Lets face it, scope and requirements of a system changes all the time. Between requirements gathering and development or during development and testing or even after go live, the situation changes. Just an example, a couple of colleagues and myself are building a new enterprise tool for the organisation we are working with and even before the proof of concept is completed, there were request for us to increase/change the scope slightly. With so many changes in place, how can the software adapt itself to the ever changing business environment?
With SaaS, SOA, simplified programming languages like Ruby on Rails, Agile development and so on, software has been increasing adaptive to the organisation. It seems that as long as the organisation is willing to spend, developers can almost do anything. I believe the biggest challenge in IT nowadays is not delivering the the software anymore but to manage the change within the organisation and educate people on the new functionality / system.
Its not about what systems you can build now but how fast you can adapt to what you have designed.
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1 Michael // Mar 16, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hence all adaptive web applications are always “BETA”, in the sense to match the changing scopes of the application.
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