SenseAgility group Publications

 

Welcome to SenseAgility Group’s technology investment management resource library, where you can find white papers, podcasts, presentations and other industry resources to help you develop a formalized technology investment capability. See our list of published and upcoming white papers below. Follow the nav bar to your left for other resources.

 

Case Study: Capability-Based Analysis Transformation (August 2009)

Decisions are made every day. They are made as part of standard operating procedures, regardless of whether decision-grade information is available. Decision-grade information is the right information, for the right decision maker, at the right time. Increased velocity of information does not just affect how the private sector copes with an ever-changing market place. It also affects the capability of the United States Services to provide support at the tactical edge, whether for military or humanitarian missions. As these missions lessen in resemblance to symmetric warfare of 20th century, identifying and providing decision-grade information increases in importance.

This case study will outline how the Army is leveraging Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Cloud Computing, Knowledge Management Patterns, and Operational Technology Governance to achieve Capability-Based Analysis Transformation.

Will the Capability Revolution Cause Project Evolution? (July 2009)

Discusses requirements for a new project definition taking into account capability-based analysis that provides a new platform for thinking about IT investments. Starting with the vagaries of current project definition this paper marks out a territory for a more traceable avenue of communication between business and IT. Moving through capability identification to simple capability hierarchies and the relationship between capability based thinking and project definition it concludes with a vision for capability-based IT investment portfolios.

 

Preserving IT Investments with SOA+BPM Coordination (Updated February 2010)

Some adherents from the BPM community and some from the SOA community want to disprove each others’ software development approach and substitute their own. The noise levels escalate at conferences, on blogs, and perhaps into the office hall. While one may emphasize either BPM or SOA approaches on a project-by-project basis, it is very effective to use both approaches together for maximum resiliency and to preserve your investment in technology. This paper examines methodology details and architecture constraints for each, BPM and SOA, and compares and contrasts them, showing, in the final analysis, that they represent a natural fit that should not be avoided but embraced.