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Published here November 2015

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Book Structure

The content of this book is set out in four sections covering twelve chapters and one Appendix as follows:

Preface

SECTION 1: Discovery, scope and defining business solutions

 

1.

Identifying Scope and Solutions: Are we doing the Right Things?

 

2.

Evolution of Scope on a Project

 

3.

Stakeholder Engagement and Involvement

 

4.

Implications of Business Architecture

SECTION 2: Mid-flight change control

 

5.

Requirements Development Life Cycle

 

6.

Governance

SECTION 3: Applying project and Architecture methodologies

 

7.

Implications of Agile on scope

 

8.

Waterfall

 

9.

Enterprise architecture

SECTION 4: Implementation and beyond

 

10.

Roll-out: Marketing and socializing the solution

 

11.

Handing over to operations (BAU)

 

12.

Decommissioning and sun-setting

Appendix A: Sample document templates

For the most part, the book is well written with a clear and convincing style, but with occasional bursts of unnecessarily long sentences and long paragraphs. The book is well illustrated with bullet lists, diagrams, and short case studies interspersed in the text to emphasize the surrounding message. Each chapter is supported by a list of references. The book has a total of 260 pages including Appendix A, which provides some eighteen templates and layouts. The book does not have a Glossary of Terms.

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