I've a similar requirement in a dissimilar scenario.
I'm an architect and work in an enterprise environment that's obsessed at the minute (to put it mildly) with Agile. A typical project will use Pivotal to capture requirements, track progress and manage changes.
Project plans are non-existent, and a vague project schedule is done in Excel to convince the project sponsor to authorize the work.
The result is big surprise all around when release one is unusable because the hipster tech doesn't integrate with Active Directory, the awesome server push engine doesn't resolve clients behind NAT, and a change to a business rule requires two weeks' refactoring.
The team has talent, but they lack direction. What I need is something that a). captures high level requirements, b). does some basic risk management (plan, track, control) and c). does some stakeholder management so that the team knows whom in the organisation to ask about things like hosting.
It's a surprisingly awesome place to work. Everyone WANTS to be successful, do the right thing and have that awesome success story on their CV (resume).
The problem here is more one from up high. The CIO has decided that GMail, the iPhone, SCRUM, Ruby, Zend and Mongo are where it's at, kindof bypassing the CTO who has to manage a legacy estate that operates on AD, Oracle, SQL Server, Java and .NET.
Culturally it's really good - everyone seems to feel really empowered, they have real talent but it's a young team so they lack experience.
I'm glad I work here.
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I'm an architect and work in an enterprise environment that's obsessed at the minute (to put it mildly) with Agile. A typical project will use Pivotal to capture requirements, track progress and manage changes.
Project plans are non-existent, and a vague project schedule is done in Excel to convince the project sponsor to authorize the work.
The result is big surprise all around when release one is unusable because the hipster tech doesn't integrate with Active Directory, the awesome server push engine doesn't resolve clients behind NAT, and a change to a business rule requires two weeks' refactoring.
The team has talent, but they lack direction. What I need is something that a). captures high level requirements, b). does some basic risk management (plan, track, control) and c). does some stakeholder management so that the team knows whom in the organisation to ask about things like hosting.