Saturday, January 30, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Top Five Changes For Application Development In 2010
http://www.forrester.com/rb/teleconference/top_five_changes_for_application_development_in/q/id/6227/t/1?elq=f9e4f817ae9d479b99505941a313bc0f
The Great Recession of 2008-09 forced everyone in IT to think differently about where to cut costs and which projects and tactics are still worthy of investment. What are those opportunities for Application Development & Program Management professionals? Forrester recommends that app dev professionals make five key changes in 2010.
- Embrace cloud as an early-stage platform.
- Follow in the footsteps of the Web giants and Web startups.
- Favor flexibility and cost over platform loyalty.
- Become passionate about user experience.
- Upgrade the talent on application development teams.
Your overall goal: Become lean and mean so you'll be ready to move as the Great Recession wanes, thus leaving no doubt of your development team's contribution to improving business efficiency and driving increased revenue.
Vendors mentioned: Adobe, Amazon Web Services, Apache Software Foundation, AT&T, Dojo Foundation, Caspio, Google, IBM, LongJump, Microsoft, Oracle, RackSpace, Red Hat, Red Hat JBoss, Salesforce.com, Sun Microsystems, VMware, WorkXpress, and Zend Technologies