Agile Web Vs. IS-417 Systems Design And Analysis
Almost everyone who reads these blogs are involved in a continually evolving market. The information market is very young and is constantly being refined and updated. Like most evolving market areas most of what we end up learning in class will be outdated by the time we are in a high paced front line IT job. This is especially true for certain classes offered and required by EMU's College of Business specifically the CIS department. Is this to say that we are wasting our money by taking required classes. Not exactly, Agile Web is a great concept, but my dad's business doesn't implement that process of producing systems if I understand him right. He is still mainly directed by the systems design life cycle, most of the time less that even that because of the demand of customers. So are the theories of agile the direction the market is moving or will it be an even more refined era of systems integration that it heads to? It is hard to tell but it will definately be notably important to be familiar with both.
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The real point though is not that agile is great, rather it's that project management is about mitigating risk. SDLC takes one approach to risk mitigation that relies on extensive pre-implementation planning. Agile takes another that relies on attemp... Read More
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This blog is part of the Fall 2007 Learning Remix community organized by Professor Bud Gibson of Eastern Michigan University's CIS Department
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The point though is that a variety of approaches are used in the market place. What you have to do is learn how to learn about them. That's what we're doing in this class.