TRIFORK

Presentation: "Buy it, Build it, Download It, or Browse It? Achieving Effectiveness with Enterprise Applications"

Time: Tuesday 13:30 - 14:30

Location: Rytmisk Sal

Abstract: "Buy versus build" isn't the question any more. The question has always been a proxy for a more important underlying issue: how to effective apply company assets in pursuit of advantage. Containing cost is part of this equation, but it's not the only factor to consider. In this session, we will examine the important decisions you must make about applications and infrastructure to support your enterprise, and how to use all the assets at your disposal: capital, time, flexibility, and creativity. Together, we will explore pragmatic implementation decisions that can help your company achieve competitive advantage with far less risk of failure.

Keywords: Business, Open Source, CIO/CTO, Time to Market, Competitiveness

Target audience: Anyone who makes decisions about IT investments.
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Michael T. Nygard, Track Host, Author of "Release It"

Michael T. Nygard

Michael strives to raise the bar and ease the pain for developers across the country. He shares his passion and energy for improvement with everyone he meets, sometimes even with their permission. Michael has spent the better part of 20 years learning what it means to be a professional programmer who cares about art, quality, and craft. He's always ready to spend time with other developers who are fully engaged and devoted to their work--the "wide awake" developers. On the flip side, he cannot abide apathy or wasted potential.

Michael has been a professional programmer and architect for nearly 20 years. During that time, he has delivered running systems to the U. S. Government, the military, banking, finance, agriculture, and retail industries. More often than not, Michael has lived with the systems he built. This experience with the real world of operations changed his views about software architecture and development forever.

He worked through the birth and infancy of a Tier 1 retail site and has often served as "roving troubleshooter" for other online businesses. These experiences give him a unique perspective on building software for high performance and high reliability in the face of an actively hostile environment.

Most recently, Michael wrote "Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software", a book that realizes many of his thoughts about building software that does more than just pass QA, it survives the real world. Michael previously wrote numerous articles and editorials, spoke at Comdex, and co-authored one of the early Java books.