To many requirements
Are your requirements gathering like a making a wishlist for Christmas?
In this episode Casimir Artmann talks about when you have to many requirements and the consequences for business.
Less IT is more
Less is more is an old truism, but what happens if we apply this to IT?
How would the enterprise work if we took away all IT systems that doesn't give benefits to your customers, with the exception for legal requirements?
It's a turn-key solution
You make a tender, evaluate their different bids and then select a supplier based on a set of criteria. The supplier then provide a turn-key solution and the only thing you have to do it accept the final delivery. How hard can it be?
Do you need a program architect?
With larger programs, there are three challenges where you would benefit from a program architect or a technical program manager.
- Alignment of IT-solutions done by different streams in the program
- Alignment of new solutions with existing systems
- Alignment of IT-solutions with changed business solutions.
Optimist, pessimist or realist?
This is a delicate problem.
You are the bride's best friend and you are not comfortable with her choise of husband. The wedding is next week and the the question is if to say anything or not.