Current papers
Management by Objectives and IT projects
Category: Current papers | Author: Craig Errey | Date: 01/11/2006
Management by Objectives is used by many managers to monitor people's activity. However, the system requires that the outcomes of the activities are measurable, which isn't true in the case of many IT projects. Craig Errey explains how Management by Objectives can be applied to IT projects.
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The Psychologist as business analyst
Category: Current papers | Date: 29/09/2006
Craig Errey explains how Business Analysts need all the skills of a psychologist to correctly capture and document business requirements, concluding that it would be better to employ a psychologist as a BA...and the play on 'analyst' was not lost on him either!
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Visual and natural programming for non-programmers - a false hope?
Category: Current papers | Date: 29/09/2006
This paper will provide a crash course of the basic concepts behind programming in order to show that it is a non-trivial activity and, that in order to programme, you need to think in a certain way to successfully describe what you want to do so the computer can carry out your instructions. Is visual programming a false hope? Perhaps, but we're looking at it from a very different perspective.
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The pattern perspective
Category: Current papers | Author: Jalal Radwan, Systems Engineer | Date: 01/09/2006
Systems Engineer Jalal Radwan explains what a pattern is, how they are useful for UI design, and how patterns allow you to create predictable applications that really work for users.
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What is your technology 'BASED' on?
Category: Current papers | Author: James Breeze and Craig Errey | Date: 26/07/2006
In building your last business application did you get requirements from users or test the application with them? Even if you did, you may still have had trouble making the technology work the way they needed it to. James Breeze and Craig Errey explain how engaging users is only half the equation, since technology must be built so that it is entirely 'people based', not 'data based'.
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