Building
Applications in
a Day…or Less
By Ano Tisam
Overview
Short
Story
Current ICT Environment
How software is normally built?
How we build software?
Current ICT Environment
No Buy in to ICT policy => Where? …and Why?
No Strategic Plan => How?
No Programmes & Projects => What?
What happened? Chaos
Ministries doing their own thing
Ad-hoc IT procurement and projects
Duplication of effort due to decentralisation of
systems,
OPM ICT unable to coordinate effectively due to
resource constraints
Rely on Foreign Consultants backed by donors
Local IS/CS grads out of work in their fields
USP IS/CS Graduates
Job Placements
Jobs by Industry
IT Industry
Banking
IT Related Work
Education/Teaching
Non-IT Related Work
Other
Job placement of USP IS or CS grads from 2001-2010
Foreign vs. Local
Foreign
Local
Tourism
MFEM
$50,000
Annual $10,000
$4000
Annual $0
o Average Govt cap exp: $354,363 per
software project
o 100% sent overseas
Government Contracts
For software development goes overseas
Viviki
Reason why we built.
How is software usually
built?
Web Applications
Build Database Layer
Modelling entities and their relationships
(ERD)
Build Logic Layer
Model processes/business logic
Build a User Interface Layer
Modelling user interaction with system
Tried many Alternatives
Various
tools and methodologies have
been created to deal with complexity
Coding frameworks e.g. CodeIgniter, Ruby
on Rails, .NET
Development Methodologies e.g. Waterfall,
SCRUM, Lean IT, Extreme Programming
IDE’s, Code Gens
Object-Oriented Programming
Brief Demo
http://localhost/viviki/
The End
Thank You – an0tis@gmail.com
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