This document summarizes a presentation about the challenges faced by requirements engineers and professionals due to the rise of new technologies and amateur developers. It notes that tools like the internet have lowered barriers for non-professionals to create software. This has led to a gap between professional analysts and amateur developers working in marketing. The document gives examples of issues that can arise when marketing departments hire external agencies to quickly build applications without following proper requirements and security practices. While some applications become obsolete after campaigns, others take on more importance over time, leaving professionals struggling to maintain unstructured code. The document argues this approach does not lead to true success and discusses potential measures to improve coordination between professionals and amateurs developing customer-facing applications and websites.
Notes for Evolutionary Development MethodologyDonna Kelly
EDM is an agile, spiral methodology developed specifically for business intelligence. It is a complete end-to-end methodology including assessment, initiation, and delivery.
EDM incorporates a principles-based layered architecture, including business architecture, information systems architecture, and techology layers.
Often as developers we are stuck evaluating only the negative artifacts of technical debt. However, what if we looked at the debt metaphor from the point-of-view of our business executives. Would we reach the same conclusions?
In this presentation, I demonstrate that technical debt is not always something to be avoided. In fact, when debt is incurred responsibly, it can become a powerful tool that improves the communication between stakeholders and technologists.
As we inspect this concept, I offer rules and guidelines for evaluating when debt is good and when it is toxic. Once we have a firm understanding of this framework, I present strategies for prudently measuring, paying, and using debt. At the end of the presentation, both developers and business stakeholders will gain a new vocabulary for describing project decisions that will maximize the collaboration between both teams.
Internet of Things Brings On Development Demands That DevOps Manages, Say Exp...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect discussion on how continuous processes around development and deployment of applications impact and benefit the Internet of Things trend.
A Tale of Two IT Departments, or How Governance is Essential in the Hybrid Cl...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on how two organizations have been improving their application’s performance via total performance monitoring and metrics.
Cloud-Mobile Mega Trends Point to Rapid Need for Radical Application Transfor...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how consumer-driven platform variety is affecting how enterprises must adjust their approach to architecture.
Notes for Evolutionary Development MethodologyDonna Kelly
EDM is an agile, spiral methodology developed specifically for business intelligence. It is a complete end-to-end methodology including assessment, initiation, and delivery.
EDM incorporates a principles-based layered architecture, including business architecture, information systems architecture, and techology layers.
Often as developers we are stuck evaluating only the negative artifacts of technical debt. However, what if we looked at the debt metaphor from the point-of-view of our business executives. Would we reach the same conclusions?
In this presentation, I demonstrate that technical debt is not always something to be avoided. In fact, when debt is incurred responsibly, it can become a powerful tool that improves the communication between stakeholders and technologists.
As we inspect this concept, I offer rules and guidelines for evaluating when debt is good and when it is toxic. Once we have a firm understanding of this framework, I present strategies for prudently measuring, paying, and using debt. At the end of the presentation, both developers and business stakeholders will gain a new vocabulary for describing project decisions that will maximize the collaboration between both teams.
Internet of Things Brings On Development Demands That DevOps Manages, Say Exp...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect discussion on how continuous processes around development and deployment of applications impact and benefit the Internet of Things trend.
A Tale of Two IT Departments, or How Governance is Essential in the Hybrid Cl...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on how two organizations have been improving their application’s performance via total performance monitoring and metrics.
Cloud-Mobile Mega Trends Point to Rapid Need for Radical Application Transfor...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how consumer-driven platform variety is affecting how enterprises must adjust their approach to architecture.
The technical debt metaphor is useful in capturing the long-term impacts of
tradeoffs taken during software maintenance between productivity (getting
something done sooner) and maintainability (degradation of the code's
quality over time). This webinar on Technical Debt will present
techniques and insights that help software engineers to identify and track
technical debt in their projects. We will outline how business and product
quality goals should affect the choice of approaches (and combinations of
approaches) for managing technical debt. More specifically, we will discuss
a set of automated approaches based on static code analysis that are likely
to spot problems in source code that have real impact on productivity and
defect proneness. Based on previous empirical studies, we will give further
advice on which types of debt can be found by these tools, and which types
are not yet detectable.
What is Technical Debt? It doesn't have to be negative, but it does have to be carefully managed. Here is a quick run-down of best practice to approaching Technical Debt management.
This "Slideument" is based on the presentation slides used for Sue Johnston's session on Personal Kanban at the IABC World Conference, June 9, 2014 in Toronto.
DevOps by Design -- Practical Guide to Effectively Ushering DevOps into Any O...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on some powerful best practices on making DevOps an accelerant to broader business goals, but at the level of a multigenerational IT activity.
Using Testing as a Service, Globe Testing Helping Startups Make Leap to Cloud...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how Globe Testing is pushing the envelope on Agile development and applications development management using HP tools and platforms.
