Application Architecture Assessment Checklist
Need some help assessing the architecture of your applications? Look no further.
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Application Developer's Architecture Checklist
An important part of developing an application is designing its overall architecture. Use this checklist as a measure of insurance that your software architecture design is sound and will properly enable and support the application and its users.
Data Warehouse Total Implementation Plan
Stolen from Real Life (a data warehouse development project for a waste water treatment management system), this Microsoft Project plan takes you through the construction of a complete data warehouse from start to finish.
Application Inventory Matrix Template
The purpose of this document is to develop a project inventory matrix which includes the major projects. The matrix would further help document the planned application architecture and facilitate the design of the future IT and application landscape.
Project Assessment
Use this project assessment plan to assess the health of a project and identify any symptoms that may indicate it is heading toward trouble.
In an age of tight budgets and global competition, businesses need IT to do more than complete on time, on budget and with the required functionality. Learn Why Spreadsheets No Longer Cut it for Strategic PMOs.
Looking at IT Governance Through the Clouds
Cloud computing offers cost savings, flexibility and speed of deployment that can be very tempting to all kinds of IT organizations, but don't forget about the risks inherent in turning over control of your data in the age of IT Governance and SOX compliance.
Client Server Architecture Selection Form
Designing a client/server architecture for a distributed application? Use this form to help you make intelligent decisions.
Data Warehouse Project Plan
Are you putting together a data warehouse? This Microsoft Project plan will help you keep tabs on all the complex stages and steps involved in building decision support systems and a knowledge-based applications architecture and environment.
System Architecture
You'll be able to see what interfaces with what by looking at these diagrams.
Agile Program Management: Possible or a Pipe Dream?
Agile approaches help manage risk for projects. Is it possible to scale agile approaches to programs? Yes, and there are four areas to consider: backlog management, product architecture, managing risks across the program and explaining program state.
Distributed Application Preliminary Design Review
Are you prepared to design? The end of the analysis phase is a milestone in an application development project, prime time to assess the accuracy and completeness of the business models and technical design thus far. Use this comprehensive review form to catch all the red flags and guide the development of design specs.
The SOA Project Manager
Project managers usually tend to focus on the methodology for executing the technical part of the project. However, a good understanding of a practical SOA landscape and its associated challenges can help a technical PM make the SOA adoption on technology projects run even smoother.
Software Development: Controlled Introduction
Use this project plan fpr the development of a distributed application system that will eventually become generally available to an infinite list of customers.
IT Strategic Planning
Need help developing an IT strategic plan for an organization? Look no further than this project plan.
Architecture Services Review Form
This Architecture Services Review Form outlines major factors to consider when contracting architecture services.
Architecture Services Review Checklist
This Architecture Services Review Checklist helps you assess the completeness of and identify areas for improvement of the architecture.
Project-Level Technical Architecture
It is important to define your project’s technical architecture early in the process, with input from the team. This includes all the hardware, software and other technologies your project requires. It will need to be flexible, but the sooner you get it right, the better off your budget and schedule will be.
Distributed Application Architecture
Educate your client on how a distributed application system works and the benefits of building it with a three-tier architecture. Here's a presentation that illustrates it.
Agile Architecture and Program Myths
Especially in agile programs, the program architect and the program manager work together to provide business value to the organization. It’s difficult, intense and fun...and full of some myths that need clearing up.
Business Driven PMOs: Setting up a PMO
This webinar will discuss considerations and techniques for setting up or refreshing a PMO and will explain and provide examples of how PMO Architecture can ensure the success of your PMO.
Technical Architecture Components
Itemize the software and middleware tools, hardware components and communication components that comprise your technical architecture, with justification for choosing each.
Generic Billing System Business Requirements Executive Summary
Are you developing a billing system for your client? You've defined your business requirements and information architecture and must now report back to Management on the project status. Here's a model executive summary report.
Rapid Application Development Project Plan
Rapid Application Development (RAD) is designed to deliver systems very quickly. Project scope, size and circumstances all determine the success of a RAD approach. Use this Microsoft Project plan for your RAD project.
Vendor Selection Questionnaire Checklist
Choosing package vendors is never easy. Let this checklist guide you in making that all important first cut.
Agile Architecture
In an agile program, the architects are an integral part of the teams, locally guiding the architecture and using that knowledge to make global decisions about the program’s architecture as the program proceeds.
Portfolio Management Framework in Action
This article describes how an IT organization from a Fortune 500 manufacturing company applied the framework to its portfolio of accounting and finance applications.
Risks and Rewards of SOA and SaaS
Time for an update on the state of SOA and SaaS in today's business environment. As with most technologies, there is good news and bad news. Read up to understand how to make the most of these business options without risking it all.
Test Case Checklist
Developing the necessary contingent of test cases to completely and accurately test the system you are building involves detailed thinking and can be a hit-or-miss activity if you improvise. Check off the items here to determine if your test cases will reveal all the hidden problems and ensure that all scenarios are addressed.
