Business Overview
The Aviarc approach
Aviarc is an agile development platform for Enterprise Small Systems consisting of software, methodologies and support. Core to the Aviarc approach is the Agility Center methodology that drives business-led innovation.
The Aviarc Agility Centre is unlike ordinary processes for developing business solutions, operating in three distinct phases to transform an idea into an innovation that ultimately becomes part of the organisation’s production environment.
Phase One – the Ideas Incubator – a half-day Idea Qualification workshop with the idea-owner, that optionally proceeds to a complete Idea Development exercise. The ideas incubator phase:
- Captures new ideas at their source and rapidly evaluates whether there is a business benefit in proceeding with the proposed innovation.
- Controls risk and cost with a cost-capped development of a pre-project prototype, or working model, of the innovation. This allows risk-aware organisations to innovate with confidence.
- Assists effective decision-making with cost-benefit analyses refined and improved along with the prototype. “The project never gets larger than its own rationale.”
- Solves business problems quickly by allowing for the rapid creation of prototypes – user interface screens are designed well ahead of all other development. These screens are then used as direct input to subsequent design and development episodes.
- Never gets away from the idea-owner by constant iteration to ensure that the prototype accurately reflects the system design needed to deliver the innovations, and hence benefits, contained in the original idea. In this phase change is good.
- Delivers a fully-costed, fixed price proposal for the development phase allowing a rapid go/no go decision to be made.
Phase Two – Innovation Delivery – the delivery of the innovation in line with the documented proposal and idea-owner’s original input. The Innovation Delivery phase:
- Leverages agile technology by using a world-class software development suite. The combination of agile development with enterprise fit has been recognised by the Butler Group, among others.
- Keeps the project on-track with systematic collection and modification of requirements. Aviarc maintains a central repository of requirements and deliverables.
- Adheres to the “do-it-once” philosophy inherent in the design of the Aviarc Development Suite. This ensures that friction between software development phases is minimised and development productivity is maximised.
- Provides automatically generated documentation, thereby eliminating one of the major developer headaches: keeping the documentation up to date.
Phase Three – Installation – the hand-over of the developed innovation to IT production. This phase:
- Provides seamless integration with existing IT infrastructure. Aviarc runs on industry standard IT architectures and supports all major database management systems. Delivery is by browser-only rich client, therefore no software is needed at the desktop.
- Scales with the business by utilising standard technology. Aviarc applications can scale as the business requirements grow, with the architectural limitation being database throughput.
- Provides enterprise-wide application portfolio management through the use of Aviarc’s central administration function.
- Integrates with existing security policy with in-built support for LDAP, database and role-driven authentication.
- Returns the management of IT to the experts. Many team leaders are becoming de facto IT administrators as they find their own solutions to business problems. By taking service delivery back to the IT department, business users can get back to conducting business.