Open Methodology Framework

There are many commonalities in approach when things are done well, just as there are when things are done poorly. Methodologies try and provide repeatable approaches on how to do things well, based on established techniques. The Open Methodology Framework goes beyond the standards, techniques and best practices that are common to most methodologies in order to:

• Encourage Collaborative User Engagement
• Provide a Framework for Innovation
• Balance Release Stability with Continuous Improvement

We believe this approach provides a framework for how things can be done better in a collaborative fashion that focuses not only on method but detailed technology artifacts. The areas of focus are on emerging areas where current methods and technologies are immature or insufficient.

The MIKE2.0 Methodology

Thus far our focus has been on creating the MIKE2.0 Methodology to help organisations better manage their data.

We believe this whilst organisations have spent the last few decades building new systems and infrastructure, there has been an insufficient focus on how data should be managed in these systems. We believe this has resulted in many of the business problems faced by organisations today around compliance, transformation failures and the high cost of technology systems. Our vision is to make MIKE2.0 a methodology for organisations that want to focus on Information Development as much as Application Development.

The Open Methodology Framework

We believe we're in the early stages of providing an Open Methodology Framework, with the goal of building a generalised model from the approach we are following in MIKE2.0. We've taken much of our inspiration from Wikipedia and there are similarities between the Open Methodology and Wikipedia, but some of our goals are different.

As far as we know, MIKE2.0 is the world’s first open and collaborative methodology. It will be an interesting challenge for our community to see if we can actually build on this approach, which sits between a Wikipedia-style model and something you would see with code.

For our initial release, we've kept it simple. We've removed quite a bit of initially planned functionality to keep MIKE2.0 focused and until we have a better idea on how the overall approach will work.

Our first priority is to greatly improve MIKE2.0 - this is primary focus of the individuals currently involved in the Open Methodology project. In addition, we would like to begin to build out new ideas for other collaborative methodologies.

We believe this as the first step in a long running-effort. We know our approach will change over time and we hope others will get involved in contributing to our approach.