Technical debt is often characterized as design or code tradeoffs. In this talk I discuss how shortcuts in requirements analysis might lead to technical debt as well.
www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-3-904
Effizienzsteigerung durch Prozessautomatisierung – ein Ausspruch, der sich durch unsere Geschichte zieht. Eindrucksvoll bereits durch Henry Ford in der industriellen Fertigung umgesetzt, lässt sich der dort geprägte Begriff des „Production Workers“ auch auf heutige Problemstellungen in der IT anwenden. Dies ist besonders dann der Fall, wenn etwa Angebotsprozesse, Urlaubsanträge, rechtlich bedingte Freigabeprozesse oder etwa Integrationsprozesse zur Erreichung einer einheitlichen Qualität auf immer identische Weise ablaufen sollen.
Doch liegt der tatsächliche Mehrwert einer Prozessautomatisierung tatsächlich nur in der Implementierung starrer Abläufe? Sind es nicht vielmehr die dynamischen Reaktionen, die in komplexen Sachverhalten und aufgrund plötzlich auftretender neuer Ereignisse das wahre Optimierungspotenzial in sich tragen? Warum durchbrechen automatisierte Prozesse nicht endlich den begrenzten Raum von Verbesserungen auf der Mikroebene, das heißt innerhalb von Abteilungen, und drängen in den Enterprise Bereich vor?
Im Rahmen der SOA, BPM und Integration Days 2012 in München stellten Hajo Normann (SOA & BPM Lead for ASG bei Accenture) und Torsten Winterberg (Manager Business Development & Innovation bei OPITZ CONSULTING) in ihrer Präsentation die Unterschiede zwischen Routine- und Wissensarbeit heraus und gingen dabei insbesondere auf den Businessnutzen adaptiver Prozesse ein. Des Weiteren stellten sie Konzepte zur Analyse und Notationen zur Dokumentation wissensintensiver Prozesse vor. Dieser Beitrag ist entstanden aus Arbeiten des Teams Masons-of-SOA, dem neben den beiden Referenten und anderen auch Danilo Schmiedel, SOA-/BPM-Experte und Senior Consultant bei OPITZ CONSULTING, angehört.
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Über uns:
Als führender Projektspezialist für ganzheitliche IT-Lösungen tragen wir zur Wertsteigerung der Organisationen unserer Kunden bei und bringen IT und Business in Einklang. Mit OPITZ CONSULTING als zuverlässigem Partner können sich unsere Kunden auf ihr Kerngeschäft konzentrieren und ihre Wettbewerbsvorteile nachhaltig absichern und ausbauen.
Über unsere IT-Beratung: http://www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-8-10
Unser Leistungsangebot: http://www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-8-874
Karriere bei OPITZ CONSULTING: http://www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-8-5
Technical Debt has become a catch-all phrase for any code that needs to be re-worked. Much like Refactoring has become a catch-all phrase for any activity that involves changing code.
These fundamental misunderstandings and comfortable yet mis-applied metaphors have resulted in a plethora of poor decisions.
What is technical debt?
What is not technical debt?
Why should we care?
What is the cost of misunderstanding?
With Large Workforce in the Field, Source Refrigeration Selects an Agile Plat...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a nationwide company has harnessed the power of mobile applications to increase the productivity of its workforce.
Whether we know it or not, every time we deliver a feature we also deliver technical debt. This debt remains largely invisible, it isn't tracked, it isn't visible on our information radiators and we very seldom tell our clients about it. The closest we come to acknowledging technical debt is bugs, mainly because our users tell us there is a problem, so we can't ignore it. Technical debt shouldn't be invisible, it's as real as the features we deliver and we should start treating it so. In this talk I propose a technical debt model which can be used when identifying technical debt, furthermore I propose a low friction technique for integrating technical debt into your current SDLC process.
Trigger for the next industrial revolutionLaxman Marathe
Get to know what will trigger the next spurt of tremendous growth of industry - not 3D Printing neither IOT it is automatic operations management. Read why.
The technical debt metaphor is useful in capturing the long-term impacts of
tradeoffs taken during software maintenance between productivity (getting
something done sooner) and maintainability (degradation of the code's
quality over time). This webinar on Technical Debt will present
techniques and insights that help software engineers to identify and track
technical debt in their projects. We will outline how business and product
quality goals should affect the choice of approaches (and combinations of
approaches) for managing technical debt. More specifically, we will discuss
a set of automated approaches based on static code analysis that are likely
to spot problems in source code that have real impact on productivity and
defect proneness. Based on previous empirical studies, we will give further
advice on which types of debt can be found by these tools, and which types
are not yet detectable.
What is Technical Debt? It doesn't have to be negative, but it does have to be carefully managed. Here is a quick run-down of best practice to approaching Technical Debt management.
This "Slideument" is based on the presentation slides used for Sue Johnston's session on Personal Kanban at the IABC World Conference, June 9, 2014 in Toronto.
DevOps by Design -- Practical Guide to Effectively Ushering DevOps into Any O...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct discussion on some powerful best practices on making DevOps an accelerant to broader business goals, but at the level of a multigenerational IT activity.
Using Testing as a Service, Globe Testing Helping Startups Make Leap to Cloud...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a Briefings Direct podcast on how Globe Testing is pushing the envelope on Agile development and applications development management using HP tools and platforms.
