Strategic advice to leverage new technologies
Technology is at the heart of nearly every enterprise, enabling new business models and strategies, and serving as the catalyst to industry convergence. Leveraging the right technology can improve business outcomes, providing intelligence and insights that help you make more informed and accurate decisions. From finding patterns in data through data science, to curating relevant insights with data analytics, to the predictive abilities and innumerable applications of AI, to solving challenging business problems with ML, NLP, and knowledge graphs, technology has brought decision-making to a more intelligent level. Keep pace with the technology trends, opportunities, applications, and real-world use cases that will move your organization closer to its transformation and business goals.
Insight
Recent advances in source code analysis techniques enable us to quantify technical debt. By so doing, software quality can be tied to cost and value through a common denominator: the dollar. This tie enables the governing of the software development process with great effectiveness at both the tactical and strategic levels, as we examine in this Executive Report by Israel Gat. Such governance is applicable to any software method/process, enabling "apples to apples" management across a diverse portfolio of projects.
Taking a Step Backward
For the last 40 years, we struggled hard to develop the scientific base an engineering team needs -- "craftsmanship" is what we tried to overcome! Now a new movement is trying to drag us back into the old times of chaos.
Software systems become unmaintainable sooner or later. Modifications get more and more expensive, and after a while modifications become unaffordable. Eventually, the pain becomes intolerable, and a new system is developed. Then the same game starts over again.
THE EMERGENCE OF THE USABILITY PROBLEM
The early days of computing were dominated by technology-savvy developers and technology-savvy users. Computer users were like customers at an amusement park who had to be "this tall to ride this ride," and just about everyone met the requirements. That pretty much put usability issues on the back burner and out of mind.
