Improving the effectiveness of information

  "In the current budgetary climate it is getting harder and harder to prove the benefits case for a new business application to my organization ." Origin of this myth I found this statement on several forums on the Internet. While software companies will do their best to persuade their potential customers in getting their latest software, for internal architects and analysts it is often a struggle to get things started within their own organization. In the current economic situation most CEO's and CFO's are not exactly waiting for big investments in new ICT systems, even if their internal specialists can come up with the right arguments. So how to deal with this? The classic approach is to come up with a calculation of profit and cost, based on past experiences of other organizations in the same industry and the quick wins that you see within the own organization. A cost - profit analysis is - without any doubt - a necessity when proposing a new business appl...

Live modeling through a live connection -  bridging the approximately 4650 miles between Apeldoorn in the Netherlands and Hollywood in Florida - that is not something you see (or do) everyday. The original plan was simple: go to the Building Business Capabilities conference in Florida and create a model driven business application on the fly, based on the input of the audience. Due to the impact of the hurricane Sandy, our flight to the US was canceled and we were unable to perform this plan on the exhibition floor. Fortunately our team had the equipment and the determination not to give up and instead we came up with this innovative alternative: Modeling live in our office in Apeldoorn Using join.me to share our screens with the visitors of our booth Using a Skype video connection to interact with the visitors of our booth. So what did we learn from this experience? The good Performing our live modeling exercise remote offered some major advantages: Travel costs ...

"In engineering , a requirement is a singular documented physical and functional need that a particular product or service must be or perform. It is most commonly used in a formal sense in systems engineering , software engineering , or enterprise engineering . It is a statement that identifies a necessary attribute, capability, characteristic, or quality of a system for it to have value and utility to a user." Source: Wikipedia During the Building Business Capabilities conference 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, we are going to develop a working model-driven business application, based on the input provided by the audience. And although this will be in a "lab" situation, we want to stay as close to a real life situation as possible. And then working with requirements is an essential element. Both requirements and the Be Informed modeling artifacts (models, profiles, custom meta models) are aimed at the same goal: allowing the stakeholders of the system to ...