For my Togaf certification. A Building Block is a package of functionality defined to meet business needs across an organisation. A Building Block is one of ( I tend to think “such as”) Actor Business Service ( a derivative of…
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TOGAF
I am belatedly studying for my togaf practioner certification. The open group just call it level 2, but in essence it is practioner level. So I thought I would combine my studying with posting a few articles that may be more generally interesting. …
Agile V/S Waterfall Development
Originally posted on Software and Web development Articles:
What Is Agile Development? Agile programming is a thought or technique that includes iterative advancement in short cycles. It incorporates a large amount of cooperation with clients or business agent, and its…
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Business Architecture Techniques
My work in IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture always required a firm understanding of the company’s, or more accurately, the enterprise’s business architecture. Much of this is straightforward to uncover, but gathering sufficient clarity and depth of business strategies and objectives…
Assumptions and Risks
I have just tried to read a book on Risk Management, and failed. My interest had been stirred by some new thinking (to me anyway) on risk that I picked up from a recent Prince2 training course. This is addition…
IT Enabled Change
Investment in IT can enable new ways for companies to do business and I have listed a few examples below. But think hard regarding the realisation of value and I hope you will recognise that these are fundamentally CHANGE initiatives,…
Change Management with IT Implementations
In a previous post I shared a diagram showing the connections between a Change Management and IT Systems Development Methodology. I shared it with you to illustrate a very important point. By the way, both parts of the diagram are…
Change Management for IT Implementations
The diagram shows how my old consulting firm mapped their Change Management methodology onto it’s Systems Development method.
Critical Success Factors
The above is a term you may have come across, but in my experience it is widely misunderstood. It seems to me everyone has a different interpretation of the term. So I thought I would put my own view down…
Workshop Idea
There’s a term used in Education I’d like to introduce you to as I think it may be relevant to your work as a Project Manager – it’s “Formative Assessment”. As a teacher one thing you need to do is…
