An introduction to Information Technology Processes

Planning is an unnatural process, everyone wants to be where "the action" takes place, and generally people associate planning with a waste of time, but how a John Harvey Jones' famous quote says "the nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise".

Inspired by these ideas and my work experience, I am introducing this new series of entries called "ABC of the Information Technology Processes", as my writing for day 2 of the #HashnodeBootcamp, but let is get a bit.

What do you mean by processes?

A process is a set of interrelated activities that transform some inputs into outputs with more value. In simple word, is the way you do something.

A simple example is when you are doing a drawing... clearly is a process ⬇️

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We can talk about two direct relations between processes and Information Technology:

  1. The development of technology in order to optimize the manual processes in any industry, and here we can name, one of the most used, the ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning).

  2. The analysis of the process that covers the Information Technology spectrum. For example, in software development, we could take the QA phase like a process because the tester receives an software(input) they make the testing procedure, and finished with the release testing (output) that certifies the quality of the software. This second approach is the one we are going to focus on in this series.

What comes next?

In the next entries I will be sharing with you the basic ideas about the Information Technology Processes, which includes but is not reduced to the following:

  • What is the analysis of the Information Technology Processes?

  • Processes and Procedures, what are the differences?

  • What has to do with developers?

  • Agile methodologies and Information Technology Processes

  • Planification and control related to

  • ITIL and COBIT applied to Information Technolgy Processes

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