Building An Agile Enterprise, Raynus

• Requirements management benefits from streamlined templates that not only define projects quickly, but ensure nothing essential is overlooked.
• Data engineering receives two new "hyper modeling" techniques, yielding data warehouses that can be easily adapted when requirements change without having to invest in ruinously expensive data-conversion programs.
• Quality assurance advances with not only a stereoscopic top-down and bottom-up planning method, but also the incorporation of the latest in automated test engines.

Use this step-by-step guide to deepen your own application development skills through self-study, show your teammates the world's fastest and most reliable techniques for creating business intelligence systems, or ensure that the IT department working for you is building your next decision support system the right way.

• Learn how to quickly define scope and architecture before programming starts
• Includes techniques of process and data engineering that enable iterative and incremental delivery
• Demonstrates how to plan and execute quality assurance plans and includes a guide to continuous integration and automated regression testing
• Presents program management strategies for coordinating multiple agile data mart projects so that over time an enterprise data warehouse emerges
• Use the provided 120-day road map to establish a robust, agile data warehousing program

• The ubiquitous use of the Internet along with intelligent, mobile devices, which have enabled everyone and everything to be connected anytime, anywhere
• The emergence of a "business architecture" discipline that has driven improvements in business design and transformation practices
• The development of CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) that will provide automation to support the collaboration of knowledge workers and managers
• The development of VDML (Value Delivery Modeling Language) that supports modeling of business design from a management perspective
• The importance of "big data" management and analysis as a new source of insight into evolution of the business and the ecosystem
• How the architecture of the agile enterprise and business modeling change enterprise governance, management and innovation

Building the Agile Enterprise with Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition is a must have reference for business leaders, CTOs; business architects, information systems architects and business process modeling professionals who wish to close the gap between strategic planning and business operations as well as the gap between business and IT and enhance the creation and delivery of business value.

• Explains how business design abstraction based on collaborations, capabilities and values provides a management view of how the business works, the aspects to be improved or changed, and the means to quickly reconfigure to address new business challenges and opportunities
• Discusses how technology must be exploited for efficiency, effectiveness, innovation and agility
• Provides practicable and use-case based insights from advisory work with Fortune 100 and 500 companies across multiple verticals
• Presents the features of CMMN (Case Management Model and Notation) and explains how it enables automation to support knowledge workers, managers and enterprise agility
• Describes application of the Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML) to link strategic business transformation to operational design