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 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...
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 people...
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 solutions...
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. By...
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 probably...
