Agile Australia addresses IT risk management
Governance is best defined as the rules for losing and a contract is a shopping list of the punishment to be meted out, according to Lonely Planet IT manager, Nigel Dalton, reports CIO.com.
The comments emerged during the 'Engaging for agile' panel at the Agile Australia conference in Melbourne. The panel discussed several issues to convince various stakeholders to adopt agile methods, including governance and risk management, and securing finance and stakeholders for a project.
Dalton said: “We've lived through these whole revenge cycles of a very poorly failed technology project several years ago, which is how we came to agile”. He said governance and risk management is addressed by agile methods to prioritise the project functions to be delivered, and also the 'stand-up' where staff regularly explains their work to their peers.
IBM to acquire OpenPages
IBM announced plans to acquire OpenPages, in a move the company said would expand its business analytics capabilities to support compliance and risk management processes, states Security Search.com.
IBM's message right now is to keep OpenPages operating on its own with deeper integration plans in the future, says Chris McClean, an analyst at Cambridge, Forrester Research. Integration points could be with IBM's WebSphere application server and Tivoli software line.
"Integrating risk management systems across once-divided units and functions is essential to seeing the bigger picture," Rob Ashe, IBM's general manager, business analytics, said in a statement.
Strategist urges firms to address risk
A leading international management strategist says modern organisations need to pay more attention to managing risk as many were not undertaking the task well, reports Sydney Morning Herald.
Harvard Business School Professor Robert Kaplan made the comments while in Australia to speak about the latest developments to his Kaplan-Norton Balanced Scorecard management system.
The system, which helps identify and manage a company's intangible assets, is used by more than 50% of Fortune 500 companies.
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