May 22 2019 Wednesday
After Engage 2019
Theo Heselmans did it again: A very well-organized conference with a fantastic venue and a great lineup of speakers covering various topics...
Engage was quite unexpected for me this year.
First of all, there has been a great energy in the community. After so many years, people seemed to be more hopeful about the future of the Domino product. Of course, it is understandable, especially just a couple of weeks away from the total handover and while the "scapegoat" is going away and good guys are coming for the rescue... :)
Joking aside, it was quite obvious that HCL handle the product management in a much different way compared to the IBM. They have a clear and honest attitude towards mistakes made and also provide great detail in their future directions. There are very difficult challenges ahead of the HCL team and I am sure they are aware of it. I wouldn't like to be in their shoes these days.
Another surprize for me that both my sessions had packed room.
Paul Withers and I were hosts of the roundtable on behalf of OpenNTF this year. As Paul blogged, it was a great discussion with developers with different perspectives. Although it slightly went to a direction I didn't anticipate, my take on the roundtable was mostly about the difference between what is on my head and what developers suffer. It reminded me a very old blog post on the distance between customer mind and us :)
I was also speaking with Tom Van Aken from Groupwave on RESTful services. This was particularly important to me. I spent a lot of time on designing REST integrations for my customers and this is the third time I share my experiences on this topic after ICON UK 2016 and IBM Connect 2017. I wasn't expecting a full room this time but I guess RESTful becomes more important with the introduction of Domino Appdev Pack and the new direction of HCL. I am pretty sure I will participate in more projects in this area in the future.
Thanks to Graham Acres for his valuable suggestions on this session. The slidedeck is below.
Engage was quite unexpected for me this year.
First of all, there has been a great energy in the community. After so many years, people seemed to be more hopeful about the future of the Domino product. Of course, it is understandable, especially just a couple of weeks away from the total handover and while the "scapegoat" is going away and good guys are coming for the rescue... :)
Joking aside, it was quite obvious that HCL handle the product management in a much different way compared to the IBM. They have a clear and honest attitude towards mistakes made and also provide great detail in their future directions. There are very difficult challenges ahead of the HCL team and I am sure they are aware of it. I wouldn't like to be in their shoes these days.
Another surprize for me that both my sessions had packed room.
Paul Withers and I were hosts of the roundtable on behalf of OpenNTF this year. As Paul blogged, it was a great discussion with developers with different perspectives. Although it slightly went to a direction I didn't anticipate, my take on the roundtable was mostly about the difference between what is on my head and what developers suffer. It reminded me a very old blog post on the distance between customer mind and us :)
I was also speaking with Tom Van Aken from Groupwave on RESTful services. This was particularly important to me. I spent a lot of time on designing REST integrations for my customers and this is the third time I share my experiences on this topic after ICON UK 2016 and IBM Connect 2017. I wasn't expecting a full room this time but I guess RESTful becomes more important with the introduction of Domino Appdev Pack and the new direction of HCL. I am pretty sure I will participate in more projects in this area in the future.
Thanks to Graham Acres for his valuable suggestions on this session. The slidedeck is below.
