I always enjoy working with organizations’ Enterprise Architects. When they execute correctly, enterprise architects truly shape the direction of the organization. They touch everything, including how corporate governance should function, where the business needs to move in terms of process and performance, how information management should be improved, what the key information technology initiatives should [...]
Fit for purpose In any context, information assurance involves trade-offs and compromise along several dimensions in order to achieve or exceed performance requirement thresholds for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In the domain of software development, these requirements include the systems and software that provide user- and customer-facing capabilities, and also encompass the environments, systems, and [...]
Here at Asynchrony Solutions, we’ve been Gamestorming. Similar to retrospective activities, Gamestorming provides a way to draw out ideas from a particular group of people in an innovative, creative way. Some of the Gamestorming activities I have witnessed over the past few weeks include the $100 Test, Dot Voting and Who Do. The $100 Test [...]
We knew usability was going to play a big role in the successful release of version 1.6 of an ongoing software development project. What we weren’t sure of was when we could schedule a formal usability study with the product end users. Fortunately, we were able to plan, conduct, and analyze the study prior to [...]