Lean, Agile, Visual Management from the Trenches
Recently, I got asked this question by a prospect – a large bank’s SEPG head. Their exact question was – How does Digité help with the developer experience? Clearly, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools have made the life of the PMO, the SEPG, the Quality group, the Project Managers and the executive management better. But how do they benefit the folks doing the actual development?!
Many of our customers ask the question – why have ALM tools not become a project necessity? Why are they not more “visible”? Are you one of those still wondering if YOU need one? Let me give you some real data from our own example using Digité Enterprise to help you decide.Our code base is 1.4M LOC, certified on 2 databases, 2 app servers on 2 Operating Systems. That means 8 stack combinations, ignoring that we run on both IE and FF.
I have spent a lot of time over the last 10 years discussing or working with a large number of our customers who have moved away from the ‘traditional’ methods of managing software projects to a more centralized and “institutional” method. An overwhelmingly large number of these companies have evaluated Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tools as their first option for moving away from their disparate solutions, which usually would be a combination of MS Project on the desktop, email, spreadsheets and a lot of hand-waving!
The topic of Requirements and Change Management continues to spark enthusiastic debate and discussion amongst the software community. And for obvious reasons! I was talking to an industry analyst recently – and he himself drew attention to the fact that software requirements are so hard to do, unlike a bridge or a tunnel or building – where requirements were so much easier to define. Absolutely!
Came across this wonderful presentation on product design by Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path. Please take some time to go through it as it will certainly be useful to you at some point in your career. Here are my notes from the presentation. These points would be much more clear if you see the presentation where Peter gives some very interesting examples to support it…
I had the pleasure of attending the second annual product conclave conference organized by NASSCOM. This year I was not only an attendee but a speaker too. The conference was held on August 11th and 12th at the Grand Ashok hotel in Bengaluru. This year there was much more participation than last year which was the inception year for product conclave conference.
Digite definitely led the wave of Process Improvement on the beautiful shores of Tampa Bay. Although, I can assure you our feet never had the time to touch the beautiful sands of the pristine Florida beaches! Our time was overwhelmed with interested parties from the United States, Europe, South America, Asia and parts unknown (California?). Even though this was SEPG North America, the rest of the word was very well represented!
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