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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. Lazy thinking: IT shibboleths, sloganeering, and sacred cows. At one company I worked, the executive team had come up with a list of core corporate values. There were 11 of these values, and they were mentioned and pushed in every company meeting. But here’s the thing:. The values, despite all their great qualities, became cliches, overused, cited on every conceivable occasion and for every possible purpose. Here’s where I’...
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Ethics Archives - CTO/CIO Perspectives
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. The CIO and integrity: this shouldn’t be hard, folks. Surprising and disturbing IT-related news crossed my Twitter feed last night: a well-known CIO is being sued for alleged fraud by his former firm. Allegations. Are that this senior executive received kickbacks from vendors that he helped connect to the company where he served as CIO and vice president. Columnist Ben Kepes wrote. The head of technology for many companies ...
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The case against #NoEstimates, part 2: why estimates matter - CTO/CIO Perspectives
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. The case against #NoEstimates, part 2: why estimates matter. I provided an introduction to a very odd and very vocal recent movement known as #NoEstimates. Which seeks ways to reduce or eliminate the use of estimates in software development. I started off my discussion of it by going through some basic common-sense business reasons to reject it. Those reasons for rejection boiled down to:. Estimates help in project selection.
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The CIO and integrity: this shouldn’t be hard, folks - CTO/CIO Perspectives
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. The CIO and integrity: this shouldn’t be hard, folks. Surprising and disturbing IT-related news crossed my Twitter feed last night: a well-known CIO is being sued for alleged fraud by his former firm. Allegations. Are that this senior executive received kickbacks from vendors that he helped connect to the company where he served as CIO and vice president. Columnist Ben Kepes wrote. The head of technology for many companies ...
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. Stop letting people just wing it at work. I wrote last time. About some cringeworthy comments overheard from developers talking to stakeholders, and I promised a follow-up that did some exposure of the other side. So here goes: rather than focus specifically on cringeworthy comments from stakeholders (I’ve covered some of these. Let’s talk a bit more generally, about ways that I’ve see stakeholders contributing to. As I go ...
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. IT and baseball: no silver heuristics. Along the lines of my last post. That discussed avoiding slogans and lazy thinking in IT, let’s talk about the increasingly popular word heuristic . I think we can all agree that developing software is anything but simplistic. So why aren’t we more skeptical when people propose adopting simplistic heuristics. Let’s look more closely at this manner of thinking, with a specific example.
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Estimating Archives - CTO/CIO Perspectives
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. IT and baseball: no silver heuristics. Along the lines of my last post. That discussed avoiding slogans and lazy thinking in IT, let’s talk about the increasingly popular word heuristic . I think we can all agree that developing software is anything but simplistic. So why aren’t we more skeptical when people propose adopting simplistic heuristics. Let’s look more closely at this manner of thinking, with a specific example.
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Avoiding the Rubber Stamp maintenance renewal syndrome - CTO/CIO Perspectives
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. Avoiding the Rubber Stamp maintenance renewal syndrome. As I discussed last time. Everything you add to your environment (hardware, software) costs money in recurring fees. Multiply that by dozens of invoices a week, 52 weeks a year. A few thousand dollars here, a few thousand there: as the saying goes, pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Well, free except for the 20% annual maintenance fee, which had been charged,.
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Starting points: downloadable tools for the quantitative CTO/CIO - CTO/CIO Perspectives
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Intensely practical tips on information technology management, by Peter Kretzman. Starting points: downloadable tools for the quantitative CTO/CIO. As described in this blog post. To start, you’ll find the following tools and templates, some very general, some specific to a particular problem:. Describing the approach and tool. Describing the approach and tool. An elaborate spreadsheet to perform detailed day-to-day resource allocation across multiple projects for a small team. Chris Curran blogs on IT m...
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