Have you ever heard of the SDLC triangle? Probably not unless you’ve downloaded my free sample chapter or have read The Ultimate Guide to the SDLC. It’s something I invented to demonstrate the complementary nature of project management methods and the system development life cycle. In terms of importance to a project, the SDLC and […]
Best of the Best Practices
In Chapter 2 of The Ultimate Guide to the SDLC, 12 historical system development models, both agile and waterfall based, are compared as well as one hybrid and one philosophy. The best practices from each model are extracted and extrapolated into a best of best practices model. None of the Waterfall or Agile models provide […]
Elicitation Competencies that Give the Most Bang for the Buck
The Information Architecture Group (IAG) located in New Castle, Delaware, is one of the 28 founding members of the International Institute of Business Analysis, a heavy contributor to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge and a thought leader in requirements maturity best practices. In 2008, IAG conducted a survey of over 100 larger companies with […]
Achieve Unqualified Project Success
In 1995, the Standish Group’s Chaos Report said, “Requirements problems have been proven to contribute to 20-25% of all project failures. The average project overran its budget 189% and its schedule by 222%” In 2004, the same group’s Chaos Chronicles reported: Only 34% of projects expected to finish on time; 52% had proposed functionality; 82% […]
Guess the Agile Method?
What popular agile development method names its participants after the characters found in the following story, first told by Bennett Cerf on June 13, 1950 and published in the Titusville, Pennsylvania Herald in the column “Try and Stop Me?” A hen and a pig were sauntering down the main street of an Indiana town when […]
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