Technical debt is often characterized as design or code tradeoffs. In this talk I discuss how shortcuts in requirements analysis might lead to technical debt as well.
www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-3-904
Effizienzsteigerung durch Prozessautomatisierung – ein Ausspruch, der sich durch unsere Geschichte zieht. Eindrucksvoll bereits durch Henry Ford in der industriellen Fertigung umgesetzt, lässt sich der dort geprägte Begriff des „Production Workers“ auch auf heutige Problemstellungen in der IT anwenden. Dies ist besonders dann der Fall, wenn etwa Angebotsprozesse, Urlaubsanträge, rechtlich bedingte Freigabeprozesse oder etwa Integrationsprozesse zur Erreichung einer einheitlichen Qualität auf immer identische Weise ablaufen sollen.
Doch liegt der tatsächliche Mehrwert einer Prozessautomatisierung tatsächlich nur in der Implementierung starrer Abläufe? Sind es nicht vielmehr die dynamischen Reaktionen, die in komplexen Sachverhalten und aufgrund plötzlich auftretender neuer Ereignisse das wahre Optimierungspotenzial in sich tragen? Warum durchbrechen automatisierte Prozesse nicht endlich den begrenzten Raum von Verbesserungen auf der Mikroebene, das heißt innerhalb von Abteilungen, und drängen in den Enterprise Bereich vor?
Im Rahmen der SOA, BPM und Integration Days 2012 in München stellten Hajo Normann (SOA & BPM Lead for ASG bei Accenture) und Torsten Winterberg (Manager Business Development & Innovation bei OPITZ CONSULTING) in ihrer Präsentation die Unterschiede zwischen Routine- und Wissensarbeit heraus und gingen dabei insbesondere auf den Businessnutzen adaptiver Prozesse ein. Des Weiteren stellten sie Konzepte zur Analyse und Notationen zur Dokumentation wissensintensiver Prozesse vor. Dieser Beitrag ist entstanden aus Arbeiten des Teams Masons-of-SOA, dem neben den beiden Referenten und anderen auch Danilo Schmiedel, SOA-/BPM-Experte und Senior Consultant bei OPITZ CONSULTING, angehört.
--
Über uns:
Als führender Projektspezialist für ganzheitliche IT-Lösungen tragen wir zur Wertsteigerung der Organisationen unserer Kunden bei und bringen IT und Business in Einklang. Mit OPITZ CONSULTING als zuverlässigem Partner können sich unsere Kunden auf ihr Kerngeschäft konzentrieren und ihre Wettbewerbsvorteile nachhaltig absichern und ausbauen.
Über unsere IT-Beratung: http://www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-8-10
Unser Leistungsangebot: http://www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-8-874
Karriere bei OPITZ CONSULTING: http://www.opitz-consulting.com/go/3-8-5
Technical Debt has become a catch-all phrase for any code that needs to be re-worked. Much like Refactoring has become a catch-all phrase for any activity that involves changing code.
These fundamental misunderstandings and comfortable yet mis-applied metaphors have resulted in a plethora of poor decisions.
What is technical debt?
What is not technical debt?
Why should we care?
What is the cost of misunderstanding?
With Large Workforce in the Field, Source Refrigeration Selects an Agile Plat...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect podcast on how a nationwide company has harnessed the power of mobile applications to increase the productivity of its workforce.
Whether we know it or not, every time we deliver a feature we also deliver technical debt. This debt remains largely invisible, it isn't tracked, it isn't visible on our information radiators and we very seldom tell our clients about it. The closest we come to acknowledging technical debt is bugs, mainly because our users tell us there is a problem, so we can't ignore it. Technical debt shouldn't be invisible, it's as real as the features we deliver and we should start treating it so. In this talk I propose a technical debt model which can be used when identifying technical debt, furthermore I propose a low friction technique for integrating technical debt into your current SDLC process.
Trigger for the next industrial revolutionLaxman Marathe
Get to know what will trigger the next spurt of tremendous growth of industry - not 3D Printing neither IOT it is automatic operations management. Read why.
New World Technologies 2020 and Beyond - PreviewBizzmaxx
Preview of my book “New World Technologies: 2020 and beyond” to be published in New York in August 2018. The target audience are Business & Technology Students, Professionals, Managers and Executives interested in Digital Transformation & Emerging Technologies. I’ve structured the content in four sections:
Section I is a holistic view of Digital Transformation which is causing many disruptions both in business and technology.
In Section II, I focus on Emerging Technologies like Blockchain, Internet of Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality. These technologies can be powered by Big Data and have impact in various industries.
In Section III, I focus on other Emerging Technologies such as 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, Drones and Robotics. Again, these technologies can be powered by Big Data and have impact in various industries.
Section IV is about Strategic Technology Planning, which helps to reduce complexity when starting a digital or technology project. My methodology here is a mix of SOSTAC® and Business Model Canvas.
