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Organisational context: Group Information Services (GIS)

'Group (ISD) [now GIS] has a Development Manual defining procedures, techniques and standards for systems development. It covers the project development cycle and maintenance comprehensively but does not address strategy setting or business planning which are carried out in a conventional way by the ISD Steering Committee and individual businesses. Group has carried out joint strategy setting with business managers in the past using a method promoted by IBM. The systems development method is home-grown being originally developed from current practice in XUK and XLife and continually refined over the years.

The work in ISD is project based and the method provides little indication of the flow of documents between project stages or specific responsibilities other than that of the independent Quality Assurance function.

The method covers traditional development, structured methods and rapid development techniques for smaller projects. There is limited support to the method from automated tools.'

X003 page 014.01 Darren Document 06/09/90

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