Many business analysts spend most of their time in meetings documenting business process requirements, explaining what they mean to developers, waiting for weeks and then figuring out why the implementation didn't match the documentation, rinse and repeat endlessly!...
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was recently in "stormy weather" because of a major computer system failure. As per BBC News: "US air safety officials say that the glitch that led to travel chaos at airports last week was actually caused by a contractor...
There is a lot of hype in the news about the step change in AI technology with major companies talking about how AI will be a game changer for their business. The challenges facing many organizations today are: how will we incorporate AI into our products to drive...
Application Shelf Life and Technology Expiry Dates Most organizations use forms-based custom software applications that have hard-coded the business functionality. These applications are implemented on a set of specific technologies: source code in one (or more)...
There are many good use cases for No Code / Low Code technology when building simple applications that collect and maintain records for a few simple forms. Most of these technologies include some form of a canvas designer where Citizen Developers can drop and style...
What is Technical Debt and where does it live? Wikipedia defines technical debt as: "the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy (limited) solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer." A lot of technical debt can be...
I'm not a software developer. I leave the coding to my co-founder, Tony Nicholls, and our dev team. But that doesn't stop me from creating all sorts of user experiences in trellispark. When we decided to create a completely new customer portal for Great Ideaz, we...
Let's start by asking: "What makes our IT inefficient?" The answer often comes down to: "The increasing complexity of our application architectures." Every application in our business has a well-defined scope that is implemented by a hard-coded user experience and...
Our latest major release of trellispark on .NET 7 Blazor / WASM (WebAssembly) is now available to download for free! Microsoft officially released .NET 7 in November and we updated and tested all of our projects so that you can immediately get the performance benefits...
What is Virtualized UX and CRUD Functionality? For the purpose of this discussion “Functionality” means the user experience presented by an application. It is how a user will create and maintain data. It will also be used to invoke workflow on existing data....