Software Wasteland: How the Application-Centric Mindset is Hobbling our Enterprises

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Dave McComb

Software Wasteland

How the Application-Centric Mindset is Hobbling our Enterprises

Dave McComb

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Technics Publications LLC
26 February 2018

Knowledge management; Enterprise software; Software Engineering

Know whats causing application development waste so you can turn the tide. This is the book your Systems Integrator and your Application Software vendor dont want you to read. Enterprise IT (Information Technology) is a $3.8 trillion per year industry worldwide.

Most of it is waste.

We've grown used to projects costing tens of millions or even billions of dollars, and routinely running over budget and schedule many times over. These overages in both time and money are almost all wasted resources. However, the waste is hard to see, after being so marbled through all the products, processes, and guiding principles. That is what this book is about. We must see, understand, and agree about the problem before we can take coordinated action to address it.

The trajectory of this book is as follows: In Chapter 1, we explore how bad the current state is. The three industries that address software waste are discussed, including the legacy software industry, neo-legacy software industry, and legacy modernization industry. Examples of application waste are illustrated from both public and private sectors. In Chapter 2, we explore the economics of the software industry. Although the economic tradeoffs are changing at the speed of Moores Law, our approaches are not keeping pace. Learn how information systems really behave in terms of actual application development. In Chapter 3 we use root cause analysis to reveal the real contributors to this situation, which are dependency, redundancy, complexity, and application centricity. Chapter 4 recounts the many failed attempts weve made in the past to deal with information system complexity, including relational databases, ERP systems, enterprise data modeling, service oriented architectures, and APIs, Agile, data warehouse and business intelligence, outsourcing and offshoring, cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS), data lakes, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Chapter 5 dismantles seven fallacies that contribute to our remaining stuck. For example, the first fallacy is We need detailed requirements or we wont get what we want. The quagmire is not affecting all sectors of the economy equally. Chapter 6 looks at how this is playing out in the government and private sectors, large and small companies, and various parts of the IT industry itself. Chapter 7 outlines some action you can take now to begin to extricate yourself, including a detailed assessment and defining metrics for measuring and preventing software development waste.

By: Dave McComb
Imprint: Technics Publications LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9781634623162
ISBN 10: 1634623169
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 26 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dave McComb is the author of the bestseller, Software Wasteland, and the President and co-founder of Semantic Arts, a consulting firm that helps organizations uncover the meaning of the data from their information systems. For 20 years, Semantic Arts has helped firms of all sizes in this endeavor, including Procter & Gamble, Goldman Sachs, Schneider-Electric, Lexis Nexis, Dun & Bradstreet and Morgan Stanley. Prior to Semantic Arts, Dave co-founded Velocity Healthcare, where he developed and patented the first fully model driven architecture. Prior to that, he was part of the problem.