As an ardent hockey fan, I've enjoyed the recent commercials showing Wayne Gretzky skating while some fans see it as the first step in a comeback by "The Great One." So, I was equally pleased to read Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri's blog post that opens with a Gretzky quote and a photo from his days as an Edmonton Oiler -' "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been." (Here, of course, we show him in the vastly more appealing sweater of ... YOUR... NEW YORK RANGERS!) His point is that developers need to see where business is going, where user expectations are going, and where development technology is headed.
Gualtieri uses the Gretzky quote to set up his blog, "Three Megatrends to Master for Application Development." Simply stated, they are: Go faster, create better user experiences, and "do mobile."
See, that wasn't so hard, was it? :-)
Of course, there's more to it than that. If there weren't, we'd all be developing apps right now. Mike will be elaborating on these thoughts in the May issue of SD Times.
