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Learning Zone: Process Maturity - Contents

In today's business environment many organizations face the challenge of complying with regulatory, industry or contractual standards. The challenge is not just about complying; organizations must also prove their compliance. Taken together, these twin challenges are very costly - the implications of the recent Sarbanes-Oxley legislation in the USA has led to Europe-based businesses planning to delist in New York to avoid the cost of compliance altogether.

Facing the challenges of achieving and proving process maturity - for whatever reason - is vital to the continued success of many businesses. Select's tools help minimize the costs of maturity and allow organizations to rapidly deliver improved, compliant processes as well as maintain their bottom line.

 

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Introducing Select Perspective

For CIOs, IT Directors, Project Managers, and solution developers who need a software development process that meets the many demands of modern solution delivery, Select Perspective™ is a comprehensive development lifecycle for component based solutions that supports parallel development activities in order to reduce time-to-market.
Select Perspective: an Agile Process

One thing an agile process can never be is an off-the-shelf methodology. How can it? By its nature, any textbook methodology that expresses sequencing of activities, inevitably constrains the execution of those activities. If it is large, it will appear monolithic. If small, it will be inadequate for the more complex of needs. In reality, we can make things simpler by considering the following: defined process can neither be agile nor inflexible – how the process is applied is what counts.
Select Perspective and DSDM - a Comparison Mapping

In this whitepaper we will discuss a brief history of The Select Perspective and DSDM, the current similarities and differences between them and, of most importance, how they may be used together today for component based software implementation projects.
Select Perspective and PRINCE 2

PRINCE 2, a best-practice methodology for project management, is becoming increasingly popular in the private sector, both in the UK and overseas. This document describes how PRINCE 2 relates to The Select Perspective, a component-based development methodology. It explains the advantages of using the two methodologies in tandem, and shows how they relate in terms of both cross-referencing and terminology.
Select Perspective and Feature Driven Development

This document first outlines the principles of Feature-driven Development (FDD), the process, roles and deliverables, then details the strengths and weaknesses of the approach. The scope and differences between FDD and Select Perspective are outlined, before showing how the features can be mapped to use cases and subsequently to components and services. Finally a table shows how the FDD process steps are incorporated within Select Perspective.

Reports

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Software Review 126 - Select Process Director

by Project Manager Today

Project Manager Today

Using a pre-release beta version of the tool, Jon Collins reviews Process Director version 1.4. He describes the product, explains how it’s used and considers its benefits and shortfalls.

Media Presentations

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How Select Process Director Supports CMMI

This movie look at how Select Process Director can help your company reach CMMI level 5. The movie is split into five sections which explore the benefits of Select Process Director at each CMMI Level.

Technical Overviews

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Select Process Director
Using Select Process Director to rollout pre-populated life-cycles dramatically reduces the research necessary to apply best practices within your software development organization. However, these benefits can be extended with Select Process Director Plus. Select Process Director Plus’s pre-populated life-cycles can be extended, simplified and modified to meet your software development needs.
Application Development Tools Blog
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    If you read the Daily Telegraph you might have come across the Media  Planet supplement “Sourcing” last Tuesday (March 17th); it had the strap line “Utilising sourcing as part of your business strategy”. Of course we are all pretty familiar with the now standard model of outsourcing, or off-shoring software development. There are numerous destinations for [...]

  • Easing the ‘complexity’ of BPMN 2 Mar 2009 | 3:30 am

    As a consultant with a business and systems modeling tool vendor, the conversations I have involving business analysts invariably seem to turn to the perceived complexity of the business process modeling notation (BPMN). It’s a topic which has had much coverage in the last year, following the publication of a research paper on BPMN usage by [...]

  • Why? Identifying the purpose of business systems 27 Feb 2009 | 8:09 am

    Those familiar with the Zachman framework will recognise the need for identifying the ‘Why?’, and certainly I’ve come across many projects where without a clear indicator of the business reasoning behind development of new systems, those systems have, not surprisingly, failed to fully meet the business needs. Identifying the business motivation behind a project is perhaps [...]

  • One man’s goal is another man’s objective 25 Feb 2009 | 7:37 am

    In my travels in recent weeks, talking to clients about the business motivation model, I’ve been struck by the number of folks who have welcomed the BMM simply because it provides a definition and context for business planning terms like goal and objective. While many have tried to communicate their business plan to a wider [...]
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