Business Technology Consulting

I had lunch today with one of our Cincinnati customers and he made the comment that his company had eliminated a lot of costs via their IT applications.  He also said there was no more low hanging fruit in their IT applications.  Everything is integrated and there are no easy changes. I laughed and said there is nothing easy any more; even my easy button quit talking!

In today’s world some IT applications have grown quite complex.  It was not that long ago an application developer that knew business could do the business analysis, the technical design, program the application, test and implement it.
Enterprise IT applications today require a team of dedicated professional working together and a good process methodology.  Many members of the team are specialized in a particular skill or a part in the development process.

One of the things that is sometimes overlooked or gets glossed over is testing and quality assurance.  I have even heard developers say “why should I test, that’s what we have users for”.   Because systems have become so integrated and complex, quality assurance is not something to be taken lightly.  As a matter of fact, it is quickly becoming a specialty in and of its self.  There are many aspects to quality assurance, but one that I think we will be seeing a lot more of in the coming months and years is the notion of Test Data Management.   To be continued……….