How to Retain IT Talent with Goal Alignment
Back in 1990, I was hired by the principals of a start-up company (Pages Software) to build an engineering team from scratch to create a
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Back in 1990, I was hired by the principals of a start-up company (Pages Software) to build an engineering team from scratch to create a
Last week, I talked about IT project risk management and gave a real-world example of doing it wrong, with the expected consequences. But some organizations
IT projects are typically full of risks. There can be many human factors, many external factors, and many unknown factors, all of which can interact
When an IT project starts, those involved – both managers and developers – want to feel that they’re making progress. They also want to demonstrate
Many years ago, computer author Gerald Weinberg famously said that if builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came
The other day, an IT colleague of mine mentioned a conflict at a corporation where he’s working. The corporation has a mission-critical application deployed across
Last week, I talked about some of the reasons why large organizations often reject the best solutions for a troubled IT project: fear, pride, budget,
Over lunch the other day, Barry Glasco (a colleague) and I were reminiscing about corporate IT projects that we’d worked on as consultants over the
One of my current favorite books is Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicolas Taleb. Taleb’s thesis, which he explains and defends well, is that we