Comments on The Digité Fountainhead: Digité Goes On the Cloud!

I would agree that process and governance are requ...

2010-01-27T11:53:05.434-08:00

I would agree that process and governance are requirements for sound engineering results. The advantage here is that it is all in the same "cloud". "Are we smart enough to use it?", is maybe a better question.

Digité provides the breadth needed to effectively manage ALM. But it only leads you to the water, can't make you drink.

We must re-think our management processes to be as flexible as our technical ones. I recognize this may be sacrilegious, but development is a commodity. Domain expertise and the ability to crisply define what you want are the keys to quality products. Any college grad can develop it. You want a management structure of controls and metrics which will help manage costs and produce the require functionality. Doesn't matter what methodology you use. As opposed to spreadsheets and multiple tools, supporting various status meetings, we need an infrastructure which encourages timely access to the real (as opposed to the created) data and have everyone on the same page.

I believe the Digité cloud provides that enablement.

Bill Atteberry
President
Atteberry & Associates

I love the concept of "just enough process.&q...

2010-01-20T11:56:03.216-08:00

I love the concept of "just enough process." Unfortunately, I believe that was what we had in the in the mortgage and banking industry prior to the meltdown. Where IT process can be shortcut we often pursue it at the expense of sound engineering and thoughtful execution. That is why there still must be a role for governance in the application life-cycle world. Checks and balances of a governance process are established to ultimately protect the interests of all stakeholders (even if it slows things down a bit). The real culprit is our never ending Lemming-like pursuit of being efficient at all costs. We have down-sized and right-sized to the point that we're more often than not dumb-sized. Knew better, but made the same mistakes again.

Now, if you could combine an ALM application with just enough process without the losing the all important - Let's do it right governance model then you would really have something.

Derek Scoble
TOTCAT (Too old to care about titles)

Great news! And good insights...particularly the v...

2010-01-19T13:06:22.572-08:00

Great news! And good insights...particularly the value of "just enough process." I am looking forward to taking this into the small and midsize organizations here in the Atlanta area...I believe this is exactly what many folks have been looking for -- a solid platform, the right amount of process/control and the transparency of a collaborative work environment.

Walt Carter
COO, RM Battle