s more and more companies are embracing agile techniques to shorten their delivery timelines and create better synergies with their customers’ needs, the demand for tools to help manage the process has led to the evolution of tons of great agile project management and development tools. But with so many tools on the market, the process of finding the right one can be tricky. To help you decide,
Systems and networks are only as strong as their weakest links. Humans have long been identified as the leading cause of network breaches. With “5 new cyber threat samples being identified every second in Q1 of 2018” (McAfee), the human factor cannot and should not be underestimated…
Cyber and general informational security has been taking centre stage recently with the widely reported data and system breaches. The latest example is a South African Financial Services Provider, whose IT infrastructure security was breached and had segments of their data held for ransom. The trend is rising as malicious elements seek monetary gains through exploiting an organisation’s data. With data being this generations’ gold, the miners are out in full force. This ought to lead to cyber security requirements being inspected closer…
In any transformation journey it is important have a clear vision, strategy, road-map and goals to unite everybody and help drive the organisational change required. With these in place, digital transformation has the potential to unlock value in many areas of your business. Let’s explore five of these in more detail. Decision making Data is all around us, and everything we do generates more. Physical objects…
To survive and grow in today’s cutthroat business world, innovation, which previously may have felt like just another catchy buzzword, has become an absolute necessity. If you look at start-ups as an example, you’ll find that many manage to grab market attention initially due to an innovative idea, but soon after they find themselves in hot water as competitors, some who have been in the game…
Effective requirements elicitation is an area that is critical to the success of projects. Ironically, it is a process often overlooked by many analysts. This oversight can be costly to the project in terms of time and budget but, more importantly, could lead to incomplete requirements or, even worse, a failed project. What is project requirements elicitation? Elicitation is an active effort to extract…
Each year, new industry trends emerge which end up impacting not only on the way we do business, but also on the way we analyse problems and implement new ideas. At Analyze we decided to do a bit of market research to identify the trends that we think will be making waves in 2017. We looked at everything from technology innovations & product developments to evolving project methodologies and changing project roles…
So, it’s that time of year again when we reflect on the previous year, what made us happy, what made us sad, how could we change things for the better, how to gear up and be on the positive side of life for the new year etc. Since we live in the world of hashtags, #thingsthatshouldbeleftin2016 has been trending in the past while…appropriately so! This inspired me to think about what I wanted to leave in 2016 from a work and career…
American businessman, hedge fund manager & billionaire, Paul Tudor Jones, once said: “You adapt, evolve, compete or die”. Very strong words indeed, but in today’s constantly evolving business market, this is a harsh reality that all businesses need to face up to. Organisational agility is defined as a company’s ability to rapidly change or adapt to market changes. The higher your degree of agility, the better your chances…
With continuous improvement being the key to maintaining a competitive advantage, many companies are turning to software solutions to help streamline their business processes. But as much as software can help to reduce costs and improve productivity, selecting the wrong software vendor can have quite the opposite effect. Here are 7 questions we suggest…