Gartner Application Architecture,
Development & Integration Summit

Track D: The Next Generation Application Development – How Services, Agile, and the Cloud Simplify Enterprise Solutions

Economic, social and technology changes are forcing enterprises to re-examine and re-tool their business processes while forcing IT to break out of old delivery models. IT leaders are hungry to identify which products, practices, and services are most relevant, providing the right combination of quality, productivity, and business agility; furthermore, they are challenged to absorb a continuous stream of innovations including cloud computing, web and service oriented architecture, and new development methodologies. Business managers are expecting IT to be more collaborative and agile in response to their own new opportunities and threats. These IT and business opportunities must be adapted, integrated, and balanced with existing processes, platforms, tools, and legacy investments. IT leaders must understand not only how to make the right selections, but also how to implement them from a people and process perspective – especially in terms of the impact on application development and transitioning the application portfolio forward. This track helps IT leaders learn how to “make it so”.

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Sessions

The New Gartner IT Market Clock: Assessing the Risk of Your AD Technologies From Cradle to Grave

New IT capabilities constantly appear in the market, but their adoption requires integration into a portfolio of existing – sometimes mature - IT assets. From a budget standpoint, the new products/services often can only be adopted if others are retired or replaced. Gartner's IT Market Clock is a new research framework, complementary to the Hype Cycle, that aims to provide a full life cycle view of technology assets. Simplistically put, the Hype Cycle supports "technology hunting" decisions, while the IT Market Clock supports "farming" decisions for existing assets.

The Three Cs of Agile

Continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous deployment - What do they really mean?

Rapid Fire: Developers and Architects: Never the Twain Shall Meet?

In many organizations, developers and architects seem to inhabit separate worlds, with different priorities and behaviors, despite being cut from the same cloth. How can architects be in touch with the real-world issues developers face? How can development teams adapt their skills, processes and vocabulary to meet SOA and other architectural demands? In this session we’ll discuss practical ways of “making the twain meet”.

Agile 2.0: The Rise of Enterprise Agile

Agile development has reached the tipping point with adoption rates rising in all verticals. At the same time, agile and lean principles and practices are being blended with more traditional methods and management processes. This convergence of development and management philosophies is the basis of Agile 2.0.

Development Platforms & Languages - From the Leading Edge to Market-Leading Tools

Development platforms (Microsoft .NET, Java...) and a range of programming languages make up the core of any application development (AD) strategy and dictate the scope and stability of long-term IT investments. Here we examine the latest trends in AD platforms and languages, the environments they are leveraged within, and the business solutions they support; we pay particular attention to the ones best-capable of supporting next-generation SOA and cloud-centric challenges.

Rapid Fire: Apptrepreneurship: Your Next Great Software Delivery Model?

The maturation of SOA, the emergence of cloud computing, the shift to agile AD, and growing interest in mobility and context-aware computing are converging in the next great software business model. Apptrepreneurs are selling us enhancements to our iPhones and extensions to our SaaS. These craftsmen are attacking the growing addressable market for apps delivered on-demand. We explore the disruptive nature of Apptrepreneurship, and discusses how your organization can monitor and capitalize on its opportunities.

Case Study: TBD

Mobile Application Development, Context, and The Emergence of Ensemble Programming

As the mobile application development matures and converges with the Web, application designers it will soon evolve into developing user experiences across an even broader range of situations and devices Enterprises need to be able to deal with the fragmentation of the wireless technology stack. Mobile application development is maturing and. CIOs, project and application development managers, software vendors, and technology providers need to recognize and prepare for this trend. By 2013, ensemble programming will emerge as a new discipline in response to is application development targeted at creating user experiences that can sense and extend from one to two or more devices, in offering context-aware, branded and interactive experiences that complement their core products and services.

Cloudy With a Chance of Quality

As organizations shift to RIA and Cloud technologies the challenge of ensuring that applications work increases dramatically. This session will provide a roadmap to quality issues and ways to leverage the cloud to drive quality. Topics will include peaky loads, cross browser compatibility, driving quality earlier in the life-cycle and new solutions that address the unique challenges and opportunities of cloud computing.

Web and Cloud Development 2015: Prepare for Shifting Sands

A slew of new development techniques, platforms and methodologies are arriving in the enterprise. From NoSQL, to public WOA APIs, to mobile devices, to cloud computing and beyond, the sands of the enterprise Web AD landscape are shifting. How quickly IT leaders learn to manage these new approaches will determine how much competitive advantage they provide to the enterprise.

Case Study: TBD

Case Studies--Ultra Lean, But Still Extreme

If you had to staff a project reaching 4 million paying customers logging in every month, uploading 10 million content objects per month, how many people would you assign? One successful site is able to accomplish this task (both development and operations) with just a single engineer. Another successful site has a staffing ratio of one developer per million users. How do they do it? How many goats and/or SLAs need to be sacrificed to make this happen?

IT & Business Collaboration: SOA, BPM, and MDM

Historically, most organizations have built and maintained their applications and data in silos, with limited sharing depending largely on local politics, culture, and economics. Three complementary initiatives are increasingly bringing a focus on sharing: Master Data Management (MDM), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM), But there is often little coordination among the architects, analysts and designers, and a lack of attention to the growing participation of business users.

Overwhelming complexity is driving enterprises to re-examine their business processes while forcing IT to break old solution delivery habits. Application architects, developers, and managers must understand how to scale agile development methodologies, renew the application portfolio with web- and service-oriented application design and architecture, and simplify application development with more productive and dynamic platforms and languages. This track will help IT leaders to understand not only how to make the right selections, but also how to implement them from a people and process perspective.