August 2011

Why use the Agile Methodology

Clive Flory August 22, 2011 - 1:58pm

The Agile methodology is a disciplined approach to managing projects or product development where there is still considerable uncertainty and ambiguity at the early stages of the project. It enables you to start “now” and work with what’s certain and unambiguous and progressively move the  “uncertain and ambiguous” items  to the “certain and unambiguous” work queue.

The Agile methodology is a defined process that makes it easier for a project team to deal with complexity and coherence using an incremental discovery approach.

Business Requirements: Managing the Flow of Requests

Clive Flory August 6, 2011 - 9:41pm

Business Requirements are a statement of needs. It is a request or demand for change. The list of changes is an “inventory” of needs and “change requests”. 

Identifying, defining and clearly expressing these needs represents the most critical phase in the development of a business application, web site, infrastructure or product.

Can IT and Business be aligned

Clive Flory August 5, 2011 - 1:39pm

The notion of trying to align IT with the "business needs" bears some scrutiny

When you build a house you do need to ensure that the adjacent walls are well aligned to ensure the house structure is firm and wont fall part . The ability to align is dependent on both walls having straight lines

Neither  IT or the business  have clear sharp edges that enable the two to be “aligned “. Both have fuzzy,  ill defined edges that are incapable of being aligned  

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