Development

Over the years I’ve seen some really great modellers that have been built using Microsoft Excel. I also get told quite often that it would be great if these modellers could be delivered online. Of course you can share them online with other Excel users either by email or by using a download link on a website, but quite often these modellers contain code and users don’t always trust macro-enabled workbooks. What, of course, they really want is to deliver the same Excel experience online and so they have two

I wanted to write about some of the ways application development has changed over the years. In this first article, I will cover the phasing of application development against more traditional delivery approaches such as waterfall and agile. It covers the reasons why you and your application development effort should be adopting a phased approach too and I will follow up with more articles on refining this approach. There is nothing actually wrong with the waterfall or agile approaches if you have the right environment to make them work. This

It can be confusing with the terminology around programmers and developers especially when these descriptions are used interchangeably so in this article I will attempt to differentiate between the two. I know that not everyone will agree with me and some will think that developers and programmers are the same thing but from looking around when trying to hire resources, I think the market has pretty much adopted the same approach as me. So for people who may be looking to hire development resources or have a development project on