Yesterday’s post on mash-ups touched on one example of a ‘new era’ in application development. This new era is categorized by several key shifts and new capabilities:
- Increasing uptake of agile methodologies by both development organizations and - more importantly – acceptance of (and engagement in) iterative methods by business people
- New development environments and technologies, increasingly leveraging the simplicity and speed of the web/Internet and social software
- Development organizations better understanding and embracing service-oriented development concepts
- Application leaders recognizing that the main challenge continues to be one of driving changes in behavior and culture
- A wide variety of non traditional developers suddenly having the ability to compose or orchestrate new, combinatorial capabilities out of a variety of existing applications/services
- Etc. (add in your own additional attributes of new era app dev)
Because we believe this new era of development represents both tremendous opportunity and a whole new minefield of risks, we have created an entire track of sessions focsed on Embracing New Era Application Development Practices. Make sure to check out Thomas Murphy’s keynote for this track – The Future and Present of AD.
