Category: Agile

Using Agile within Cloud deployments can fail for the following key reasons: Culture of the firm is not democratized and does not allow for experimentation, failure, or subject matter expert control over technology components. The

Waterfall theologies are directly responsible for the failure of ~70% of IT projects of any size and variety.  Forrester estimates that 68% of projects fail due to poor requirements gathering; Gartner regularly publishes reports outlining

What is Agile? About 70% of projects fail.  Most of these – a vast majority – still use the Waterfall methodology.  Waterfall is completely unsuited to building software, code, systems or complexity of any variety. 

When should firms use Agile?  The short answer is that within IT, it should be the de-facto methodology for development, migration and delivery of IT projects.  However, Agile is difficult, mandates a long-term investment along

Within VLE’s (very large enterprises), the culture of silo’s is difficult to fracture and re-arrange.  Waterfall or traditional methods of IT management and deployment do not easily surrender or die-off.  There is always a rear-guard

Strengths and Best Practices Agile-Scrum’s strengths include adaptability, flexibility, improved team structures, and an ability to incorporate changing requirements, leading to improved quality, and Business-IT collaboration (Inayat et al 2014). Chandrasekara (2017) and other case

A curious aspect of IT Architecture is that there is no single definition of Architecture.  This causes real problems on projects.  The reason is that Architecture and Design, are the pre-requisites for good IT systems. 

Issues with Agile include scaling and not having a detailed design which considers all aspects of security, interoperability and networking.  OOAD and Domain Driven Design can help alleviate these issues. Agile Agile is not only a delivery