As companies proceed with their digital transformations, software becomes increasingly strategic and pervasive – which means they need more of it. Lots more.
The word ‘backlog’ originally meant a large log at the back of the hearth.
The demand for new and updated applications and software infrastructure as well as individual features and capabilities is exploding. And yet, every such company is resource constrained, as professionals who are able to build and run such software are in short supply.
The obvious economic effect of such increased demand in the face of constrained supply is an increase in salaries – but paying developers and other software professionals more doesn’t solve the problem. It just moves the problem around.
The more significant economic impact, in fact, is a push toward greater productivity and efficiency – putting the pros you have on more important tasks and giving them the tools and techniques they need in order to build and run software better and faster.
In the meantime, however, enterprises have little choice but to add to their extensive software to-do lists. These backlogs, as the industry calls them, can get long and unmanageable – and the pressures of digital transformation combined with the perennial shortage of skills makes this problem worse.
Read the entire article at https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2018/06/21/dont-let-your-application-backlog-sink-your-digital-transformation/.
Intellyx publishes the Agile Digital Transformation Roadmap poster, advises companies on their digital transformation initiatives, and helps vendors communicate their agility stories. As of the time of writing, Betty Blocks, Kintone, and OutSystems are Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx customers. Image credit: Barry Skeates.
