GIST is a manifesto about a way of making software development and digital transformation consulting.

Digital Transformation and software development are not oriented towards the market but rather towards one's own needs : the goal is not to be trendy but to be effective.

A gister consultant starts with a Preparatory Epic on 3 topics

• What are company missions ?
  • for each mission >> Describe process
  • for each process >> List all type of operational tools

When the gister consultant knows the list of operational tools used by the company, gister will describe all security alerts. For each alert the gister tells how to strengthen security while minimizing risks and works on a Business Continuity Plan in case of major crisis.

When the owner knows what his company is, gister consultant can work on what this company want to be. The Needs Epic will be based on 3 topics

• What the owner want to do
  • for each need >> Why owner wants to do this
  • for each reason >> How owner can do this

When the owner knows what his company wants to do, the gister consultant can start a list of Operational Epics responding to two rules :

1. All solutions does what I want, and doesn’t do what I don’t want
2. We must have an inventory of all data used and generated by our solutions

When the owner knows what his company will do, the gister consultant can start a set of Analytics Epics to imagine how we can use the data of company new IT solutions : company generated data make sense of our designed solutions and can indicate new business directions.