Your skill in using just six techniques in appropriate combinations to address different situations is the measure of your IT agility. I call these the core techniques. Just as a game like basketball is composed of a small group of core techniques such as dribbling, passing, guarding and shooting, so too is the game of developing information systems.

The skill levels of project teams can be measured by their capabilities in these techniques. By employing these techniques, a project team will always be able to produce competent (and sometimes even brilliant) results. These six techniques are a simple yet comprehensive set of skills that can be taught and mastered by people involved in building systems. These core techniques are:

  1. Joint applications design (JAD)
  2. Process mapping
  3. Data modeling
  4. System prototyping
  5. Object oriented design and programming
  6. System testing and rollout.

There are other techniques that may be relevant from time to time, but these six core techniques are always relevant in every situation regardless of the technology being used or the problems being addressed. The best practitioners of IT agility are competent in all of them and masters of some of them…

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