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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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9 years ago
Developing digital literacies in undergradrate students: experience of the SADL projct
Jane Secker
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10 years ago
Librarians as teachers_secker
Jane Secker
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10 years ago
Student Ambassadors for Digital Literacy: supporting student transitions
Jane Secker
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10 years ago
Building a Sustainable Business Architecture Practice
Accelare
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10 years ago
Have you lost your mind?
Louis Richardson
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10 years ago
How to Kill Innovation in SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps
Christian Buckley
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11 years ago
Requirements Hierarchy - A Journey through the Requirements Lifecycle
Marie Halsey
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14 years ago
Creative generalist
Jaap Van Oirschot
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13 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
project management
decision theory
reasoning
software development
critical thinking
holistic
agile software development
decision support system
requirements managing
emotion
business architecture
agile
intuitive thinking
systems engineering
empathy
enterprise architecture
zachman
requirements analysis
situational awareness
project drivers
dss
decision support
enterprise stakeholders collaboration
wine
spirits
holidays
food
communication skills
medical device software
software risk management
integrated project planning
21 cfr 820.30
requirements meeting
consensus
conflict resolution
business requirement
software development process
grady booch
requirements documenting
business and economy
daniel kahneman
behavior analysis
business analyst skills
business requirements
business analyst
competencies
underlying competencies
it ressources management
it staff management
success forecast
failure forecast
knowledge management
knowledge elicitation
effective listening
organizational culture
culture
microsoft connected health framework
software architect
golden ratio
agile development
scope creep
agile scope creep
consulting
business an
meta model
integrative propositional analysis
model usefulness
systems thinking
incose
business ali
ebmm
project flexibility
project controllability
collaboration
listening skills
goal programing
software defects
software effort estimates
quality level
defect tracking
estimating defects
sysml
enterprise architect
modeling
queuing systems
sparx
systems dynamics
causal model
situation awareness
wicked problem
complexity
simulation
performance analysis
system performance
fitness for use
inductive reasoning
product validation
See more