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What's new in Application Development 2.0 - Collaborate

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Some time ago I wrote a post on Application Development 2.0 three key changes seem to me to be involved:

  • Collaborate don't compete
  • Declare don't code
  • Iterate don't finish
Let's take the first one today and work on the other two later in the week.
The first change that is necessary is that programmers and business users have to learn to collaborate rather than compete. The reality is that some aspects of application development are going to require programmers and technical skills and yet truly successful applications must be driven by and largely owned by the business. As with all changes this requires changes to people, process and technology. People must change their attitudes with business people understanding the constraints of IT and IT people understanding that their "users" are more and more comfortable with technology and must be brought into the process. Processes must change, with things like waterfall methodologies and huge requirements documents being replaced with more agile and inclusive approaches. Finally technology must change with traditional coding environments being replaced with approaches that are more accessible to non-technical users and more suitable for collaboration. Only then will the collaboration necessary for effective systems development and business agility happen.
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A blog about the use of decision management technologies like predictive analytics and business rules to deliver agility, improve business processes and bring intelligent automation to SOA.

James Taylor

James Taylor blogs on decision management for ebizQ, and is an independent consultant on decision management, predictive analytics, business rules, and related topics. He works with clients to identify and bring to market advanced decision management solutions. He is widely considered a leading expert and visionary in enterprise decision management, and has published a book on the topic: Smart (Enough) Systems. For more information please contact him at james@jtonedm.com.



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