#ManagementBook #DigitalTransfomation #EmergingTechnologies #TechnologyPlanning #Blockchain #InternetofThings #AugmentedReality #VirtualReality #3DPrinting #ArtificialIntelligence #Drones #Robotics
The tech recruiting tactics of long ago (headhunters and classified newspaper ads) simply don’t work anymore. Discover why these outdated practices don't work and how to create a more modern developer hiring strategy.
THE EMERGENCE OF COGNITIVE DIGITAL PHYSICAL TWINS
AS THE 21ST CENTURY ICONS AND BEACONS
AN IN-PROGRESS VISION, KEY CATEGORIES, APPLICATIONS
AND
A REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FRAMEWORK
Published in Nov. 2016. However, it evolved over time using my own practical experience as well as the incorporated the different technological advances we achieved since then.
I added the concept of Cognitive Digital Thread as a framework to collect and manage data and knowledge required for the twins. Also, the concept of Cognitive Digital Swarm has been developed to be the HM & MM collaboration framework.
How to design enterprise apps that sellInVision App
Your customers expect great UX from your enterprise app. So do you. With gnarly legacy code to wrangle, complex requirements to manage, and results to deliver, you need to have the right process. Arm yourself with techniques and methods to craft successful enterprise apps.
This in-depth webinar from Jessica Tiao of Kissmetrics gives you the tools, advice, and best practices you need to succeed.
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Week 6 Learning Resources
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Required Resources
Readings
· Haag, S., & Cummings, M. (2013). Management information systems for the information age (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Irwin.
Chapter 9, “Emerging Trends and Technologies: Business, People, and Technology Tomorrow” (pp. 256–285)
Enter your MyWalden user name: ([email protected]) and password (3#icldyoB1) at the prompt.
· Document:Final Paper Template (PDF)
· Document:Week 6 Discussion Template (Word document)
Management Information Systems for The Information Age
Haag, S., & Cummings, M. (2013). Management iriformation systems for the information age.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
SYSTEMS FOR THE INFORMATION AGE
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CHAPTER NINE OUTLINE
1. Describe the emerging trends and technologies that will have an impact on the changing
Internet.
2. Define the various types of technologies that are emerging as we move toward physiological
interaction with technology.
3. Describe the emerging trends of Near Field Communication, Bluetooth, WiFi, smartphones, and
RFID, as they relate to the wireless environment.
4. Define and describe emerging technologies that, while purely technology, can -and will impact
the future.
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Industry Perspective
Driving Girl Scout Cookie Sales with • Searching job databases
Smartphones
• Interviewing and negotiating tips
Industry Perspective • Financial aid resources
The Glasses-Free 3D Smartphone • Searching for MBA programs
Global Perspective • Free ~nd rentable storage space
Edible RFID Tags in Your Food • Global statistics and resources
Industry Perspective
E-Movies with You in Them
XLM/I Building an E-Portfolio
Extended Learning Module I provides you with hands-on instructions for the most appropriate
way to build an e-portfolio, an electronic resume that you publish on the Web in the hope of
attracting potential employers. Important issues also cover aspects of building a strong objective
statement and using strong action verbs to describe yourself and your accomplishments.
XLM/K Careers in Business
Extended Learning Module K provides an overview of job titles and descriptions in the
fields of accounting, finance, hospitality and tourism management, information technology,
management, marketing, productions and operations management, and real estate and
construction management including what IT skills you should acquire to be successful in each
field.
Emerging Trends and Technologies
Business, People, and Technology Tomorrow
OUTRAGEOUS INDUSTRY
TRANSFORMATION: THERE IS NO
LONGER ONE IN EVERY TOWN
It's one of the oldest institutions in this country.
Established in 1775, Ben Franklin became its first
leader. What organization are we talking about?
Of course, .
Track 09 - New publishing and scientific communication ways:
Electronic edition, digital educational resources
Authors: Ana Catarina Silva and Maria Manuel Borges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAdQkqUYROo&list=PLboNOuyyzZ86iI_x9SRTfV1KlSRX9DcEc&index=5
Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022.docxAdvance Tech
Strategic technology trends can be difficult to predict, but many technology observers think that the 2024 Olympics and the autonomous cars of the 2020s are inevitable.
Regardless, strategic technology trends can inspire companies and entrepreneurs looking to maximize their exposure and reach, increase their revenue, and drive new products and services.
Several technologies will be an important part of the 2022 strategy of any large firm, including software, cloud computing, and mobile technology.
A discussion that the following is the main focus on the impact of these technologies on the business functions of large firms and their future strategies. We finally brought together the sectors that will largely influence the future world economy in this post.
Strategic technology is the combination of strategic thinking, best practices, and financial effectiveness.
https://advancetech.info/gartners-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2022/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
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Outline Dream Presentatie
1. Outline Dream presentatie
Doelgroep: Requirements analisten, ~engineers, projectmanagers, kortom vakmensen
Te bereiken doel: Aandacht voor infrastructurele maatregelen om negatieve impact
moderne tooling teniet te doen.
Structuur presentatie:
Sheet 1: Titel, met Almost inkomend.
I have named this presentation Success despite tooling. Many of us have this idea that
tooling will make our life easier. I’m afraid I was a bit to optimistic. I should have added
Almost. I will tell you why.
