Information Technology can be loosely defined as implementing technology to improve upon a business process. Many businesses fail to properly document the full procedure and scope of a business process, as many processes are generally handed down from one worker with the responsibility to others that replace them and/or others that get hired to assist with that particular process. For this reason, when IT is called in to alleviate some sort of burden or otherwise improve upon one of these business processes, requirements creep is a byproduct of the lack of an existing, well-defined, and/or documented business process. Here’s a few things IT management should do to combat requirements creep:
Archive for July, 2010
Enemies of IT: Requirements Creep
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Useful Open Source Project Management Tools
Thursday, July 15th, 2010SOS Open Source has been used to find and select open source web-based project management with issue-tracking and time-tracking tools to manage multiple IT projects, possibly localized in Italian (or at least open for internazionalization and localization).
Installing And Running The Clojure Programming Language
Thursday, July 1st, 2010There’s a thread on the Clojure mailing list, started by folks new to Clojure, pointing out that it can be a bit daunting to get Clojure running in order to try out some basics. I figured I’d post a very short tutorial showing how to get a basic running environment and Hello World! compiled as a JAR and executable via Java.