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Articles in category: Agile Development
Can ERP Systems be Used to Drive Innovation?
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Organizations that have implemented ERP systems have long complained that deployments are too costly, time consuming and risky, so it is pretty rare that organizations look at ways to leverage enterprise software to drive innovation. Indeed, without the right expertise and guidance, ERP implementations can be difficult, even without the grand ambition of driving innovation.
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Five tips on how to build mobile enterprise apps that your employees will want to use
Employees increasingly have input into tools they deem to be right for the job. The consequence is that employees gain an implicit vote how enterprise IT is run - and in the case of mobile enterprise apps, this vote determines whether a mobile app will be a success or failure...
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Agile and Telecommuting
It is a long held principle of Agile development that face to face communication is the gold standard for interactions. I have been thinking a lot about this while following the debate on telecommuting following Yahoo’s elimination of working from home. The truth is that the Nexus forces of Mobile and Social have changed the way that we communicate in a fundamental way. Like many recent parents of teenagers, I have witnessed conversations via text message even when my boys are in the same room as their friends. . Recent moves by Agile ALM vendors to add social capabilities to their offerings reflects this desire to harness social media to support agile teams.
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Application PaaS "Value Engineering" with an ERP
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ERP Enterprises have spent heavily on their ERP systems over the last couple of years and many are now considering implementing application PaaS solutions in order to extract real value from the investment they have made. But what are the potential approaches and benefits one could accrue by linking your "system of record" with an aPaaS product?
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As Agile Takes a Foothold, Soft Skills Key for Business Analysts
True or false, with agile development methods beginning to permeate many organizations, the role of the business analyst, who gathers requirements in traditional waterfall development approaches, is no longer relevant.
Not necessarily, according to Forrester researcher Alissa Anderson, who took on the question in her recent research, “The Role of the Business Analyst in the Age of Agile Development.”
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PaaS - Confusion Reigns
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A recent venture beat article suggests that 60% of companies will soon deploy PaaS solutions. A surprising statistic? Not really, Platform as a Service (PaaS) has such a broad definition that a large number of vendors position themselves in this segment.
Our perspective on how to differentiate the various providers is by evaluating what they offer from an application development value chain perspective.
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The Evolution of PaaS in the Enterprise
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Enterprises are starting to take interest in running PaaS solutions virtually, as app developers want to focus on building apps rather than dealing with infrastructure issues. Enterprises that use PaaS solutions almost always go down the private route. This article focuses on private PaaS offerings and look at the considerations and what will happen if one day enterprises want to use PaaS solutions in the public cloud.
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Enterprise Agile: extending the agile process outside development
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I previously wrote about Enterprise Agile, not because I just want to put the "enterprise" moniker in front of everything, but because I think there are some fundamental challenges in moving to agile software development practices within enterprises, as opposed to startups. This follow-up post is triggered by the following comment on my previous article about this subject: Where we are struggling as an organization is the whole enterprise adopting agile. Sales and marketing expect each release to have a "big splash". Services hates the rapid iterations since they have a waterfall mindset where you accept a new release every 6 months and spent time chewing on it. I would love some pointers on resources that help move these parts of the value chain to agile.
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Envisioning A Services Based Future
I have been arguing how the future of IT is going to be dominated by services around big data and have even proposed a model for the next generation of PaaS. I started thinking towards this direction after a chat I had with Mike Hoskins, CTO of Pervasive Software, when we met at the sidelines of Super Computing Conference sometime back. When I decided to run a conference focussed on PaaS, I immediately wanted him to come there and tell the world about where we are heading in the future.
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PaaS - A new way for the 'suits' to manage the 'geeks'?
PaaS or “Platform-as-a-Service” is a relatively new entrant into the cloud lexicon – here is a short overview on why business thinks enterprise application developers need some assistance. The core value proposition is that you can deliver custom applications at the fraction of the cost - by reducing the complexity of deploying custom applications.
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7 ways a Platform can fuel the App Economy
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The term "App Economy" isn't formally defined but is often used to refer to the economy that has been created due to the development and delivery of software applications for smart-phones, tablets, and Facebook. This App Economy was created by the introduction of new, innovative platforms. Although the current App Economy is consumer-oriented, platforms for enterprise apps can and should fuel the App Economy in the same ways.
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Agile SAP: Project Dragon, the Project Managers’ wrap-up
This year we revamped Bluefin Solutions' Resource Planning, building an SAP BPC 10.0 Resource Management solution and a suite of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 reports which took advantage of greater data transparency and granularity.
