An industry standard architecture framework that may be used freely by any organization wishing to develop an information systems architecture for use within that organization.

Agile methods minimize risk by developing software in short time boxed iterations: each including the tasks necessary to release mini-increments of functionality: planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation. Agile methods emphasize real time communication, preferably face-to-face, over written documents. (resulting in some criticism of agile methods as being undisciplined hacking).

The Agile Alliance is a non-profit organisation that supports individuals and organisations who use agile approaches to develop software. The priorities are articulated in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

Examples of 'Agile methods' include eXtreme Programming (XP), SCRUM, Crystal and at from a slightly more corporate perspective Dynamic Systems Development Methodology (DSDM).

Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

Capability Maturity Models provide a framework for evaluating and improving various processes using a scale of 1-5. It was developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). CMMs have been developed for a range of disciplines including: systems engineering, software engineering, software acquisition, workforce management and development, and integrated product and process development. To address the problem of several CMMs, and to provide a more focused approach to improvement, the SEI developed "Capability Maturity Model Integration" (CMMI).

Iterative software development methodology created by Rational (now part of IBM). It has a large number of activities and artifacts from which an approach is tailored based on the projects characteristics. Popular with software houses and large online projects.

Six Sigma is a statistically focused quality management approach to defect reduction. It aims to reduce the number of failures in quality or customer satisfaction to less than 3.4 parts per million (6 standard deviations- hence Six Sigma) .

Process models for the Supply Chain

Process models for Telecom's

XMI standard for model interchange

Meta integration

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The industry body for IT professionals, and a Chartered Engineering Institution for Information Technology (IT).

Electronic Business Network Group (EBN)

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