IT Adaptiveness: Why Flexibility is Now Essential for Every IT Professional
Posted by Prof. Kapil Gautam, Department of Information Technology 22 February 2018 As someone who has been teaching Information Technology for over fifteen years in engineering colleges in Delhi, I’ve come to realise that the most valuable skill we can give our students is not mastery of any single technology — it is the ability to adapt. That is why IT adaptiveness has become one of my favourite topics in class this semester. In the early 2000s, an IT professional could learn one programming language or one database system and feel reasonably secure for several years. By 2017, the pace of change has become relentless. New tools, platforms, security threats, and business requirements appear almost every few months. Companies that once relied on on-premise servers are now moving to cloud environments. Applications that were built for desktop users must now work smoothly on mobile phones and tablets. Even the way we develop software has shifted — from long waterfall projects to...