Read PMOs and Sysiphus here.Bureaucracy is a tool used to control.It controls change and controls compliance with defined standards and it tries to control how people do thier jobs. Bureacracy is by it’s nature fairly change resistant.When Randy Englund uses Lewin’s rubber band metaphor to describe how change only lasts as long as the tension is maintained, I found myself agreein...
This was new to me;Perks’ 1st Law of IT Integration:IT components that are not designed to fit together and form a working system only do fit together by chance.I found it in a slide deck called The sins of IT projects and why they fail (some times) by Maurice Perks. It has an accompanying video also.It also has this quote by Charles Darwin;It is not the strongest of the species that survi...
Dan Ward wrote a thesis on values and how they contribute to project success. His thesis is that success is correlated with a set of values he tags with the acronym F.I.S.T: Fast, Inexpensive, Simple and Tiny.Dan works in defense where many projects span decades and yeild little value for taxpayers (beyond jobs in regional areas, maybe.) His work argues against an embedded bias towards...
I spoke again at the Busniess Analyst Symposium in Canberra on Monday. It was interesting being in the city and hearing the stories of governement project workers. They have a very different story to the ones you hear in the private sector. All respect due to people working in tough contexts.Anyway - you have seen the initial draft of the presentation I did, plus the Prezi versio...
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