🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry

“The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to transform the current application, which was manually built, on-premise, and converting that into infrastructure as code,” says Niculescu. “So we essentially took what would be manually-built environments that would usually take us weeks and months and numerous contract amendments to essentially grow and scale environments, and transformed it so that we could do them within the day – but now we can do all of this within 40 minutes, roughly.

🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry

“The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to transform the current application, which was manually built, on-premise, and converting that into infrastructure as code,” says Niculescu. “So we essentially took what would be manually-built environments that would usually take us weeks and months and numerous contract amendments to essentially grow and scale environments, and transformed it so that we could do them within the day – but now we can do all of this within 40 minutes, roughly.

🗂 Link: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle

Too often, leaders think of a business case as a one-time checklist item. But the best practice — which will increase your likelihood of success — is to think of a business case as a lifecycle, an iterative process that involves many stakeholders and steps. This lifecycle has five phases: Source: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle

🗂 Link: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle

Too often, leaders think of a business case as a one-time checklist item. But the best practice — which will increase your likelihood of success — is to think of a business case as a lifecycle, an iterative process that involves many stakeholders and steps. This lifecycle has five phases: Source: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle

Banking "disruption," or whatever - part 01

There’s near universal sentiment that traditional banks need to shift to improve and protect their businesses against financial startups, so called “FinTechs.” These startups create banks that are often 100% online, even purely as a mobile app. The release of Apple Pay highlights how these banks are different: they’re faster, more customer experience focused, and innovate new features. The core reason FinTechs can do all of this is because they’re good at creating well designed software that feels natural to people and allows these FinTechs to optimize the banking experience and even start innovating new features.

🗂 Link: Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com

De Volkskrant spoke with fifteen (former) employees of the company in recent months. In the piece ' Bookings burn-out machine' from the Saturday supplement, which can also be found online - the developers complain about programming language Perl, which forms the basis of the online platform and which they believe is being held too rigidly. According to an anonymous source, criticism of Perl may even be dismissed. The developers understand that a company that originated at the end of the 1990s carries a certain legacy , but according to the ex-employees there is a ‘barely untangled tangle of millions of lines of code’, the newspaper summarizes

🗂 Link: Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com

De Volkskrant spoke with fifteen (former) employees of the company in recent months. In the piece ' Bookings burn-out machine' from the Saturday supplement, which can also be found online - the developers complain about programming language Perl, which forms the basis of the online platform and which they believe is being held too rigidly. According to an anonymous source, criticism of Perl may even be dismissed. The developers understand that a company that originated at the end of the 1990s carries a certain legacy , but according to the ex-employees there is a ‘barely untangled tangle of millions of lines of code’, the newspaper summarizes

🗂 Link: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover

"By 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools for both IT application development and citizen development initiatives," the report said. "By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65 percent of application development activity." Source: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover