Does this sound familiar?

You have probably been to a presentation or a sales pitch where you have heard things like:

We bring Cloud based solutions into your development environment with an Agile methodology that ensures Lean delivery on-time and on-budget.

Next time you hear something like this, try asking if he or she can describe two parts of the Agile Manifesto? Chances are that he or she cannot.

Why is that so? The reason is that Agile and Lean is the new super hot buzz word, the silver bullet to solve everything, the war to end all wars. The problem is not that that most people do not do Agile properly but merely use it as a selling point. The problem is that very few managers can tell the difference. Can you?

It is actually quite simple

Why you need a simple technical setup

You need a simple technical setup because you need to have full control over your production line. An overly complex technical setup means that you cannot support your business with the functionality they need, when they need it. This again leads to loss of revenue.

The less cogs and wheels we have in the machine, the less can go wrong. Have you ever been in a situation where you couldn’t go-live due to technical issues that you couldn’t solve? If so, then you know why a simple technical setup is a good thing.

How did it get “un-simple”?

Complex Setup

Over the years our IT ecosystems have gotten more and more complex. We used to work on a single machine, using only two or three programming languages. The system landscape today is a lot more complex. Clustered servers, different sorts of server types for different tasks, a mix of data interchange formats, integration middleware, several different programming languages and a mix of different operating systems, just to name a few.

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