What Gartner Is Telling Your Boss

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 27, 2006 @10:10AM from the rad-bad-portfolios-good dept.

Littlewink writes, "Esther Schindler's latest analysis reveals what Gartner is telling your boss at their annual conference. Excerpts: '"The future of application development is not about programmer productivity," said [Gartner analyst] Hoyle during the keynote presentation, "but in assembling functionality from components." [Gartner analyst] Veccio stated "Why would you ever code an app from scratch again? Why would you need to?"' According to Schindler (who does not 'drink the Kool-Aid'), Gartner urges managers to consider better process control and governance, managing 'application portfolios' much as they do stock portfolios. Part of this discipline is 'killing development projects early and often.'"

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Re:Gartner tells my boss whatever anyone pays em 2 by QuickFox · 2006-09-27 12:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

I see more time and money spent WASTED on meetings to put together paperwork...

Wasted? Clearly you have misunderstood the purpose of the meetings and the other process arrangements. The purpose isn't to produce software! The purpose is to give employment to people who wouldn't have employment were it not for the meetings, buzzwords etc.

the actual work to be done and deliverables to be produced are merely a nagging side item.

So you did understand after all.

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