IT Management

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Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid: An IF4IT Framework for Choosing Delivery Methodology

Delivery methodology is not an enterprise preference; it is a fit decision determined by the nature of the Product or Service being delivered. When organizations force all work through Agile, Waterfall, or a convenien...

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Enterprise Inventory Management Best Practices

Enterprise Inventory Management establishes governed, authoritative inventories that collectively form a connected Enterprise Model. The practices in this document help organizations define ownership, improve accuracy...

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SDLC Maturity Levels Explained — Crawl, Walk, Run

Crawl, Walk, Run is not a maturity score to chase or a slide from a consulting deck — it is a working discipline for matching the rigor of SDLC practice to what a given piece of work actually demands. Enterprises that...

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Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Best Practices

The IF4IT Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) is an IT management governance framework for leaders and managers—not merely a software-development process. It provides a comprehensive, tailorable 13-phase lifecycle fo...

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Technical Debt Management Best Practices

Technical Debt Management is the IT Management discipline for governing technical conditions and unresolved obligations that make governed Assets more costly, difficult, risky, or constrained to change, operate, secur...

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The IF4IT Enterprise Model and Modeling Best Practices

The IF4IT Enterprise Model and Modeling Best Practices explains how enterprises can design, govern, and use an AI-consumable semantic Enterprise Model that represents what the enterprise has, how those things relate,...

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Value Streams Inventory and Attributes

The Value Streams Inventory is the governed enterprise record of the end-to-end flows through which the organization delivers value to stakeholders. Without it, enterprises cannot reliably see how value is delivered,...