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Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | 
Starting with a Keynote: The Next Decade of Application Development.
The question they are posing should have been posed at the onset of the summit - "are you ready, willing and able to take advantage of technological change?" They started however, with the answers - application portfolio management, service oriented architecture, master data management, context based architecture and the like. I'm glad to see that they are getting to the problem statement.
16 hours ago
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ok, let's get to the meat:
CIO Strategies, 2008:
1. Delivering projects that enable business growth
2. Linking business and IT strategies and plans
3. Attracting, developing and retaining IT personnel
Trust Gartner to tell people what they should already know. Boomers behave differently from Gen Y and Millenials. The latter are much more open minded - are they really?
"How to manage and control the additional chaos presented by the new application delivery models?"
"Why would anyone write anything from scratch?"
I don't think they have integrated the new economic conditions into their analysis quite yet. When you have people already on the payroll to write things from scratch without spending any expense $$, this question can be reframed.
Aleks
So first, a warning against elegance
(FROM GARTNER ANALYST!). Then a quote that "Organizational Design DOES NOT matter." Did I suddenly jump through a looking glass while sitting here?!
Two key points:
Avoid the idiots
Don't be dumb
Obviously, the Gartner analysts haven't been close to application development organizations for a long time...
So being an agitator, I asked the question of the analysts: "How will the current economic conditions affect your assumptions about what's important to IT leadership?"
The answer - not really. Talk about tunnel vision.
Aleks
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