The Future Of The IT Department
Recently I have been witness to rapid, often painful, change within my own internal IT division over the last few years and observed the on-going developments in the industry. It is clear that IT...
View ArticleIs Your Gym Like Your Dev Team?
I recently managed to drag myself out of the office and into the gym, but unfortunately my mind was still on the office and my observations of what makes a dev team tick. In between sets I observed my...
View ArticleEmbedding Pro-Active Tasks In Your Dev Team
We have made huge advances over recent years in the tools available to the development team, including the more proactive and investigative tools (profiling tools, code analysis, performance analysis,...
View ArticleEnterprise IT Project Insanity
A study published in the Harvard Business Review has again shown that many IT projects continue to come in late and over budget. In addition it shows that there is a higher than expected number of...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Kanban
Recently I introduced Kanban to an inflight development project with the objective of trialling this technique with a hope to raising productivity by overcoming various communication and process...
View ArticleA Trial Kanban Project – What Worked. What Didn’t.
Recently I introduced Kanban to an inflight development project with the objective of trialling this technique with the team to raise productivity by overcoming various communication and process...
View ArticleIt’s All About Culture (Enterprise IT Beware)
This interesting post by PEG recently highlights an organisations culture as being in reality the only differentiating factor that they have. In his view assets, IP, cost competitiveness, brand and...
View ArticleThe Growth Of Business IT
In my popular post on “The Future of the IT Department” I covered how IT is changing rapidly in enterprises and touched on how business aligned IT teams are going to become more relevant. Some of these...
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