So, what is the Procession® Approach?
• Packaged software often does not work the way the organisation wants to work, and is hard to customise.
• Conversely, bespoke software is expensive, time-consuming, suffers from interpretation gap and the end result is just a bespoke package.
• In either case, response to change is slow and costly. Invariably, the commercial case behind the need to change requires a swift response and a quick first pass at a solution that can then be honed later on based on experience, i.e. the continual improvement model.
• All the answers need to be known up front, which they never are, so compromise is inevitable. In real life, we normally know only what we know at the beginning and need to be able to run with that, with some assumptions, until we have learnt more by doing – business software development desperately needs to support this approach.
• IT has generally ended up with a very bad reputation for moving slowly, not delivering to the requirements and being a change inhibitor.
• There is too much room for misinterpretation in most development approaches, because the process is so drawn out and time-consuming.
• Large projects require an army of people to deliver and are costly to run. Vendors have become wise to this and their business models are often optimised to maximise their earnings from this process as much as possible.
• Many development methodologies exist, mostly with documents about other documents, etc. all taking too long and often being far too dry or too technical to offer a good opportunity for providing feedback from the business people – the people who are usually either going to benefit or suffer from the end result.
• There is too much siloisation, with lots of separate technologies that tend to over complicate everything and generally do not properly integrate.
• There is not enough automation – there are far too many systems that just record information and do very little of the work themselves. This is definitely not the limit of what technology is capable of.
• Very limited visibility of what the software is doing, and the business logic that has been configured inside it, makes decision making difficult and leads to a general fear of change in the organisation.
• The IT industry has overcomplicated the process of building systems, due to ‘specialist menace’, which has alienated business people - a simple more effective way of working is needed.
More about Procession®:
• Procession® - why is a new approach needed?
• What is the Procession® solution?
• Are there any limitations to Procession®?
• Procession® Case Studies: UK Sport | British Olympic Association | Bank Of Scotland
Procession® has been designed to drastically reduce the time, cost and pain required to create business applications that work exactly the way you want them to, and that can change as your business changes.
If you need to quickly deploy a system that is agile and easy to change without re-coding and that is powerful enough to drive the heart of your organisation, then book a demonstration with us to find out more using the form on the right, email us at contact@eximium.com or call us today on 01582 439720 for further details.