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The Pros and Cons of NetWeaver Gateway - Four SAP Mentors Talk
NetWeaver Gateway - is it a way to engage a whole new generation of SAP developers, or just another way to integrate with SAP back end systems? Gateway has become a focal point for the issue of developer engagement at SAP, not to mention licensing models for customers. In this taped Google Plus Hangout, Jon Reed of www.JonERP.com talks to fellow SAP Mentors Graham Robinson, Ethan Jewett and Owen Pettiford on the myths and realities of NetWeaver Gateway, and the potential it may hold for new SAP development (and business) models.
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Agile Program Management
Saw a great presentation on Agile PM which is applicable to any organization trying to understand how to get to Enterprise Agile or to move beyond the baseline of Agile development teams. This presentation by Nina Schoen from Getty Images discusses how they made a migration and the use of Agile/Lean principles to guide decisions.
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Can SAP projects go Agile?
Agile Project Management methodology is making waves in the project management world of software development. Many big names in the software industry are using it and have success stories to share. So in this blog I am explaining how Agile project management methodology attacks the inherent weak-links in SAP projects. (Read Full Article)
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Sprint Zero: The Starting Line for Agile Success
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I had an interesting exchange with a friend of mine the other day about the Agile methodology. His impression of Agile was very different than mine, and I think it's because he's never seen a team that properly organized itself for a project using sprint zero.
"I'm working on a project using Agile, are you familiar with that?" I asked.
"Oh, sure," he said. "That's the methodology where the coders try to incorporate every little change into the project whenever the client suggests them, resulting in complete chaos."
I blinked. Were we talking about the same methodology?
My friend explained further. "I know that's exactly the opposite of what Agile is supposed to be, but in practice that's what you get," he said matter-of-factly.
It was at that moment that I realized that my friend, who works with a fair number of programmers, has never seen an Agile project which started on the right foot . . . one that included a sprint zero.
[2]Sprints are the very essence of Agile projects, and they are well-named: they're designed to be short, fast, and with a clearly-defined finish line. That finish line is a specific, usable ...
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The SaaS Factor in Packaged vs. Custom Software Debates
A new Forrester Research report finds that custom-built applications are gradually succumbing to software-as-a-service alternatives. It’s not the end of in-house developed apps, but change is coming. (Read Full Article)
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Using Agile Techniques in IT Operations
IT operations process frameworks like ITIL help us to define processes, but they don’t provide much in the way of guidance with respect to managing the operational work associated with these processes. While IT service desks can manage activities such as change requests, there is still a lot of work done by administrators, etc., that [...] (Read Full Article)
Implementing CRM in the Cloud: some lessons from business
In Yankee Group’s June 2011 survey on Cloud Computing adoption 55% of IT Decision-Makers cited a costly and difficult migration as a key barrier to adoption of cloud services, the third most mentioned obstacle after existing IT investments (61%) and a lack of confidence in data protection (58%).
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SAP Agile Development in Action
SAP executives talk a lot about how they’re talking to their customers. One of the ways they point to is the new agile, or lean, software development methodology. Execs say it’s helping customers get software and enhancements they want faster than ever before.
It doesn’t always take being a Colgate-Palmolive or a Coca-Cola to get into that process. For Marc Rosson and the Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD), his “in” was simply raising his hand.
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Go ahead .... Blame it on Agile
Agile methodology is a new Buzz word that started few years ago and many Organizations are moving into this space. I had seen and heard various teams assume Agile will make software implementations quicker and faster. This can be true if all pieces of puzzle align perfectly. But ... How? (Read Full Article)
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SAP NetWeaver Gateway speaks OData with SAP Annotations
The recently announced SAP NetWeaver Gateway enables accessing Business Suite data via REST and OData. You may wonder why we opted for OData instead of brewing our own dialect for REST service. Here's why.
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SAP eases Azure and .NET development
SAP has announced plans to interconnect its software with Microsoft's development platforms, making it easier for .NET and Azure developers to build applications that feed into SAP's fleet of business intelligence programs.
The collaboration, announced on Wednesday at SAP's Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, sees the companies tighten a historical collaboration. The goal of the two firms is to make it easier for .NET developers to access SAP applications without needing a fine-grained understanding of the programs.
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So Far, So Good in Massive Transition to Agile, SAP Says
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Enterprise software giant SAP is about halfway through what may be the largest conversion ever to Agile development practices and it's going well so far, with product release cycles taking about half the time previously needed, according to a recent interview with Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe.
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