Dovetail Software Blogs: Users Rule in Software Development
“Dovetail
Software’s engineers remind us that users just want things to work the
way they expect them to, and developers need to realize this.
Furthermore, there’s no point creating a manual explaining how a thing
works, because users won’t read the manual – better just to design
software to perform as required.
“Mashups, as one small
piece of the puzzle, are part of a developing, universal infrastructure
of knowledge that allows for contextually relevant sorts in real time.
In plain words for the consumers, this means getting exclusively what
you want, exactly when you need it. End users don’t much care how this
is achieved.”
Study: 45% Of Workers Steal Data When Changing Jobs
“Of
the 45% of respondents who said they’ve taken data with them when
they’ve left a job, some said they simply e-mailed data to a personal
address. Others said they walked out the door with the data, usually on
a peripheral storage device, tucked in a bag or pocket. Eighty-seven
percent said they’re allowed to use flash drives, while 69% can use
external hard drives. Even MP3 players, which are used by 46% of respondents, can be used as external hard drives.”
Seven Things the CIO Should Know About Telecommuting
“But
too often, IT management doesn’t understand the key issues that can
affect productivity and team morale. Managers can make painful and
expensive errors even when their hearts are in the right place. If you
get telecommuting right, you’ll have a crew of independent
technologists who get their jobs done efficiently; if not, you’ll
create dissension, distrust and workflow confusion.”
6 steps to IT management freedom
“3.
expand your understanding of the issues that link IT success to
business success. Get gut comfortable with the valuations non IT people
put on both IT services and IT related risk; understand why these pull
in opposite directions, and integrate that new knowledge into your IT
decision process;”
Google love belongs in the Enterprise!
“In
a presentation headlined 'Search as a Decision Making Tool,' Gough made
the Google case for why its Enterprise Search products 'bridge the gap'
between consumer technology and business technology.
“Gough
graphed a 'hockey stick strange phenomenon,' to illustrate his thesis
that while user technology satisfaction in the consumer space is on the
rise, user technology satisfaction in the enterprise has not kept pace.”
Making EDM Real
“Connected
decisions is a new area for the blog and I will blog some more about it
after InterACT. For now, consider an example like an existing customer
applying for a new product. While the origination process (or
underwriting process) uses a decision, that decision should be
connected to decisions already made about managing that customer (and
their claims, for instance). Today too many customers have disconnected
decisions that fail to make these decisions optimal.”
How to mediate semantics in an EDA
“In an EDA
a business event is represented in a canonical format (presentation)
with unambiguous semantics. This format and semantics are defined as
canonical message types in the enterprise’s Canonical Data Model. These
messages are the core of the event-driven architecture and are valuable
business assets that must be treated as such with regard to protection.”
