Security Requirements

Security specific requirements for the project. Assessment of changes on existing system security. The confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) model is widely used by organisations to implement appropriate security controls and policies, which helps identify key problem areas and the necessary solutions to resolve these issues. Access Control and Authorisation: Role-based access mechanisms and strict … Read more

What should you look for in a data maturity model?

Becoming a data-driven business doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time, money, and effort to develop the combination of knowledge, skills, and technological proficiency needed to weave business intelligence into the cultural fabric of your organisation. It’s a journey: one with many steps and milestones along the way. To reach your destination safely, you need a guide. … Read more

Avoiding Architectural Debt

In Agile design, teams work in short sprints and prioritise the most important features to be developed first. Value-based prioritisation allows startups to get a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) to market quickly and start gathering feedback from customers. Additionally, and by definition, Agile design encourages safe-to-fail experimentation early on in the product’s lifecycle, giving the designer quick … Read more

How Unarticulated Needs Direct the Evolutionary Path of Agile Designs

The traditional design methods, which assume that developers fully understand the user’s requirements and that the user knows what they want before seeing the product, are often flawed in the real world. Complex systems, such as software products and their users, constantly evolve and adapt to users’ changing needs and preferences. As users interact with a software product, … Read more

A Measure of Good Design

A measure of good design is how dependent higher structures are on lower ones, and this is closely related to the principle of separation of concerns and cohesion. Cohesion is a measure of how closely the elements of a module or component work together to achieve a single, well-defined purpose. When a system is well-designed, the higher structures … Read more