To Change Your Results, Change How You Think

Everybody gets tired when management drones on about the need for better results...next year. We’ve all been forced to listen to the “suit on the soapbox” saying, “We must make a 20% increase in revenue,” “I want to raise the bottom line by 4%,” or “Don’t you think...

To Change Your Results, Change How You Think

Why People-Performance Numbers are Critical in IT Development

I love people, and I truly believe that every individual is amazing and valuable, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is the perfect IT enterprise architect or project manager. It is really important to find the perfect match to optimize your IT organization’s...

Why People-Performance Numbers are Critical in IT Development

People Crucial to IT Development Performance

When considering IT development performance, the most important aspect is people. The human element is by far the most performance-generating factor in your entire setup. Unfortunately, if you want to measure performance quantitatively, assigning a number to people...

People: Crucial to IT Development Performance

Factoring in Complexity in IT Performance

Complex Systems Development (large IT departments) is by definition complex. But it is vitally important for us to reduce this complexity in the areas where performance is most affected. In this post we look at how Culture, Methodology, Legacy Burden and Enterprise...

Factoring in Complexity in IT Performance

Organization is Only Easy on Paper

When you look at the entire company-wide IT program, you see an ocean filled with waves of projects. Each is constantly changing and presents its own issues and struggles. IT management requires willingness to take a deep dive into the details of many different...

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 your top IT specialists fail to deliver

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...

Any company could reduce IT costs

According to Jeppe Hedaa, CEO and owner of leading IT consulting agency 7N, companies could save more than 50-60 percent on their IT – and these numbers are not even aggressive.  Looking at the human factor only, the numbers become even more dramatic, says Hedaa....

Blog post - Any company could save at least 50-60% on IT spending

Why function points for IT budget estimates routinely fail

Forecasting time and costs for software development projects is often disturbingly difficult for senior management. Presently, there are several attempts to provide better cost control of software development projects, out of which function point analysis is...

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