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Failure is not an option
Why do Digital Transformations fail? Why is it that transformations fail? Why is the blame often laid at the door of IT? It’s not (always) your fault Let’s not pretend failure isn’t ever IT’s fault, often we have an important part to play in either the success or failure of a project. However, as the agent
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Unpicking spaghetti
Why is software governance complex? We’ve talked about the three gates of software development and why organisations make this more complex, but why is it more complex? Why can’t we fix it? Understand the complexity The first reason things become complex in organisations is “scale”. Simply put, while a startup might be able to concentrate all
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3 gates for Software Development
It doesn’t matter whether you use Waterfall or Scrum, or XP, or any other methodology; there are three and only three gates in the process of creating software. The first is the “Idea” gate. At this stage what we’re trying to do is to understand if we should actually build the thing that we’re talking…