At This seminar the previous speakers focussed on methods and techniques for
professionals to arrive at good and just requirements. I do not have the illusion to be able
to add something sensible to the previous speakers. So I’d like to focus on requirements
engineering from a slightly different perspective. Because there is another world, another
[KLIK] group of people that practice requirements engineering and software
development that are not present here at this moment. They do however greatly impact
the results we can achieve. And are getting better at it by the day. I do not regard
[KLIK] ourselves as dinosaurs, they however, maybe unconsciously, might do!
And maybe we are on the road to become extinct…
One of the discussions I had shortly was on the subject of the necessity of requirements
engineering at all. In this case a manager had drafted a business case, set out the scope of
the project and was, in his opinion, ready for software development. He had his business
requirements covered. Or so he thought.
Sheet 2 Musicians
[KLIK] I won’t tire you with specific project details but the effect was a bit like these 4
musicians coming to Holland via Schiphol Airport. Upon being asked where their
instruments were they had no answer (because they simply were not there, they had not
thought about bringing them along). Upon being asked where they were supposed to
[KLIK] perform they had no answer. In this case these ‘bolletjesslikkers’ utterly failed to
comprehend the requirements of being a musician, other than in appearance. And so it
was with this business case as well.
[KLIK]
As I will demonstrate new tooling is more and more about appearance. The question is
does this really matter?
In order to make my point about the other people that do requirements engineering and
with whom we have to reckon, I have to elaborate a bit on where we come from…..
Sheet 3 Eniac
2. [KLIK] As you all know, It all started in 1946 with ENIAC. Making software for this
machine (capable of 500 additions per second) was a specialty of mathematicians and
electronics engineers.
A quote from Wikipedia about the early years of computing:
The field was so new that the idea of management by schedule was non-existent. Making
[KLIK] predictions of a project's completion date was almost impossible. Computer
hardware was application-specific. Scientific and business tasks needed different
machines. Due to the need (another word for requirement) to frequently translate old
software to meet the needs of new machines, high-order languages like FORTRAN,
COBOL, PASCAL and ALGOL were developed. Hardware vendors gave away systems
software for free as hardware could not be sold without software. A few companies sold
the service of building custom software but no software companies were selling packaged
software. The notion of reuse flourished.
This quote is about the 1950’s. Now who says that
a) we haven’t made progress: we are able to predict more or less the result of a project,
and we are surely able to predict when and why we are not going to meet given deadlines
b) who says reuse is a new phenomenon.
c) the development of higher order languages is a process that is going on to this day,
with Java, C, Flash and other languages.
So back in those days requirements engineering was truly an engineering task.
Sheet 4 Silver Bullet/Software crisis
Automation really took off in the seventees, which is when automation entered normal
business practice and investments grew bigger and bigger. Until it started falling apart.
Projects with more than a 1000 people failed miserably, Budget overruns were a daily
[KLIK] fact of life. The only solution managers had was to add more people to the
project. As you can see this doesn’t always work. And if you read the newspapers today,
you might think what has changed? It all led to the so-called Software Crisis. It is then
[KLIK] [KLIK] that the idea of a Silver Bullet started to arise. A method, language,
tool, so powerful, to beat all others and deliver software correct, flawless, and timely. It
was also in this time that our profession of business analysis, information analysis and
requirements engineering came into existence. By the way Creating specialized roles
used to be a typical IT answer to emerging problems; when software maintenance
became cumbersome we introduced technical designers, when the gap with users became
too big we introduced functional designers and ourselves, when software proved
unreliable we introduced testing and aftercare. And it worked.
Eventually, after a decade or more, we learned that there was no single solution and that
project management, requirements engineering and software development was, is and
will be a complex task, requiring many skills and a lot of coordination.
We started doing smaller projects, learning to do them within budget and timely and we
even learned to set up a standard benchmark to quantify our efforts (FPA). The Jungle of
consultancy & software slowly turned into a recognized field of practice. We now have
certified Projectmanagers (IPMA-C), OTAP development factories, best practices,
patterns, there are codes of good software practice, Atos has its RDC (Requirements
Definition Centre) which we also use, and the BCS (British Computer Society) has 65000
3. members in over a 100 countries proud on being a chartered IT professional! We were
becoming proud on what we had achieved.
Sheet 5 The Internet
[KLIK] [KLIK] And then came the Internet.
And with the internet came tools like HTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Flash
etcetera. Internet, combined of course with the desktop at home, made it possible for
virtually anyone to create software to be used by many other people.
Where in 40 years we slowly learned to handle the technology gap between Us
professionals and Them users, we now see a new gap jumping into existence. A gap
between Us Professionals and Them Amateurs. And quite a different gap.
Our effectiveness has been greatly affected by these new technologies. Big companies are
usually slow in adopting new technologies, but with the Internet it’s not about a chance
for growth anymore. You are either in or out, not somewhere on the way. I hear my own
professionals complain that they have higher performance PC’s and development
software at home than in the office!
