Biography Dick is Salamander’s Chief Technology Officer. He has more than fifteen years development and consulting experience in industry, defence and the wider public sector. He is interested in visual methods and tools for improving the coherence, agility and performance of organisations. In the mid 1990s, Dick co-founded MooD International and the Salamander Organization Limited. Since that time, his focus has combined a keen involvement in method and tool development with programme assignments across a range of corporate clients. Prior to working with Salamander, Dick achieved a D.Phil in Computer Science at the University of York after which he worked as a lecturer in the Department. During this time he managed a successful research team addressing innovative project support environments, publishing a number of research papers and books, including Database Systems Engineering (Oxford University Press, 1987), which became a standard undergraduate text within many universities.

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Exploiting Architecture Methods and Tools to Deliver Business Benefit - Using the MooD Transformation Toolset in a Complex Defence Programme
A large and complex programme is typically managed and controlled using a diverse collection of plans, spreadsheets, briefing presentations, architecture documents and other materials. These resources are notoriously difficult to keep aligned. Consequently, the various stakeholders’ views are disparate, and it is difficult to achieve a coherent understanding of development and progress. This contributes considerably to programme risk - of gaps, poor decision-making, overlapping activity and disconnection.

Applying an architecture approach to both the programme and to the capability under development can address this by creating a coherent view of the whole, providing a common

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