As IT gains needed maturity, role of software nears tipping point
As a result, software's DNA is changing from a Frankenstein approach to a market-driven, natural-selection, multi-generational "success-of-the-fittest" model. If the focus moves to the process around how to assemble, adapt, evaluate, test, re-evaluate and re-use, then the process is what's becomes most important. Visibility into the entire process becomes essential. The emphasis moves from disassociated awkward steps and sequences of white-knuckle baton-hand-offs to an anticipated series of related competencies that provide lean, mean yet changing solutions to business needs.