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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008. Social media was just coming into its own.

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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

In most sectors where risks are understood and perceived as critical, quality assurance inevitably develops. It also led me to write a book about web quality assurance and the forewords of eight more books about UX, ecodesign, CSS, frontend development, amongst others. By the way, now I like wine, from everywhere. Large preview ).

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. However, unlike the early days of the web, static sites are no longer limited to developers working in a code editor.

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Investing in Strategic Capability versus Buying Tactical Capacity

The Agile Manager

The increase in global IT sourcing is outpacing the rate of development of highly-qualified professionals in many markets 2 – salaries are increasing as there are more jobs chasing fewer high-qualified candidates, and turnover of IT staff is rising as people pursue higher compensation. one organisation’s senior developer is another’s junior).