The Black Box of IT with Thomas Nehring, Peter Debracy and Jeppe Hedaa – Decommissioning Legacy Systems
Decommissioning Legacy Systems – The Black Box of IT: A candid conversation with Executive Advisor Thomas Nehring and Principal Decommissioning Consultant Peter Debracy. Part 4 of my short series on opening the Black Box of Complex Systems Development.
The Black box of IT
To most people, their company’s IT department is a black box. This is especially true of complex systems development settings in large corporations, where hundreds and even thousands of IT specialists work together to serve the organization. I call it a black box...
Why your top IT specialists fail to deliver
Once you have recruited a high performer, how do you make sure that a person remains a high performer? IT performance is contextual; the way you organize employees will either increase or decrease team effectiveness. In other words, to get the best out of the...
Why IT project estimates fail and what to do about it
If you google “IT project estimate” you will end up with an endless assortment of methods and models, pictures and templates. Estimating the time and budget involved for a software development project is a challenge and hence there is a plethora of suggested...