Embracing change within the CGIAR

Embracing change.

Embracing Change with Extreme Programming

0018-9162/99/$10.00 © 1999 IEEE 70 Computer I n the beginning was the waterfall (Figure 1a). We would get the users to tell us once and for all exactly what they wanted. We would design the system that would deliver those features. We would code it. We would test to make sure the features were delivered. All would be well. All was not well. The users didn’t tell us once and for all exactly what...

Embracing Change: Financial Informatics and Risk Analytics

We present an enterprise design pattern for managing metadata in support of financial analytics packages. The complexity of financial modeling typically requires deployment of multiple financial analytics packages, drawing data from multiple source systems. Business domain experts are typically needed to understand the data requirements of these packages. Financial product innovation and resear...

Embracing chaos and complexity: a quantum change for public health.

Public health research and practice have been guided by a cognitive, rational paradigm where inputs produce linear, predictable changes in outputs. However, the conceptual and statistical assumptions underlying this paradigm may be flawed. In particular, this perspective does not adequately account for nonlinear and quantum influences on human behavior. We propose that health behavior change is...

Review on Agile Methodology: Embracing Change in Software Development

In last decade, various agile methods have been introduced and used by software industry. It has been observed that many practitioners are using hybrid of agile methods and traditional methods. Agile was created in large part in reaction to the predominant waterfall model, and to a lesser extent to all "traditional" methodologies. Thus, there is strong need of agile software development life cy...