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During my 20+ year career as an IT professional, I have come to realize that alignment between any two parties is ultimately grounded in a mutual belief that a particular set of goals is of value to the other party. In other words, it is not enough that one party believes in these goals and that the other party also does; it is also required that each party believes that the other party believes in these goals. The prerequisite for Business and IT alignment, is that Business and IT must each believe in the organization's goals, and Business and IT must also each believe that the other party believes in these same goals. The challenge of Business and IT alignment then revolves around the m...
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Presentations
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(9)Thought Leadership Session: Enterprise Semantics & Ontology, The Power of Understanding the Enterprise
Wim Laurier
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8 years ago
Developing digital literacies in undergradrate students: experience of the SADL projct
Jane Secker
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8 years ago
Librarians as teachers_secker
Jane Secker
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8 years ago
Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy: supporting student transitions
Jane Secker
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9 years ago
Building a Sustainable Business Architecture Practice
Accelare
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9 years ago
Have you lost your mind?
Louis Richardson
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9 years ago
How to Kill Innovation in SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps
Christian Buckley
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10 years ago
Requirements Hierarchy - A Journey through the Requirements Lifecycle
Marie Halsey
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13 years ago
Creative generalist
Jaap Van Oirschot
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12 years ago
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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area, Minnesota United States
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Technology / Software / Internet
Website
pragmaticohesion.com
About
During my 20+ year career as an IT professional, I have come to realize that alignment between any two parties is ultimately grounded in a mutual belief that a particular set of goals is of value to the other party. In other words, it is not enough that one party believes in these goals and that the other party also does; it is also required that each party believes that the other party believes in these goals. The prerequisite for Business and IT alignment, is that Business and IT must each believe in the organization's goals, and Business and IT must also each believe that the other party believes in these same goals. The challenge of Business and IT alignment then revolves around the m...
Tags
business analysis
requirements gathering
requirements
software quality
requirements quality
decision theory
project management
reasoning
software development
critical thinking
holistic
decision support system
agile software development
business architecture
emotion
requirements managing
situational awareness
systems engineering
project drivers
dss
decision support
empathy
zachman
enterprise stakeholders collaboration
enterprise architecture
intuitive thinking
agile
requirements analysis
project controllability
project flexibility
ebmm
business ali
incose
systems thinking
model usefulness
integrative propositional analysis
meta model
business an
consulting
agile scope creep
scope creep
agile development
golden ratio
software architect
microsoft connected health framework
culture
organizational culture
effective listening
knowledge elicitation
knowledge management
failure forecast
success forecast
product validation
inductive reasoning
fitness for use
system performance
performance analysis
simulation
complexity
wicked problem
situation awareness
causal model
systems dynamics
sparx
queuing systems
modeling
enterprise architect
sysml
estimating defects
defect tracking
quality level
software effort estimates
software defects
goal programing
listening skills
communication skills
food
holidays
spirits
wine
collaboration
it staff management
it ressources management
underlying competencies
competencies
business analyst
business requirements
business analyst skills
behavior analysis
daniel kahneman
business and economy
requirements documenting
grady booch
software development process
business requirement
conflict resolution
consensus
requirements meeting
21 cfr 820.30
integrated project planning
software risk management
medical device software
See more