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Agile Governance - Article

09 MAY 2012 | Posted in agile governance, change management, uncertainty management

As the use of Agile increases so too does the need for appropriate governance. The answer does not lie in standard Agile methodologies.

There is growing interest in exploiting Agile development across both the public and private sector. But concerns about governance are either restricting its use to non-critical projects or resulting in its use for technical delivery only within a more traditional waterfall based project. Either way, the intended benefits of Agile are not being realised by many organisations.

Can any control be imposed without losing the inherent flexibility of the Agile approach?

FEB

The Cloud – you already use it, so why doesn’t your business?

29 FEB 2012 | Posted in business strategy, business value, cloud computing | Author Mike Seery

There’s a danger that the overuse and misuse of the word “cloud” can lead to apathy and ultimately put your business at a disadvantage by not harnessing the overwhelming benefits that cloud computing can deliver. This paper highlights how cloud computing is a mature technology, with the launch of Hotmail in 1996 heralding the dawn of an new era in the consumerisation of technology and explains in plain terms what cloud computing is.

NOV

How to Improve Services with Fewer Resources

24 NOV 2011 | Posted in agile business change, business strategy, business transformation, business value, NFP | Author Alex McLachlan |

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There were three excellent presentations at yesterday's NFP seminar, and a stimulating and interesting debate about how to get the best out of what is likely to be diminished funding levels in the future. Summary notes and the presentation slides are:

NOV

BBC Olympics Website and Web 3.0

21 NOV 2011 | Posted in HTML5, internet, knowledge, semantic web, taxonomy, web 3.0, website | Author Alex McLachlan

The BBC Olympics 2012 website represents a significant undertaking. It's planned to have more than 12,000 pages with individual pages for athletes, teams and event, and thousands of hours of on-demand video. With a dynamic website of this size, the management and “orchestration” of the content is a huge challenge. Particularly when it covers reports, results and statistics, all with live updates.

MAY

Book Review: RecrEAtion by Chris Potts

16 MAY 2011 | Posted in books, business strategy, business transformation, Chris Potts, enterprise architecture | Author Alex McLachlan

RecrEAtion: Realizing the Extraordinary Contribution of Your Enterprise Architects (Take It With You) is another very engaging book by Chris Potts.

It takes the same narrative style as his first book fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology which makes it an easy read. (See also: blog post on FruITion).

MAY

IT Strategy for Wealth Management Companies

07 MAY 2011 | Posted in IT strategy, wealth management | Author Anthony Flack

The wealth management industry is experiencing significant growth, and to meet the challenges in control and risk management it must undergo major changes in its use of IT. It is a sector that often has legacy IT systems and processes that require significant effort and cost to sustain a steady state.