Building a Monitoring Capability

I was honored to deliver a presentation at the National WIC Association on May 3. The title of the presentation was "Building a Monitoring Capability". I used one of my recently completed development projects as a framework for:

• Constructing a Business Case
• Marching through Requirements and Design
• Demonstrating the V-model
• Discussing Contract types
• Considering Development Life-cycles and
• Being proactive with Training

Overall the presentation was well-received. I got to see some of the people from my travels around the country. I also heard that the program was pleased to have someone from IT talking about the very specific tools and processes that are necessary for an application development project.

But this is what we as IT people should be doing. We have to get out into the business. If we have something that works we have a responsibility to help people to understand that and to leverage it. Here, in my project, I was successful and I now have a good sense of how that success can be replicated. I'm putting this on my blog to share it with you as well. I know that it lacks a soundtrack, but much of the content is self explanatory. I hope you can find a nugget or two.