Adaptive Software Development (ASD) embodies principles that teach continuous adaptation to the work at hand is the status quo. ASD was created to replace traditional Waterfall variants. In a general sense, ASD processes represent a repeating series of speculate, collaborate and learn cycles. “Speculate” refers to the planning paradox—outcomes are unpredictable, therefore, endless suppositions on […]
A Good SDLC = Team Empowerment
A good SDLC does not force developers to use any specific methodology such as Waterfall or Agile. Instead, it empowers project teams to decide which practices to use, within guidelines, for each project. Once the choice is made the teams remain on that pathway until production deployment. Team empowerment is a greatly misunderstood concept. Empowerment […]
IT Governance and the SDLC – Part 2: Upfront Requirements Elicitation
When discussing investment opportunities at governance meetings, senior managers invariably ask: “How much will the project cost us?” In the early phases of opportunity talks many IT leaders respond with the “SWAG” (Scientific Widely Aimed Guess) based on experiential supposition. Later, after governance approves a deeper investigation into the cost, IT leadership returns to governance […]
IT Governance and the SDLC – Part 1
What has the SDLC got to do with IT Governance? It has long been the tradition of board-level executives to defer all key IT decisions to the company’s IT professionals. The truth is that many board-level executives don’t understand IT well enough to manage IT effectively; and IT professionals don’t understand business initiatives well enough […]
Smart Executives Invest in IT During Economic Downturns
Whenever there is a downturn in the economy, two corporate groups that seem to bear the brunt of fiscal conservatism are Human Resources and Information Technology. Unless you are actually in the business of IT to generate revenue, in the corporate world, both of these departments are cost centers. Although they are both productivity enhancement […]
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