Summit Tracks
The New Applications Development Agenda
The accelerating pace of change is putting pressure on the capabilities of the AD organization, while at the same time the technologies used to develop and deliver solutions are fragmenting. In addition, there are new capabilities and risks coming from advances in cloud services, social media, mobile platforms, and consumerization. This track explores the new AD agenda with focused advice on how to build, manage, and run tomorrow’s custom application solutions. Key Issues: -How is mobile, social, and context-aware computing likely to impact the future of the enterprise AD organization from a technology and methodology perspective? -How will cloud computing transform the role and capabilities of enterprise AD? -How can enterprise AD organizations make best use of agile practices that support rapid iteration and innovation?
Sessions
The Future of AD
29 November, 2011 (10:15 AM - 11:00 AM)
Technological, cultural, and economic shifts are combining to force business change at a breakneck pace. These changes necessitate that AD deliver solutions better, faster, cheaper. IT leaders must selectively embrace new platforms and processes to ensure that the enterprise captures appropriate value from its AD initiatives.
The Future of Mobile Application Development: A Movement Toward Multichannel and Ensemble Programming
29 November, 2011 (11:15 AM - 12:15 PM)
Fragmentation and chaos will be the norm in the mobile market through 2014. IT leaders need to be able lead projects to construct best in class mobile applications today that will evolve into multichannel experiences across a multitude of devices tomorrow.
DevOps: Building the Bridge for Agile Environments
29 November, 2011 (02:15 PM - 03:15 PM)
Effective movement of code through the stages from conception to production has always had its challenges. Agile practices, emphasizing more frequent builds and releases, drive new behaviors and practices with respect to release management. This session will focus on DevOps , building more-efficient integration between the application development teams and their counterparts in production control. DevOps practitioners can review the release management processes in ITIL for ideas and define formal process based on their unique requirements that coordinates the introduction of changes to the production environment. The benefits of formalizing the work include standardization of approaches, scalability, metrics, reporting and continual process improvement.
Agile Outsourcing: Real or a Dream?
30 November, 2011 (08:30 AM - 09:30 AM)
As more and more organization look to adopt agile it becomes harder to decouple agile from your outsourcing strategy. This leads to question is agile outsourcing really possible for all but the most trivial projects? And if it possible how and who with.?
Application Development and Application Life Cycle Management in the Cloud
30 November, 2011 (02:00 PM - 03:00 PM)
Cloud technologies present not only a disruption to the applications we develop but also to how we develop them. This session looks at how Application Lifecycle Management tools and practices are affected by tools delivered in SaaS and PaaS formats, the emergence of DevOps and lab management, and how these solutions will improve the ability to deliver better software faster. ALM tools aid in the planning and management of application projects and are key enablers of effective collaborative development. As tools move toward becoming cloud-based platforms they reduce the cost of implementation but are also altering the way we think about integration of tools and teams.
Case Study: The Consumerization of Application Development — Healthways
01 December, 2011 (10:30 AM - 11:30 AM)
Consumer technology is changing the expectations for applications and application development (AD) teams. Consumerization cannot be stopped, but it can embraced to drive more value from AD investment. This session will be an overview of Gartner’s view of how Consumerization is impacting application development, followed by Nathan King, Senior Product Portfolio Manager, Healthways (Nasdaq: HWAY) detailing how they empowered end-users to safely create enterprise applications for themselves.
Rich Mobile, Mobile Web, or Something In Between?
01 December, 2011 (12:30 PM - 01:30 PM)
Rich Mobile applications (RMA) provide an excellent user experience. Unfortunately, using native tools and technologies, rich mobile applications designed for one platform are not portable to any other. For most organizations, designing rich mobile applications for multiple platforms using native tools and technologies is cost prohibitive. Advancements in web technologies and cross platform mobile development frameworks offer the promise of portability with a user interface that rivals a RMA.
Composite Applications: The Applications That Support Innovation
01 December, 2011 (01:45 PM - 02:45 PM)
Innovative applications support transformational business initiatives or enable established business processes in a way that radically improves results while serving as a barrier to entry for competitors. Going forward, both types of innovative applications will almost always be composites.