This revolutionary break down of traditional borders between Us Professionals and Them
Amateurs has also led to:
- Some Marketers are more able programming and understanding Internet Software
then some business analysts
- Some Customers even are more able then most Call Centre Agents and even some
Business Analysts
A few weeks ago a customer complaint was given to my department. This customer, a
[KLIK] well known figure in the Dutch Internet Society complained about a supposedly
wrong use of cookies by our Bank. The Call Center Agent really did not know how to
deal with this problem or with this customer? This was not about Banking affairs, or was
it? So when finally we investigated this problem we learned the customer was right. The
cookie setting was a result of our front office system Siebel, not being able to deal with
certain aspects of Internet. At least a few years back it was so. Nowadays Siebel could
cope with it, so we changed it, using the formal procedures.
Could we do without the Internet and forget this trend altogether? Could we safely
continue our profession and pretend nothing has happenend? I don’t think anyone of us
seriously believes that.
Sheet 6 The Banking world/Sox/crisis/TAbaksblatt en alle andere namen in beeld laten
komen.
Before I get into ways of bridging this gap let me get a bit specific for things that are
happening in the Banking world right now.
The period we are now living in is in fact not quite helpful in bridging this gap. I am now
[KLIK] specifically referring to the Banking World in which scandals and financial
disasters have led to ever increasing regulations aimed at being more ‘In Control’.
Combined with the perceived threat of terrorism it is Angst that rules.
[KLIK] So over the past few years we have seen MiFiD, SoX, Commissie de Ruyter I
and II, Basel I and II, SAS-70 (type I and II), Wft, Wet ter voorkoming van witwassen en
4. financiering van terrorisme (sorry can’t translate that) and Tabaksblat, last year, for the
Saints amongst us. And this list is far from being complete.
These laws led to very strict procedures for IT related investment decisions, documenting
requirements, formal handover procedures, testing, change and release management. And
Although the idea is that we are more ‘In Control’ It certainly has not done project
productivity any good. Not only do we need more people per line of code (all these
procedures have to be coordinated) we also see a dramatic increase in lead-time per line
of code (each procedure requires time in being processed). Finally with a look at the
outside world of Internet, it is fair to say our learning cycle has not shortened.
In the complaint situation I mentioned before it took me 2 days to analyze the problem, to
learn that it will take 3 days of testing to solve it, but with the formal resource allocation
process, adjusting the requirements specification, software delivery procedures and
release schedule we are tight to, it will take me 6 weeks before the customer will see the
solution of his complaint.
Sheet 7 Opsomming Zie hieronder
[KLIK] So where the Professionals in the Banking Industry have to meet general
Requirements like:
- In Control
- Go slow but Surely
- Learn before you Act
- Restricted budgets, many choices as a result of great amounts of legacy
[KLIK] We see the Marketing department acting in a very different environment (within
the same Banking Industry) having to meet another set of Requirements:
- Limitless Creativity
- Be faster than the Market
- Learn as you act
- Budget not so restricted, few choices and all of them ‘new’
The requirements I just mentioned are not specific requirements in any project or
campaign. They are more general requirements underlaying the specific ones. Also I am
[KLIK] not saying that one set is better than the other, all I am saying is that they do not
easily match. It is however in the match between these two that our professional added
value lies.
[KLIK] The Funny thing is, they are both about:
Image is everything Image is everything
[KLIK] (being reliable) [KLIK] (being hot)
When I say Marketing it is short for anyone that has a customer facing role in the
organization, be it in Marketing, Sales, Communications or Advertizing and PR.
Sheet 8 Professional and Amateur
[KLIK] So back to the gap between Us Professionals and Them Amateurs. Where has
this unbalance in requirements, made possible by emerging technologies and new tooling
led to? And please remember that in the days before Internet they really needed us, not
more so.
5. [KLIK] [KLIK] We have the classical waterfall way to develop front- mid- and back-
office systems. This is the domain where Professionalism reigns. And we have customer
facing systems where Marketing together with all kinds of Commercial Advertizing,
Marketing Advice start-ups come up with bright new ideas on a daily basis.
[KLIK] They bring ready-made applications with them to demonstrate new possibilities
of the Internet. The question then focuses on how to align the ready made application
with the wishes of the Marketing department of the Bank that is about to acquire them. If
requirements are being discussed it is quite at another level then we think of here at this
seminar. Can we have this in our company colours, I don’t like this control, what
listboxes can we use, can this object be animated, etcetera.
So they create Banners, Landingpages, Community sites, they think about Widgets and
other applications to seduce customers to visit the companies main website. In itself this
isn’t bad, however these parties do not have to meet the same quality standards as the
professionals within the Bank have to.
These bureaus are not completely aware, to put it mildly of things like the
BS7799 Information Security standard
Data integrity or consistency
Multi layer architecture
So it happens that a customer complaint lands on my desk in which a customer is mad
about a chat function he uses with our callcenter that doesn’t use HTTPS or SSL (by the
way, it’s the customer that uses these words). In other words his private discussion with
an agent in our call center about his investment portfolio is not that private at all. Now
this doesn´t really bother the developers involved as long as the chat application looks
sexy. It is sometimes at that moment (the complaint of a customer) that we learn such an
application exists.
