Make/Shift

Sytze and Matthijs cover the purpose of the AppFactory department, as well as how and why they started it. Sytze and Matthijs chat about their prioritization process for managing requests and how the team is driving innovation.

Rich talks about how the tech landscape within hospitals requires a different approach to selling a disrupting technology, the competitive advantage Kermit has created by delivering cloud-based software that still protects sensitive patient data that’s governed by HIPAA, (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), how Kermit transformed from a consulting service into a software-enabled offering by harnessing low-code, how Kermit has successfully digitized and mirrored previously broken workflows in hospitals rather than introducing completely new processes, and finally, insight into how low-code is guiding the future of their product offering.

Do you have a sprawling legacy system that is difficult for business units to navigate? Learn how Trane Technologies has taken a staged approach to providing secured access to the information, stored in their legacy database and ERP systems, important to each business unit. This layered approach allows them to provide value to the business in the interim while they work towards providing access to all the stored information in structured categories of microservices/APIs.

In this episode of Make/Shift, hear from Miroslav Samoylenko PhD, Managing Technical Architect (Development Architecture) at Trane Technologies, as he discusses how they selected their initial low code use cases, a mix of internal and customer-facing apps, that had the most return on a minimum investment and then structured a low code program company-wide.

Equipping all developers—professional and citizen alike—to develop their own solutions within their own business units meant that a core team of experts could tackle more complex pain points. By setting up a Center of Excellence with a very small team of experts and a governance and security model to support groundswell of apps distributed across their organization, Trane was able to deliver quickly and efficiently on business needs.

Are you struggling to resource projects that require specific technical knowledge? Continental understood they would not be able to resource their legacy migration work with custom development and needed to find a way for their IT team to move faster and release apps quickly for their enterprise. With an aggressive timeline to move apps built on Lotus Notes and Domino as those platforms approach end-of-life, Continental needed one platform that allowed them to address a wide variety of use cases.

In this episode of Make/Shift, hear from Sven Fleischer, Global IT Lead, as he discusses legacy modernization and how that effort lead to a groundswell of citizen development that has extended well beyond the initial use cases. Learn how IT program and application owners, developers and employees across the company are using low code to deliver business solutions.

Apps built on Mendix include an internal capital request workflow for approval processes, a mobile compliance app, and tracking for delivery, supplier and customer information. In addition to their expanding portfolio of use cases, Continental has also been able to tackle unique challenges during COVID-19, with an app enabling them to communicate with a newly-remote workforce, built in just 5 days.

Changing up your development practice doesn't happen overnight. From the team leader who makes a dramatic shift to get more done with less, to the makers across industries and business functions who turn their ideas into reality, the skill of choosing where, when, and how to make an impact at your company takes hard work.

Sometimes the best strategy is to learn from what others have done before and to create your path to success. Struggling to start that EOL project? Need inspiration for improving a process in your organization? Then check out our new podcast series “Make/Shift,” where we explore how thinkers become makers, and illuminate the journey that individuals take to build solutions that make an impact on their organization.