by Michael Blechar | June 26, 2009 | 7 Comments
While I am not a guru on Agile development methodologies (I defer to my colleague David Norton on these matters), nonetheless it is a topic of discussion on almost every call I do with clients interested in improving their speed of delivery of applications or wanting to improve their understanding of user requirements to deliver [...]
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by Michael Blechar | June 17, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Business agility requires shifting to a service-oriented mentality, enabled by service-oriented architectures. However, unless organizations also shift their people, processes and technologies to service-oriented development of applications (SODA), SOA will fail to achieve its anticipated benefits. The emergence of Web services and service-oriented development of applications (SODA) provides a major boost for enterprise agility. Without [...]
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by Michael Blechar | June 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
I find it both interesting and frustrating that most business process improvement projects focus so much on process improvement to the exclusion of data improvement. Improving business agility by breaking down years of siloed transactions, programs and processes into more flexible and reusable software services is clearly a good thing to do. But what about [...]
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by Michael Blechar | June 14, 2009 | Submit a Comment
Because I get to deal with both Gartner customers involved with business process management (BPM) initiatives and service-oriented development of applications (SODA) – and the collaboration issues between business and IT analysts – I find that there remains considerable confusion concerning the term “service”. On one hand the business users speak at both coarse-grained levels [...]
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