Dovetail Software Blogs: Culture Surprise For IT
“In
reinventing itself to become a business the IT department doesn’t have
to suffer abrupt culture shock: CIOs can read this and turn the
experience into mild surprise. Either way, as IT begins to listen to
its customers within the enterprise it will also become challenged to REVERSE its traditional way of building the organization’s computing capacity.”
Communities: Hotbeds of Innovation at IBM
“That is the basic outline of the presentation which I have already shared over at Slideshare
and which I am embedding over here as well further down below. If you
are interested in getting a copy of the slide deck you would be able to
get them as well from that same link. And to finish off the
presentation here are the closing remarks from the presentation from
one good friend of mine and fellow IBMer; Lynn Busby:
Innovation is the creative side of collaboration
Collaboration is built on trust
Trust is built on relationships
Relationships are built by getting to know others"
Waterscrum vs. Scrummerfall
“First,
we got Scrummerfall. This is the negative term coined by Brad Wilson
whereby Scrum is combined with Waterfall to produce an unsustainably
poor process, quickly abandoned. Now, we get Waterscrum. This term,
coined by Kevin Neher, is something a bit more positive. This refers to
the notion of using Scrum as a process in an organization that uses
waterfall-based checkpoints to manage risk."
The 30-Day Blitz, IT Agility in Action
“The
best way to launch a project is to deliver tangible business value in
the first 30 days. I call this the 30-Day Blitz. It’s critical to start
with fast delivery of something business people can immediately put to
use because it provides clear evidence the project is headed in the
right direction and will live up to expectations (at least most of
them)”
The Lost Art of Software Engineering
“Software
engineering does not apply only to propriet ary software. You still need
to analyze and design even when implementing 3rd party software. How
many failed projects have you seen with implementations of SAP or Peoplesoft? How many IT shops are afraid to take on initiatives like Enterprise Architecture, SOA, and Business Processing Reengineering?”
Microsoft needs REST
“Apparently, Microsoft is diverging from the rest of the Web 2.0 world on how to approach integration and mashups. REST (Representational
State Transition) is an architectural style that is transforming how
systems integrate together, but it isn’t a standard. The ATOM Publishing Protocol (APP) is a popular RESTful
standard used by Google and Yahoo among others to integrated services
and manage publishing of information. However, Microsoft has taken
exception to APP that everyone else is adopting and chosen to build their own protocol.”
The Gears that could ‘augur the death of Microsoft’
“But to install an API
into the general distribution of traditional operating system like
Windows, the Mac, or even Linux requires the say-so of a handful of
people. Not so with the Internet which, like operating systems, is also
quickly turning into a collection of APIs (a good hunk of which are for
Google’s applications). In fact, barely a day goes by where another API
doesn’t show up on the Net — one that’s available to all developers.
This is drawing developers in droves to the mashup ecosystem of
software where they can draw upon multiple APIs from multiple sources
to produce unique and innovative applications.”
