Littlewink writes, "Esther Schindler's latest ****ysis reveals what Gartner is telling your boss at their annual conference. Excerpts: '"The future of application development is not about programmer productivity," said [Gartner ****yst] Hoyle during the keynote presentation, "but in assembling functionality from components." [Gartner ****yst] Veccio stated "Why would you ever code an app from scratch again? Why would you need to?"' According to Schindler (who does not 'drink the Kool-Aid'), Gartner urges managers to consider better process control and gover*****, managing 'application portfolios' much as they do stock portfolios. Part of this discipline is 'killing development projects early and often.'"
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