Creating simple IT solutions is challenging, but that doesn’t mean your product has to be difficult to use. Too often, we are confronted with seemingly simple tasks like creating a document, ordering a ticket, booking a hotel, or completing a mandatory government form online. Why do these simple tasks turn out to be a nightmare and time sink?
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Nobody ever asks for a complex IT solution. We all love simple IT solutions.
Continue reading “Simplify IT”Solving complex IT problems
In order to solve complex IT problems new technology can help.
Almost everyone in tech agrees that Large Language Models (like ChatGPT) are a generational change in what we can do with software. It feels like the blockchain and bitcoin hype all over again.
Continue reading “Solving complex IT problems”Complex versus Complicated
The meaning of complex and complicated is fuel for discussions. Especially when using machine learning technology. So simple advice: Keep it simple:
Continue reading “Complex versus Complicated”Creating agile solutions
Business IT solutions must be flexible.Inflexible business IT software can and will slowly stop your current business. The time needed to change your systems so it fits the current demands of your customers is often too long and too expensive.
Continue reading “Creating agile solutions”Continuous business IT innovation
Every business needs to keep innovating. But when you develop new products, services or business models: Problems will occur.
Continue reading “Continuous business IT innovation”Keep it simple: First a POC than a MVP
To build and test new functionality for your customers you can create a POC (Proof Of Concept) or develop a MVP (Minimum Viable Product). But creating a MVP from scratch is often not simple, since quality aspects such as security and privacy can rise severe realisation challenges.
Continue reading “Keep it simple: First a POC than a MVP”Feature rich or feature poor solutions
Research learns that businesses frequently choose products with too many features that they later find difficult to use or will not be used at all. Feature rich software products are often fuel for business complexity.
Continue reading “Feature rich or feature poor solutions”Customers do not ask for software complexity
Asking for software complexity is insane. Nobody wants software solutions that are complex. It is comparable with smart cities, intelligent lockdowns and safe banks. Nobody wants stupid cities, governmental panic measurements to fight covid-19 or a bank that can not be trusted with handling money.
Continue reading “Customers do not ask for software complexity”Does Spotify Backstage make development simpler?
On my continuous journey for simplifying business IT, I recently noticed a new apparently promising FOSS product. Spotify Backstage. Spotify Backstage is a FOSS product developed at Spotify.
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