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“ You ’ ve got to be able to auto-scale , to virtualise , to iterate on it , and you have got to change your management methodologies to adapt to those kinds of capabilities ,” says Harper . “ You can ’ t stick to a waterfall development methodology and really get the gains you want . You ’ ve got go to an agile methodology , a scrum methodology , or even Kanban methodology that takes advantage of the ability for you to iterate and deploy very quickly , rather than doing three to six month releases which are more legacy in their approach .”
Harper ’ s forward-thinking attitude to embracing emergent technologies does not end with the cloud , with his attention having been piqued by a range of concepts and solutions that stand to revolutionise collaborative communications . One concept that has captured his imagination is gamification and the influence its application could have on productivity . Gamification augments everyday work tasks with game-like features to trigger reward mechanisms in the brain , thereby increasing focus and productivity . “ There are some companies that are dabbling it ,” Harper says . “ I ’ ve seen small applications here and here ,
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