Solution Set

Project variability creates difficulty for the IT department when the organization expects quick response upon project and capital approval, but IT does not have the resources to act quickly.

Video

Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

Tool

Use this tool to assess whether a SOA implementation can produce value for your organization. The tool will recommend a SOA implementation or an evaluation of a limited middleware adoption.

Tool

Use this tool to find the ideal integration method for each of the organization's integrations.

Note

Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

Buyers of SOA technology struggle to reconcile their SOA strategy with other programs, such as BPM.

SOA adoption remains half-hearted. Departments hesitate to use SOA services and secretly develop their own versions on the side.

Solution Set

The organization houses a multiplicity of messaging protocols, making each new application integration a nightmare of confused standards, hardcodes, and unnecessary complexity.

Solution Set

Your clients will see significant benefits when you use Agile, but like other people involved, their roles will change. You must have client involvement throughout the Agile project lifecycle, even if it is by having a client representative present.

Solution Set

The need for responsiveness is not always driven by a need for speed. Improvements to revenue generation, customer satisfaction, quality, and availability are also drivers.

Note

IT's traditional approach to doing projects and providing services tend to be cautious, controlled and thorough--for good reason--but not perceived to be in touch with this rapid-fire business environment. New, more agile methods need to be utilized.

Video

IT leaders are challenged with meeting business needs due to rapid change or growth, while effectively maintaining and improving essential IT services.

Template/Policy

This template provides an overview of the agile software development process, including a checklist guide for executing the process steps and the roles involved.

Job Description

The Product Owner is the final authority for decisions regarding priority, business value and functionality for the work done by the Agile development team.

Job Description

The TechScrum Master facilitates the TechScrum infrastructure support process to improve the responsiveness of infrastructure support and services teams.

Tool

This workbook enables the Scrum Master to maintain a record of all key information about an Agile project.

Tool

The IT Responsiveness Assessment tool assists IT organizations with determining where they can be more responsive and it provides advice for how on how to improve.

(By Info-Tech Analyst Andy Woyzbun- Printed with permission from Processor magazine www.processor.com) Times are tough. Business is down. Some organizations hunker down, limiting their responses to reducing expenses and stopping projects and...

Although moving to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) can enhance business and IT agility, the sheer complexity and scope of the migration make this a potentially pitfall-ridden process. When embarking on an enterprise SOA initiative, IT...

Tool

Employees are assets, and the skills they hold are important tools that must be documented, tracked, and assessed in order to be effectively leveraged. Use this tool to list and rate IT's skill set arsenal, identify what's missing, and plan for...

Tool

A flagging economy eventually forces some hard decisions when it comes to IT staff. How does IT remain able to respond to changing business needs with fewer staff? Learn how agile your IT staff truly is with this measurement tool.

Tool

Employee skills are assets that must be carefully accounted for and managed in order for them to be effectively leveraged. Use this inventory tool to document IT's skills arsenal, identify gaps, and plan for future needs.

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Small IT shops often have lean staff headcounts, affording little flexibility at the best of times. When economic challenges hit, the effects on IT responsiveness can be near-paralytic. Begin to lay a foundation for an agile workforce going...

Scenario planning is a dress rehearsal for the unthinkable. Use it to identify single points of failure, ensure agility, mitigate risks, and increase stakeholder confidence.

Creating an agile workforce involves examining tasks, skills, and staff from a variety of angles to really understand how they fit together. Adopting an agile approach will ensure that the right skills are available at the right time. Follow...

Tool

Employee skills are assets that must be carefully accounted for and managed in order for them to be effectively leveraged. Use this inventory tool to document your skills arsenal, identify gaps, and plan for future needs.

Tool

Ability to respond to changing business needs is imperative to IT success, especially in light of pending economic changes. How agile are your individual staff members? Find out using this agility calculator.

Transparency in the enterprise has been a hot topic since the fall of corporate giants such as Enron and WorldCom. In the IT organization, transparency is brought about by strong leadership and results in building employee trust, breeding...