In my day to day work in commercial IT, I find a variant on this aphorism
more appropriate:
You will need a solution to the more general problem. You will end
up doing a costly rip and replace to get it, unless you address it
now. Read
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The
Best Developers Can Make Poor Architects
I am frequently reminded of the quote "In a hierarchy every employee
tends to rise to his level of incompetence" from The Peter Principal.
I am reminded of this as I watch technical people get promoted into
areas of management. I have a handful of examples of managers that
I have run into who were promoted to (or above) their level of incompetence
that I will not subject you to.
Recently, I have seen crystal clear examples where this occurs even
within software development. Someone does not need to go outside of
software development and into management to be promoted to his or
her level of incompetence. There are plenty of opportunities to be
promoted to a level of incompetence within the software development
ranks. Read
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Avoiding
Enterprise Project Failures
Projects are no longer regarded as isolated units, but are interrelated
to one another within an enterprise and between enterprises for two
reasons:
- Increasing complexity of globally distributed networks
- Demands of highly competitive markets for faster and more efficient
deliveries and uninterrupted replenishment of high-quality products
for less cost to targeted points of the networks Read
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Breaking
Away: Creating Business Value through Information Technology
For any organization seeking to achieve high performance, the role
of information technology has never been more vital. The extraordinary
abundance and easy accessibility of information mean that its very
nature is changing. The tools and technologies used today to gather
and share information are contributing to an ever-expanding list of
new uses for information, in both business and government. Meanwhile,
increasingly advanced, cheaper computing power and data storage have
simplified the management of this avalanche of words, numbers and
images.
These forces have combined to give companies an unprecedented opportunity
to use IT to create business value, the ultimate standard for measuring
high performance. For most companies, this will involve three steps:
reassessing their information technology plan and approaches; investing
carefully to support their IT plan; and mastering the capabilities
needed to realize that plan. Read
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Report:
CIOs Must Sit at Management's Table
The best IT organizations are run by administrators who have immediate
access to top executives and have input on the running of the business.
And whether or not the CIO reports directly to the CEO matters much
less so. Read
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Report:
Top companies spend less on IT, more on outsourcing
The best-performing IT departments typically spend less on technology
and personnel and take different approaches to outsourcing than do
their peers, according to an examination of 200 customer benchmarks
being released Monday by The Hackett Group. Top-rated IT operations
on average spend 18% less per end user on technology and operate with
36% fewer staffers than average companies, according to Hackett's
benchmarking study. The information in the report is drawn from an
analysis of customer benchmarking tests that The Hackett Group conducted
over the past 18 months. The data for this study was gathered in March. Read
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