Clive Flory's blog

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  

The Agile Community will face  the problem of ensuring that the  "Agile methodology"  lives up to the very thing that defines it: The ability to be Agile and Adaptive as we navigate the changing world . 

Its easy for a group of people to agree on the "quality" of a physical product but its not so easy to agree on the "quality" of non physical products such as services or software systems.....

How do you deliver a product or project to a customer at a fixed price?

Estimating anything requires skill, and the accuracy of the skill depends on the type of product and the nature of the business .......

Business Requirements are a statement and an “inventory” of needs for a desired business system. Identifying, defining and clearly expressing these needs represents the most critical phase in the development of a business application, web site, infrastructure or product ....

Business priorities for efficiency, growth and innovation should guide your IT and business systems strategy

The business environment is a dynamic ecological system. It is not one large singular ecology but an intricate web of many macro , micro and niche eco systems