bac annual conference 2004 andy pols pols consulting limited [email protected]
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Technology is not the most important innovation!
Technology is (relatively) easy! The hard part of IT is people. People need to stop focusing on the
latest technical fad and start improving the way they communicate and work together.
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Traditional Waterfall approach does not work for complex problems
Winston Royce"Managing the Development of Large SoftwareSystems")
There’s no feedbackuntil it’s too late
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The classic solution does not work
“Fire, fire, fire, fire, aim again, fire, fire, fire--there is no time for ‘ready’.”Gary Hamel, Leading the Revolution Ready, ready, ready, aim, aim, aim... fire.Waterfall approach…
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The business and the IT speak different languages
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The Design Process!From Kevin Tate’s ADC lectureFrom Kevin Tate’s ADC lecture
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B - Planned ResultA - Start
C - Desired Result
Following a plan does not give you what you need.
Thanks to Jim HighsmithThanks to Jim Highsmith
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Agile software development tries to address these issues Get a real user directly involved. Produce shippable functionality early
and often. Reflect on and improve the delivery
process. Get most of the bureaucracy out of the
way. Have automated regression tests.
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Simplicity Villains in James Bond films never do the
simplest that could possibly work - John Brewer
Two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies,and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. - A. R. Hoare
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Google is a simple to use Archive system
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Google Tolerates spelling mistakes
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Google on Britney Spears488941 britney spears
40134 brittany spears
36315 brittney spears
24342 britany spears
7331 britny spears
6633 briteny spears
2696 britteny spears
1807 briney spears
1635 brittny spears
1479 brintey spears
1479 britanny spears
1338 britiny spears
1211 britnet spears
1096 britiney spears
991 britaney spears
991 britnay spears
811 brithney spears
811 brtiney spears
664 birtney spears
+ 500 other variations
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Google Tolerates spelling mistakes
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Most businesses struggle with Synonyms
What does product mean to an airline? Marketing think it’s a cabin. Sales think it’s a seat. Revenue Management think it’s a route Scheduling and operations think it’s a
flight number… Etc., etc.
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Your own personal Google
Google is the natural archive technology It’s easy to use and understands natural
language. It’s easy and handles spelling mistakes Knows how to analyse images. They are always looking for new
markets… looks like a natural fit to me.
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More advance pattern matching algorithms
That can analyse and search photographs and digitized manuscripts.
I wanted to search images based on emotions for an article I was writing. I found picture libraries difficult to use.
Improved had writing recognition to scan and process faxed based invoices.