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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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Complexity by design: Survivorship bias
It is good practice that for large business IT projects plans are made. Plans are made to control cost, resources and also to steer design and realization. Most of the time this is where things get complex. So you get complexity by design.
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Why Simplify IT?
Simple IT solutions can grow towards unmanageable systems. In the end even a small change involves business analysts, IT engineers and often a lot of managers to figure out if and how a change can be implemented with minimal risks and business impact. Calling buzzwords like devops, scrum, agile and lean do not bring a solution closer.
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Good Software
Simple solutions require very good software. But good software is very challenging. Hard to create and often expensive and complex. But there is good news: For almost every business IT problem good open (FOSS) software exist.
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