Third parties: Friend or foe? (and how to deal with them)

Description

No app is complete without third parties They are a pain to deal with for IT but are loved by business and marketing. Almost no organization knows exactly how many third-party applications they have, what the added value is, and what harm they can do in regards to functionality, performance, or security. Developers are challenged to embed an ever-increasing number, ensuring that they don’t break anything or open security holes while keeping the application performant.

Drawing on his experience working on numerous projects with key brands, Kristian Skoeld explains how to deal with this situation in a productive manner, sharing proven methods and techniques on how to manage third parties and break through IT and business silos. You’ll leave with new insights into third parties and a list of tools, checklists, and approaches to help you end emotionally loaded discussions and make data-driven decisions. You’ll also learn how to assess your current situation and improve collaboration between business and IT.

Topics include:

• What are third parties and what value do they bring?
• How can they be harmful?
• Building an inventory
• Collaboration between business and IT
• Collecting data and conducting impact assessment
• Prioritizing on the right third parties based on a data-driven decision process
• Overview of existing tools and how to use them with third parties
• Establish process-driven third-party management