Now I have a question for you
Do you recognize this? That Marketing, Communications, PR and the like departments
hire external agencies to develop fancy webbased applications? Can you raise some
hands please; who do recognize this?
If No; gee I cannot imagine we from Robeco supporting all these hundreds of start-ups..
If yes: I am glad you recognize this, coz I could not imagine we from Robeco supporting
all these hundreds of start-ups only by ourself.
As you may be aware by now I am not very positive about chances for a formal
department of Business Analyst in a big organization to be able to match the speed of
development of these free roaming start-ups using technologies that have yet to prove
themselves. Before we have mastered new tools to specify requirements for the next end-
user experience, in todays words RIA’s (Rich Internet Applications) using a tool like
Backbone (a 2006 technology), it becomes obsolete (in 2007) and is followed by Adobe
Flex. Whereupon our learning cycle has to start again, not to mention all procedures to
convince the senior management that this is really what we need. Ever tried convincing
ICT-management to buy into the latest Internet trend?
One of the arguments Marketing uses not to call in these type of applications with the
Professionals is that they are meant for single use over a short time-span.
6. And then of course, after the experience, some of these applications become so valuable
that Marketing sees a role for the application beyond a certain campaign. That is the
moment they turn to the Professionals and ask, could you please take over maintenance
from us, coz we are not the experts. And (this they do not tell you) we have a new bright
idea that requires our immediate attention. And we are going develop it exactly the same
way.
Of course there is no way such an application can be maintained, since there is no
documentation, it is programmed in WAS (Without Any Structure) or a language that is
not part of the software standards of the Bank, and the bright guys that programmed it
have left the start-up to start yet another start-up, so they cannot be elicitated.
And yes, on the other hand, enough software is created this way that indeed does become
obsolete after one campaign. Does it hurt? And if so, Where?
Sheet 9 Hurt/tangible/intangible.
[KLIK] First, yes it does hurt. I can name 3 areas of hurt:
- Internal Audit, worse then any formal banking authority, make it a habit to roam
the Internet looking for illegal company applications. If they find one they
scrutinize its specifications and when anything is determined to be wrong they
raise a new issue on the formal auditlist (the one that goes to the board) and
demand to solve it in a unrealistically short time-span. And who do they ask?
Never Marketing!
- [KLIK] Customers, The Public, The Media. If some sexy outside application
doesn’t work they will be the first to let the callcenter know. And those poor
bastards in the Callcenter do not know this application or site anymore then we
Professionals do. What we also see is that these external applications are less
reliable and are able to bring the companies website down, making it difficult to
be in control over our KPI’s like 99.5% availability. As a result also formal
Banking applications become subject to customer complaints.
- A third area is that of integration. At a bank I used to work for a campaign was so
successful that we received 350.000 responses. We were then asked the question
can you help us process these. This was asked at the moment that the halls of the
building were filled with boxes full of cardboard answering cards. No one had
thought about this part of the campaign.
Sheet 10 Opsomming zie hieronder
[KLIK] Does this sound like Success…does this sound like almost Success?, this sounds
like no success at all. However it is possible to take some measures, that will lead to
success with this whole new range of internet based tools and the Amateurs using them?
[KLIK] Centralize all budgets (so they can’t hire anyone outside us
Professionals)
[KLIK] Force them to comply to formal procedures (so put Compliance on their
back)
[KLIK] Get a Mandate to shut down illegal sites
[KLIK] Withdraw all Procuration (so they cannot buy new applications)
Now that would take care of matters like no other measure could.
7. [KLIK] However it would also ensure that Marketing and the like will never achieve
their set goals.
And lets be fair, if we were to regulate and control every move we made, if we had the
illusion we could control every risk perceived it would destroy innovation. Even a highly
innovative sector as the airplane industry complains about the abundance of risk
management, as you can read in this article.[KLIK] It states that it is often technology
push that creates the big breakthroughs. So how do we give room for technology push
and yet hold on to the idea of being In Control?
If the measures I just mentioned are not the answer. If this does not bring both sets of
Requirements together, what does? For we, the Professionals can moan and groan about
Marketing and the like not following, not sticking to our procedures, apparently we are
not making a good enough effort. And in the end requirements engineering is a service
we deliver that has to be appreciated to be wanted, to be bought.
So are there some ways in which we are able to help ourselves help Marketing? Do we
have or envision some more constructive measures?
Of course we do.
Sheet 11 Architectuur -> opsomming maatregel 1
Many campaigns focus on acquiring prospect or additional customer data in order to
make those customers a personalized investment offer. Within the context of a single
campaign where focus is on timing (be the first) and creativity (be original) there is no
room for an infra-structural solution. But since we know these questions appear time
upon time again, we could offer Marketing a solution whereby a prospect administration
is set-up and one or more flexible XML services can be created (with a well documented
[KLIK] specification). Now this service can be used in numerous campaigns to acquire
data. Of course the realization of such an infra-structural solution must be done outside
the scope and time pressure of any campaign.
