When I started as a development worker in Peru in 1985, PCs had just started to emerge. Everywhere around me I saw Peruvians and aid workers alike programming PCs using floppy disks and software with funny names like dBase and Lotus 123. At technical college I had been taught a little about programming in Basic on mainframe computers. Now, high up in the Andean mountains people were developing their own applications and I was quick to hitch the ride. No Windows yet and MS-DOS was just one of the obscure names floating around.
After these initial exciting times of developing your own applications, and actually using them yourself (!), companies started to take over. MS became Microsoft. Databases and software became the stuff of professionals and the rest of us became users. Some got very rich, some very big, some both, but most became disenchanted with software and systems. Users were charmed with user requirements, user acceptance testing, training, and, more recently, user stories or even journeys.
How come that we can create our own websites, blogs, Facebook pages, YouTube channels and much more, but that the organisation of our work still depends on other people?
No more! Podio has put us in charge again 🙂
Klaas⋄Live 