Agile in the Enterprise: Scaled Agile Framework
For those of you working in an enterprise and trying to implement Agile software development methodologies, you may be wondering how it’s possible to implement Agile best practices for your organization. In an enterprise, with legacy systems, system teams, complexity, and sheer size of an organization, sometimes the Agile manifesto sounds good on paper but [...]
Web 2.0 Users/Consumers in the Enterprise
The last 2 years in web startups and general usability improvements online have been fascinating. A product of this innovation period is a consumer/userbase of individuals who come to expect the same experience out of every web-based application they use online and at their day jobs. I love the passion! There was a good post [...]
A lesson in client servicing an application development project
We recently completed our first integration with an external customer website and our e-commerce website. (By “integration,” I mean an API in which we pass configured product data from our site to a 3rd party shopping cart.) What ensued was an interesting learning experience for myself and our group of developers on the project. Everybody has their own development [...]
Business and IT: A Love/Hate Relationship. But why?
As I’ve transitioned from the marketing department as a web marketing manager to the IT department as an application/development manager, to my now current role of senior IT manager, I’ve gradually moved up the food chain of strategy conversations with both the internal business, customers, and vendors. The constant theme in all of these discussions [...]
Enterprise apps should mirror consumer apps
In this post about “Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web” from ReadWriteWeb, the following comment was made: Work Tools Need to Mirror Web Tools: Gen Y will drive adoption of “Enterprise 2.0” products and services. Gen Y in the workplace will not just want, but expect their company to provide them with [...]
