In the past couple of days I’ve read a couple of articles (”IT can’t be a service provider and a partner too” and “Run IT as a business – why that’s a train wreck waiting to happen“) that riff on the same theme: that the exhortation to “run IT as a business” leads you down [...]
Posted by Neil Ward-Dutton on January 21, 2010
After an extended hiatus, we’re relaunching our podcasting efforts with a planned series of discussions focusing on the challenges and issues associated with software delivery processes and competence in enterprises. We’ve called this podcast series "Software Delivery InFocus", and it’s hosted by Bola Rotibi, MWD’s Principal Analyst for Software Delivery. Each podcast in the series [...]
Posted by admin on September 5, 2008
I just came across Steve Jones’ post, Nodding dog alignment – the perils of aligning to people not business, in which he points out the sad reality that many IT organisations which believe they are aligned with the business aren’t actually delivering value. Why? Because they are aligning with the wrong things. Instead of focusing [...]
Posted by admin on November 28, 2007