Responsive IS

Migration to a Responsive IS Organization

Course Goals

	Understand the theory and practice of a responsive, adaptive, IS organization.
	Explore the various practices and techniques employed by effective IS organizations.
	Experience the power of responsibility-based collaboration and modeling.

Description

A responsive, adaptive, IS organization needs to understand the implications of change across many organizational dimensions and levels. Conventional requirement-gathering, analysis, design, implementation, deployment, and maintenance techniques do not respond well to the rapidly-changing needs of large, complex organizations and the fast-moving world of electronic commerce. This three-day workshop introduces an iterative, incremental and integrative technique which provides both organizational structure for effective partnering and system structure for responsive functionality. The concept of responsibility domain bridges the worlds of organizational development and system development. Role Modeling is used to negotiate and document the relationships among responsibility domains. The models support simulation and walkthroughs, quickly building confidence that a task is under control. Attendees will develop and role-play a role model to gain an appreciation for the ability of this technique to resolve turf issues and respond quickly to changes in requirements.

Topics

	Convergence problems in large organizations
	The relationship between organization structure and system structure
	Virtual teams, responsibility domains and object-orientation as examples of encapsulation for flexibility and manageability
	Role modeling: Roles, Responsibilities, Collaborations
	Animate (people, team, group, organization) and inanimate (system, document, machine) roles
	Role modeling exercise.
	Following through with responsive system implementation
	Role models as maintainable knowledge bases
	I³ Lifecyle: Iterative, Incremental, Integrative
	Introducing these techniques in your organization

Audience

IS managers, business process analysts, change agents, system analysts and designers, information modelers, and project leaders involved in complex IS projects.

Prerequisites

	Responsibility for a significant portion of a complex IS-related endeavor
	Frustration with the instabilty, lack of timely convergence and inflexibility of conventional system analysis and development techniques in corporate environments.

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