IPDS Guide - Evidenced Activities

The Final Test of Professional Competence

Managing an iterative process

For the iterative process you are asked to ‘revisit’ a piece of work and undertake further work on it until the needs of the organisation or client are met. An iterative process is a process where you are responding to feedback from a person or people and reworking according to that feedback.

Examples

  1. You may have a group of clients who have asked you to research a specific issue, such as developing systems controls, and to make recommendations on how to implement this in their organization. After making your report the clients are still concerned about one particular aspect and how it might be perceived by the organization. You are, therefore, required to research that issue in more depth and return with additional, more detailed recommendations.

  2. You have written a report on introducing a new IT system for your manager. He wants more emphasis placed on performance reporting. You need to go back and rewrite this report.

In your planning statement include a description of the situation, explaining why further work is required.

Evidence might include, notes taken from a meeting on the work, examples from documents where changes have been made (the whole document is not always necessary), a completed questionnaire.

For the iterative process you must include:

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