it was early 2005 when a heated discussion rippled across our company. A new way to develop software had matured and had been growing fast since 2001: the agile software development approach. We knew that it would disrupt the very controlled way CI&T had been developing custom software for big companies for over 6 years, and that was scary. Until then, we were exclusively implementing a formal process called RUP (rational unified process), a successful implementation of the ideas from the unified process framework. In our pitch we were purposely fighting the waterfall method that had been eroding the reputation of software houses over time.
Studies were consistently showing that more than 65 percent of big software projects would fail. Today, it comes without a single sign of pain to say that 100 percent of our projects are carried out using agile, but during that time we were uncertain about the future. 1. 2. 3. 4. Domain Driven Design by Marek Kalnik on Prezi. Case 103 The Black Enamel Box. Master Bawan posed this dilemma to the developers in his charge: “When investigating strange behavior in the production environment, our most powerful weapon has always been debug messages: the more numerous and detailed, the better.
Yet when used copiously, the formatting of such messages becomes expensive—needlessly expensive, for we exclude debug messages from our logs when we are not investigating problems. So which path is best? Safe but slow, or heedless but fast?” “Wú,” said one of the nuns. Bawan considered this, and seemed pleased. “Open the red box immediately,” said Bawan, “but leave the black box shut tight. Inside the red box the nun discovered a small bowl full of succulent kiwi fruit, lychee, and white pears, resting on a bed of goji berries.
Two years later, after the system had undergone several enhancements, a minor production problem appeared—the first in many releases. Suddenly, stack traces from NullPointerExceptions appeared on the screens of every user. Les grandes entreprises imitent les géants du Web pour leur informatique.