Enterprise development is changing, and we need to change too
In this post, I'd like to address some changes I've been seeing in the way enterprise applications are developed, and how this affects how we, as enterprise developers, need to change along with that trend. We need to learn new skills, change the way we look at our every day job and the requirements it has. We're accustomed to working in an Agile way in our day to day lives, so look at this post as a retrospective of our own work, and the implications it has. Observing the history of the enterprise development world But let's start out with why I'm interested in these changes in the first place. My job at GROUP9, the company I work for, is twofold. Partly I'm a consultant working for our various clients, often in the role of architect, helping our clients in creating software solutions and in general becoming better at delivering these solutions. However, my other, internal, responsibility is that of competence manager. Basically that means ensuring our consul...