The trend is clear, more and more IT services are being delivered through as a service (XaaS) style offering. In a XaaS model all of the technical work is done by the XaaS provider rather than the corporate IT team. In addition most of the user support is being done by SMEs embedded within the business. These roles also often […]
Over the past few months I have heard myself say the words “I’m not an agile-ist but ….” an awful lot. I then continue to talk about some of the principles that I believe underpin our ability to deliver value through technology. These principles include: Focusing on delivering small quick projects because all the evidence suggests we can deliver small […]
For all of you who are regular readers of my blogs you will know that I am fairly obsessed with the notion of IT Value. This obsession stems from a belief that IT has huge potential to make our lives and organisations substantially better and that it is our job, as an industry, to ensure that this value is delivered. […]
I consider myself to be a strategist. I love the process of determining a goal/vision, diagnosing the current situation, understanding the gaps and working out a plan or an approach to bringing the goal to reality. The best part of my job is working with teams through this process, supporting their problem solving and facilitating a joint understanding of the […]
I have been thinking a lot about projects and project management lately. Why? Because effective project delivery is critical to delivering value from IT and as an industry we don’t do a great job of delivering our projects. We are all aware of the statistics. Most commentators report that 50% of our projects fail and to make matters worse the […]
Organisations are obsessed with projects. Every year they invest millions of dollars into projects presumably with the expectation that these projects will create value for them and support them to achieve their goals and visions. The problem is, projects seldom if ever actually deliver value and seldom if ever move organisations forward towards achieving their goals. I’m not saying this […]