IT technology Top Ten

Michael Cooney has posted Gartner's Top Ten for IT technology:

The Top 10 Trends and their impact, briefly include:

1. The evolution of virtualization: ... virtualization will ultimately drive more companies to treat IT [more] like a business. [Perhaps, but virtualization will more likely continue to change our idea of borders and boundaries, making them more virtual than real]

2. Big data, patterns and analytics: Unstructured data will grow some 80% over the course of the next five years, creating a huge IT challenge.

3. Energy efficiency and monitoring: The power issue has moved up the food corporate food chain.... An average x86 server that is turned on, but idle, will draw upward of 65% of its nameplate wattage, for example. 

4. Context aware apps: ...  context-based computing will go beyond the business intelligence applications and truly make a unified communications environment possible .

5. Staff retention and retraining: Loyalty to one company is not a quality found in new workers.

6. Social networks:    Ignoring social networking is not an option

7. Consumerization: The key trend here is the fact that new application types will be developed to address mobile users but they won't be desktop replacement applications. 

8. Compute per square foot:  ... average server performance can move from today's paltry 7% to 12% average to 40% to 50%, yielding huge benefits in floor space and energy savings. 

9. Cloud computing ...the biggest benefits of cloud computing are built-in elasticity and scalability.

10. Fabrics: Gartner defines this infrastructure convergence as: The vertical integration of server, storage, and network systems and components ...

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Todd's Tech Bites - 2 Best Value

Well, the second round of Todd's Tech Bites is available on slideshare.net, and also the audio track is on podbean.com.

In this segment, Todd interviews me about my number 2 point about agile methods: agile is a methodology that delivers best value.

The main points are these:

The sponsor/investor controls the purse stings and the major milestones, setting the investment goals for the project.

The customer gets to vote how to spread the investment resource over the functions and features that are most valuable and most important to the customer community.

The project manager and the performance teams control the mechanics of executing on the investment, respecting the value judgments of the customer, and creating a match between the sequencing constraints, the sponsor milestone needs, and the customer's sense of urgency.

If you want to hear and see more, check out the Tech Bite 2 slidecast at slideshare.net.

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Todd's Tech Bites -1

Recently, I had the opportunity to be a guest on Todd's Tech Bites, a podcast-slideshow about various technical topics.

Our first get together was on agile methods, and specifically my thoughts on the top five ideas I put together in my new book, just released this month, "Project Management the Agile Way--Making it work in the enterprise".

Todd Ruopp, a co-founder at Unleashing Performance, Inc, is an inquisitive interviewer, and I had a good time talking with him.

In this first interview, we touched on my five points for agile, and then we got more into Point # 1: Leadership and Management in the agile space.  In a word: leadership drives innovation; management coaches for successful outcomes!

Check out our slidecast on slideshare.net

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