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Business and IT, Everything is Entangled

July 22, 2010

Opening up all cliches on Business and IT alignment. Yesterday, I had a discussion on how IT really could solve business problems. One of the statements that came by was that we simply needed to listen to the business in order to understand what IT has to do. This is, in my opinion, a bit [...]

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All IT projects need Vision: Why and How

May 25, 2010

Software Projects don’t have a great success factor. According to some, this is because projects are too big, not measured right or simply didn’t have the right steer on it. These factors can all be true. But there’s more to it. Maybe even simpler. Most successful projects have been seen like a success from the [...]

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Where’s the Money at?

May 14, 2010

IT solutions can’t be measured, or at least, it’s hard. Not my statement, but something I hear very frequently. This is, by default, not the problem we’re facing here. It’s the logical outcome of looking at the different things. We should not be focusing on measuring the outcome of the IT project, the thing we [...]

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Why IT and Business should work together

March 12, 2010

IT and Business have, in the practise, different objectives, which is strange: Business and IT both are there to make an organization work as one whole, one objective and one mindset should be the main criteria. In the real-world a lot of organizations don’t have this luxury, they work separately, and therefore they work as [...]

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Why it is a sad thing when projects are in the IT domain

March 9, 2010

IT projects are in the IT domain, just like Marketing projects are in the Marketing domain. Makes sense right? No, it doesn’t. When we take a look at IT projects, we need to understand the fact that the only right of existence is the fact that we support business processes. This means that we need [...]

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Thoughts on Sustainable Software Development

February 5, 2010

Sustainability is hip. When we look at the footprint of our actions in the world, IT (or ICT) is responsible for some of the carbon-dioxide emissions (don’t ask me how much, but I can imagine there’s a lot to win). It must be possible to reduce this by working more efficient and by creating more [...]

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