[KLIK] The service that is thus created can be offered to different advertising agencies
and they can connect their tools.
Sheet 12 Porno/Bangladesh-> opsomming maatregel 1+2
Another argument used often by Marketing not to involve its own Business Alignment
department is that it doesn’t matter where the software runs, since it does not involve
customer portfolio data. That may be true for the banner and the landing page as such.
[KLIK] But a banner or landing page in a start-ups backroom maybe hacked. And then
the banner does not redirect to the Bank’s main site but to some pornographic content or
in the case of a Green fund to a child labour shipyard in Bangladesh. Since Marketing is
all about reputation and image this should worry them.
A second measure is to find a hosting party (outside the firewall of the Bank) that is well
aware of security demands of the banking industry and is able to meet them. If they can
certify they comply with BS7799 you know they meet the Banks security requirements.
[KLIK] Hosting at one single provider does not prevent Marketing in any way from
being creative, it does not hinder time-to-market and at the same time it does ensure that
security is met as well. Of course again as long as it is not the Bank itself that hosts this
site!
8. Sheet 13 Manuals & Facilities -> opsomming maatregel 1 + 2 + 3
A third measure to streamline the unstoppable Marketing endeavours, is to make clearly
written manuals that Marketing can hand over to the agencies she involves in her [KLIK]
assignments. These manuals should provide guidelines about software code of good
practice, documentation standards, surrendering test evidence. Making these manuals is a
requirements engineering task. Of course someone should be available to clarify these
guidelines. Preferably one of us. Other aspects of non-functional requirements can and
should be organized as facilities. What I intend to say is that what we wish Marketing to
comply to should be helpful, not a hindrance. Think f.i. about purchasing, security
guidelines, architecture and testing.
Sheet 14 Dialogue -> opsomming maatregel 1 + 2+ 3 + 4
Most important however is to be able to keep the dialogue open. The question here is
How do you get a Business Analyst at the (Executive) Marketing table?
Alan M. Davis remarks about this in Great Software Debates
Students of engineering learn engineering and are rarely exposed to finance or
marketing. Students of marketing learn marketing and are rarely exposed to finance or
engineering. Most of us become specialists in just one area. To complicate matters, few
of us meet interdisciplinary people in the workforce, so there are few roles to mimic. Yet,
software product planning is critical to the [business] development success and
absolutely requires knowledge of multiple disciplines.
So if you wish to be involved, and this is a very old truth, make sure you understand their
language, talk their language and make yourself visible.
[KLIK] In keeping the dialogue open we have learned to distinguish between 3 types of
applications:
- No data involved: banners, landingpages, webvertizements: Marketing and the
like are free to do as they please. Their own set of rules (corporate house style,
legal and financial compliance) is sufficient. The hosting party we have selected
is a sufficient guarantee that Banking regulations are met.
- Integration with back office systems required. F.i. in our case smart applications
that calculate and predict future return on investment on customer specific
portfolios. These are the applications where the Professionals are in the Driver
seat. Requirements engineering and software development all are done in
accordance with formal Banking procedures. And Marketing will simply have to
learn to plan involvement of Business Analysts in these cases earlier and better.
- Collection of data: smart applications that collect prospect and customer data.
This is the gray area where a choice has to be made between speed and
sustainability. More and more we come to the conclusion that it is possible to
combine both requirements. With some of the measures I have described above.
And surely you are able to come up with numerous others ways to combine both set of
requirements.
Sheet 15 Closure
I am getting to the end of my presentation.
9. [KLIK] Jack Welch made himself famous with numerous quotes, one of them is this one:
Change …. Before you have to
As I have said the world in which we endeavour in requirements engineering has
changed. We no longer hold a monopoly, business is sometimes in the driver seat
themselves. The speed of technology change and further new tools will only strengthen
this trend. It is a reality we have to cope with. We can see this as a threat to our existence,
or we can see this as a chance to improve ourselves. That in which we need to improve
[KLIK] ourselves is not new. I’m afraid it is a rather old message, It is still about:
- Understanding your clients’ business
- Meet their requirements.
- Take it up one level; don’t only answer to application needs, but also the
infrastructural needs underlying
With that we’re successful most of the time. And whether you work in a bank or
elsewhere makes no difference.
Thank you for your attention.
[KLIK] Sheet Questions.
10. [KLIK] Jack Welch made himself famous with numerous quotes, one of them is this one:
Change …. Before you have to
As I have said the world in which we endeavour in requirements engineering has
changed. We no longer hold a monopoly, business is sometimes in the driver seat
themselves. The speed of technology change and further new tools will only strengthen
this trend. It is a reality we have to cope with. We can see this as a threat to our existence,
or we can see this as a chance to improve ourselves. That in which we need to improve
[KLIK] ourselves is not new. I’m afraid it is a rather old message, It is still about:
- Understanding your clients’ business
- Meet their requirements.
- Take it up one level; don’t only answer to application needs, but also the
infrastructural needs underlying
With that we’re successful most of the time. And whether you work in a bank or
elsewhere makes no difference.
Thank you for your attention.
[KLIK] Sheet Questions.