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Insight
We hear that effective business-IT alignment requires the development of business models. This is the way to ensure that the business drives the technology, not the other way around. The awareness of this requirement is an important step; the second step is to ensure that you develop proper business models. Good business models must comply with some core requisites.
Last week, we discussed several important requirements for developing proper business models. Another crucial issue has to do with the specific modeling methodologies or techniques to use.
During the last decade or so, as software engineers were required to master more complex technologies, our typical response was to know less and less about the business we supported. IT roles became stratified: programmers had to know the technical idiosyncrasies, systems analysts had to know the business idiosyncrasies, and for some period of your career you could be stuck between these two worlds as a programmer-analyst.
HIGH-TECH INTERRUPTIONS CONTRIBUTE
HIGH-TECH INTERRUPTIONS CONTRIBUTE
Model-based approaches have long been premised on the fact that it is an order of magnitude cheaper to change an exploratory diagram at feasibility than it is to make the same change to the production code, as evidenced by studies carried out in the early 1980s. E-business reinforces the impact of this message by raising the bar for high-quality software. No longer is software designed for single, known individual users; it is designed for vast numbers of anonymous users.
ARE COMPONENTS ANY BETTER THAN STRUCTURED OR OO STUFF? 5 April 2000 by Paul Allen
Model-based approaches have long been premised on the fact that it is an order of magnitude cheaper to change an exploratory diagram at feasibility than it is to make the same change to the production code,
Executive Update
Top 10 Outsourcing Problems
As outsourcing becomes entrenched as a means to deliver IT solutions, horror stories from vendor projects are becoming commonplace. The landscape is littered with multimillion dollar failures in which years of investment leave buyers with partially functioning systems or with the necessity of having multimillion dollar annuities to keep systems operating.