The topic of my next book. Governance of IT is poor: businesses ask too much of IT too fast. IT is crumbling. We need to ease up so that IT has the headspace to make improvements so as to respond more quickly to the demands
Meet in the Middle
Slow IT Fast IT
Demand
Portfolio
Projects
Build
Deploy
Optimise
Protect Serve
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Editor's Notes
Tension between protecting the existing investment in information and technology assets,
and serving change, the new
A balancing act
Why do we have such a sucky project reputation?
We do too many
So we underfund them
Especially we underfund people and process relative to tech
If we spend the right amount on people and process we’d have to kill some
Free up the money to do the others properly
Eating BAU to deliver change
People are breaking
Forget technology rate of change which keeps accelerating
Humans, culture and organisations have a limit
Changing faster than people within IT and consuming IT can manage
Putting the organisation at risk
IT must speak up
How?
The governors must understand their responsibilities wrt IT
And they must understand the risk to the organisation
Then it is their informed decision
How to decide properly
With a service portfolio
Not a project portfolio
Take into account the effect on BAU
Not every organisation wants or needs to change at breakneck speed
America has this fixation with competitiveness
Compete or die
And quarterly results
We’re getting swept up in the hysteria
Take the german or japanese manufacturers
They play the long game
Not slow food
Or slow business
Slow IT:
deliberately provocative
Really mean SLOWER IT
at a rate that IT can sustain delivery
And the org can absorb delivery
And the quid pro quo?
What does the business get in return?
More successful projects
Safer organisational change
And FASTER DELIVERY
How?
Finally time to do CSI: 10%
And Kaizen
: traditional outsourcing, Cloud, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS...
And Scrum
And Kanban
And Scrumban
And…
fast, iterative, incremental development