Microservices is an emerging approach to software development that breaks down complex applications into smaller components or processes. It embraces DevOps, complements agile, and can provide better scalability and resilience, among other benefits. But it also requires significant organizational change, and it isn’t a silver bullet; in fact, it can make a mess. Is it for you?
We held our second Citizen Developer webinar on Thursday 19th May. It did a deep dive into the creation of the PMI Citizen Development Handbook. Here are some of the questions that were asked by the community during the webinar.
Our thought process relies on pattern recognition, categorization and prediction, and we tend to search for pathways we have followed in the past. This “efficiency rut” can limit the flow of ideas. Here are 5 keys to unlocking your innate creativity, from cultivating a resilience to failure, to silencing our tendency to predict results.
Turning ideas into apps is one of the key benefits of citizen development. We teamed up with Max Mirho from Entreprenerd, who built a no-code app live!
In high-performance organizations, a critical role is that of the hub -- an informal leader who connects the spokes of the project, from facilitating information-sharing, solving problems and working with resource pools and clients, to providing support to the project team.
A clear, concise statement of the problem your project is trying to solve is essential. It puts requirements into context, builds mutual understanding about goals between the team and stakeholders, and serves as a reality check on future scope changes. Here’s how to write a good one and use it effectively.
We held a special panel with three different citizen development industry experts discussing ways to manage and reduce risk while implementing low-code or no-code solutions.
We held our first Citizen Developer webinar on Thursday 29th April, which was an open Q&A session about the PMI Citizen Developer product suite. Here we answer some questions that were asked by the community during the webinar.
Hadrian’s Wall was the most ambitious construction project of Roman times. Undertaken to maintain security in Roman Britain, the 80-mile border fortification offers today’s project leaders some historical food for thought, including a compelling business case, constraint tradeoffs and changing requirements.