Software development teams following an agile process to incrementally develop, build, deploy and release enterprise applications quickly find that keeping track of all of the components and inter-dependencies becomes unmanageable. Spreadsheets become laborious to maintain and do not track the process and keep a record of who did what. Release Coordination solutions such as UrbanCode… Read More »
Continuous Integration and other modern code development practices seek to manage scale and complexity, and increase speed and quality, by introducing automation across the software development life cycle (SDLC). This is especially true of areas that occur frequently and contain many repetitive steps such as the deployment and release processes. Development teams tend to build… Read More »
Mobile adoption is important to the banks that I have been speaking with. With the investment that goes into the deployment of a mobile banking or mobile payments solution, reputations are on the line. The importance of trust in the entire value chain is amazing to me. Ground zero for where trust affects everything is… Read More »
The PCI Security Standards Council provides the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Certain organizations including financial services providers need to be compliant with this standard as evidence that they protect payment card holder data (CHD). The first step to applying the standard is to determine the portion of the IT environment where the standard… Read More »
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The IT group is usually tasked with designing new applications. I am not sure I advocate that but that is what I have seen in practice at banks. Therefore, I categorize User Centered Design as an IT Capability. The following diagram lifted from Modern Web Development with IBM WebSphere gives a feel for what User… Read More »
I feel a little crazy listing JavaScript as a strategic technology — Even more crazy enumerating the related frameworks and libraries, which seem to replace each other far too frequently to be considered “strategic”. But I want to make the point that how you build Web applications (including mobile Web and hybrid apps) can have… Read More »
When you start out to create a cloud-based app it helps to understand the environment that it will run including the components that are external to it as well as the framework and runtime components that are integral to it. An app runs both on the device (client) and in the cloud (server) and invokes… Read More »
I dream of having time on my hands. Ah, what would I do to occupy myself if I was a high-school kid dreaming to get a start in software development? Knowing what I know now about how complicated developing software can get, I would try to do something very simple. In fact, I would want… Read More »