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Category Archives: IT Management
One-Way Risk and Robustness of IT Projects
The Agile Manager has a great post on One-Way Risk and Robustness of IT Projects. It calls for “more robustness in risk management” within IT projects. However, it’s critical of risk management that is “limited to maintaining a ‘risks and issues’ … Continue reading
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One-Way Risk and Robustness of IT Projects
The Agile Manager has a great post on One-Way Risk and Robustness of IT Projects. It calls for “more robustness in risk management” within IT projects. However, it’s critical of risk management that is “limited to maintaining a ‘risks and issues’ … Continue reading
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Note to self: do ERP vendors benefit from the sunk cost fallacy and asset specificity?
I’ve never really been very interested in ERPs – so I likely don’t know what I’m talking about… But over the years there have been many times I’ve heard organisations saying they need to “leverage their investment” in their ERP. This … Continue reading
David Heinemeier’s ‘Unlearn Your MBA’ talk at Stanford
This is nice. My favourite section: “There’s no management when we’re three people. There’s no management when we’re 15 people. We still don’t have any managers hired in 37signals. Every single one of us are producers. I’m still a producer. … Continue reading
Agile Manager on the risk of a Lean IT Financial Crisis
Interesting: “Accounting rules dictate that inception has to be funded out of SG&A. What this means is that before we can spend out of a capital budget, we must spend some SG&A money first. It’s also important to bear in … Continue reading
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Project Managers Should Not Fear the Baseline | CIO – Blogs and Discussion
There is some wisdom in Jim Vaughan’s article and the related comments: The poor performance of the project usually has less to do with the project manager or the project team and more to do with the systemic failures of … Continue reading
IT Outsourcing – How to avoid it or make it work for you
I often read a lot of bitter comments on news articles – such as this one – when a new IT outsourcing arrangement hits the press. The reader comments often appear to miss the whole point of outsourcing and in … Continue reading
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Technocracy and Politicisation
I’ve mentioned one of my theories before: I have a theory that whenever a single specialisation becomes the dominate or controlling specialisation it turns the coordination into a technocracy. I might be using technocracy in the wrong sense but I’m … Continue reading
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No wrong way to slice the pie? (and do you even know?)
Management, as a discipline, has a problem it can”t solve. It needs to coordinate separate but related activities caused by the division of labour. And it needs to be able to do this regardless of how labour is divided. Project … Continue reading