{"id":7641,"date":"2014-02-28T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:00:34","slug":"weekly-recap-5-people-in-your-organization-who-grow-legacy-code-mobiles-next-great-leap-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/weekly-recap-5-people-in-your-organization-who-grow-legacy-code-mobiles-next-great-leap-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: 5 people in your organization who grow legacy code, mobile’s next great leap, and more…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Education\"Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I\u2019ve found over the past week. This week\u2019s top articles focus on people in your organization who grow legacy code, mobile’s next great leap, and more. I hope you find them useful:<\/p>\n

App-pocalypse now<\/span>
\nCompanies keep asking \u201chow can we get people to find and install our amazing app\u201d instead of the one question they really should have asked. \u201cWhy are we building an app in the first place?\u201d With the proliferation of mobile apps, building a native mobile app for the sake of building an app is a waste. No one will find it among the hundreds of thousands of apps already in the app store. Instead, focus your attention on making your current applications mobile-ready<\/span><\/a>.
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\n5 people in your organization that grow legacy code<\/span><\/a>
\nMany companies deal with legacy code on a daily basis. Often old and\/or confusing code, developers hesitate to change it for fear of breaking something. How can you address this legacy code<\/span><\/a>? First, make sure you\u2019re not contributing to the problem. <\/p>\n

How IT can establish better cloud control<\/span>
\nThere’s no getting around it: Employees who use SaaS applications<\/span><\/a> are more irresponsible about password security, file transfer and IT compliance. But IT’s failure to communicate about risky behavior and provide tools to help employees do their work is part of the problem.<\/p>\n

Mobile’s next great leap will happen in the cloud<\/span><\/a>
\nThe fact that mobile devices like smartphones and tablets are becoming cloud devices is nothing new. What is new is that we seem to be nearing the point of feature saturation on those devices. When that happens, the use of the cloud by mobile applications and providers will accelerate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I\u2019ve found over the past week. This week\u2019s top articles focus on people in your organization who grow legacy code, mobile’s next great leap, and more. I hope you find them useful: App-pocalypse now Companies keep asking \u201chow can we get people to …<\/p>\n

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