Application Lifecycle Resourcing?
Should your development teams stay with a product from birth to retirement, or should there be “expert” teams for the different needs of each stage of the lifecycle? Here we look at the advantages of both--and the real world factors that you also need to consider.
Information Strategy Plan
Information strategy planning is a useful approach to take if your business needs reevaluation and realignment with the current market and industry demands. Here's a high-level Microsoft Project plan for tackling the development of an information management strategy for your overall business.
Data Warehouse Extraction Tool Recommendation
How do you select the best data extraction/transformation toolset for your data warehouse? Evaluate features, functionality, vendor reputation... the works. Follow the example set by this robust tool evaluation.
Data Warehouse Metadata Diagram
Your clients are probably curious about the elusive "metadata" and knows it only as "data about data". Show them via a simple diagram how metadata, the reference information about the business data in the warehouse, fits into the data warehouse structure.
Client Server Architectures Final Report
A gantthead classic! Sure, this client server architectures final report, taken from real life, is not exactly state-of-the-art. Technology has changed a bit since it was written. What hasn't changed, however, is the excellent way this report is put together. Use its structure as a guide to putting together something awesome of your own.
Cost Estimating Procedure Form
Construction projects are notoriously complicated. Estimating construction costs is even more complicated. Before you turn to the deck of tarot cards or start reading tea leaves to put together your next cost estimate, check out this cost estimating procedure form to base your estimates solidly in reality.
Computer System Request
Use this form to justify and document requests for new or existing computer systems.
IT 2015: What Things May Come
Seems almost impossible that 2015 is a mere five years away. Ever stop to think how information technology will change in five simple years? Our esteemed writer pondered that idea, did some research and here is what he learned…
Application Portfolio Management: Governance, Process and Execution
From Gartner. In this session from the June 2005 PPM Summit, Jim Duggan, Research Vice President for Gartner, looks at the elements of governance, assessment and operational processes that successful implementations have exploited.
Frontiers of Strategic Decision Making
From Gartner PPM Summit 2007
This kickoff presentation, from Gartner Fellow and Research Vice President Bill Rosser, discusses how Portfolio Management has stimulated practices such as weighted business drivers, the efficient frontier, architecture as a criterion, and insightful ways to determine alignment.
Service-Oriented Architecture: What It Is and What It Isn't
You know that SOA is the latest buzzword, but now we'll tell you what this new technology really means and how you can use it to your organization's best advantage.
Technical Architecture Assessment Checklist
Before you begin software and hardware deployment, be sure to use this checklist to prevent flaws in your technical architecture.
Rethinking the Notion of Legacy
The truth is simple: Legacy in IT is less about technology and more about complexity and architecture than anything else. So why do we continue to proliferate a legacy environment today without a proper enterprise architecture?
Five Ways BPM Can Help PPM Boost Business Results
From Gartner PPM Summit
Research Vice President and Gartner Fellow Bill Rosser presents this session on how PPM can leverage its experience in the broad view of project selection, resource management and consistency of architecture, with added verification of delivered benefits.
Beyond the Business Case: Projects in the Enterprise Architecture
From Gartner PPM Summit
By identifying the common themes between PPM and EA, both have the opportunity to strengthen each other and do more with less. Failure to rationalize EA and PPM is negligence. In this presentation, Gartner V.P. Robert Handler will look at the theory, reality and opportunity behind a collaborative approach.
Building Architectural Requirements, Bit by Bit
Whether the solution to the problem is rendered in bricks and mortar or in bits and bytes, in making the right selection the challenge an architect always faces is to correctly identify their clients’ wants and needs, and then help them to see how selecting one solution over another directly affects the outcome of the finished product.
The Art of Software Delivery
The key criteria used to determine the successful outcome of a project applied against other engineering disciplines are also applicable to software ones. If we know that, why do software projects have a poor track record of delivery? Read on to find out how we can improve it.
Ensuring Quality in the Brave New World of SOA
To understand Services Oriented Architecture and its implications on quality assurance, one must look at how software has evolved over the years.
Tool Shop: CollabNet
CollabNet updates its TeamForge platform and ScrumWorks project management application, focusing on scaling agile to the enterprise through flexible reporting, ease of use and other enhancements.
What's Up With SOA in 2008?
One of the biggest hurdles in understanding the prevalence and popularity of SOA is pinning down the right definition. Depending on how you look at it, 2008 could be a big year for SOA development and deployment.
BA Trends for 2011
Today’s business realities demand a better balance of soft and technical skills from business analysts, according to a global panel of senior executives and consultants asked to identity the Top 10 Trends for the discipline.
Are You Experienced?
Based on current trends, project managers will see an increase in the need for them to have more experiential training in real-life situations in order to stay competitive. To maintain a professional edge, PMs will need to set goals to gain significant knowledge through work scenarios and industry learning.
