The document discusses challenges with traditional IT project management including budget and schedule overruns and lack of clear business objectives. It identifies top contributors to project failure as unclear objectives, unrealistic schedules, and shifting requirements. The document proposes adopting agile methodology, emphasizing collaboration between business and IT, and leveraging cloud, open source, and automation to enable faster, cheaper, and more flexible delivery of business functionality.

1. From Idea to
Implementation
Speeding the delivery of business functionality to the end user.

2. Current IT Management Challenges
• The average large IT project runs 45% over budget, 7% over time, and
delivers 56% less value than expected.
• 1 in 6 IT projects has an average cost overrun of 200% and a schedule
overrun of 70%.
• 45% admit they are unclear on the business objectives of their IT projects.
• 78% stated their project requirements are usually or always out of sync
with the business.
• 75% of IT project leaders believe their projects are “doomed from the
start.”
• 17% of large IT projects (budgets >= 10 million) go so badly they threaten
the existence of the company.
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3. Top Contributors to IT Project Failure
• Unclear objectives
• lack of business focus / lack of business direction
• Unrealistic schedule
• reactive planning
• Shifting requirements
• Inflexible to change
• Technical complexity
• Misaligned teams
• missing skills
• Unexplained causes
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4. Faster and Cheaper
• Business demands change rapidly and so should IT
• Rapid change need not come at a premium
• Iterate between business and IT, team effort
• Do not re-invent the wheel / Embrace Open Source
• Managed approaches to the use of Open Source
• Look to contribute to Open Source.
• Consider Cloud as a platform
• Managed
• No hardware costs
• No maintenance
• Excellent services (deployment included)
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Business IT Collaboration
• Use Cases.
• Clear direction from the business.
• Collaborative discussions.
• IT is a service to the business.
Development
• Agile methodology
• Bottom-up approach
• TDD
• Unit Testing
• Regression Testing
• Continuous Integration
• Develop / Test / Deploy
Deployment
• Automated
• Consistent
• Quality Assurance
• Technology Operations

6. Business IT Collaboration
• Mike Lee
• Senior UX Designer
• mike.lee@eikospartners.com
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7. Development
• Erica Gucciardo
• erica.gucciardo@eikospartners.com
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8. Deployment
• Ernie Salazar
• ernie.salazar@eikospartners.com
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9. Deployment Cycle Demo
gitpush
gitpull
remote ‘git pull’
update ui
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10. What needs to change?
• Business users and IT need to collaborate
• Agree on features, be flexible to changes in requirements or technical
complexity
• Business sponsorship
• Alignment of skills to appropriate work
• Ensure that the teams deployed to implement something are well suited to
the job.
• Agility
• Starts with the business
• IT has to be nimble, responsive to the needs of their clients.
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11. Core Elements
• Collaboration between ideas team and Implementation team
• Flexible infrastructure that can bend to the demands of the business.
• Small iterations, fast to fail, fast to succeed
• Regression Testing
• Automation of deployments to multiple platforms
• Browser
• Mobile
• Desktop
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12. Key Elements
• Framework solutions
• Tooling (Assembla, Slack, GIT, JIRA, etc.)
• Open Source libraries.
• Window Manager JS
• Scale JS
• Angular2
• React
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13. Keys to success
• Full engagement with the business users
• Clear and concise Use Cases
• These are changeable as the business changes.
• IT that collaborates with the Business
• IT is a service to support business.
• Continuous Integration is key.
• Code check-in
• Code regression testing
• Code deployment
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14. How can we help?
• This is what we do
• 100’s of years of experience
• We mentor teams
• Improve productivity
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15. Any Questions?
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