Operational Art

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“Operational art translates the joint force commander’s strategy into operational design and, ultimately, tactical action, by integrating the key activities at all levels of war”
In IT parlance, this means translating the business strategies into IT organizational design and tactical project selection to maximise the organizational value. It is about IT leaders being perceptive of [...]

Insourcing for IT organizations

Most IT organizations are structured to becomes a monopoly within the firm and like monopolies are wont to do, they start taking their position for granted. They become large, expensive and slow in response to their customers i.e. the business. Arguably, this hurts the firm’s competitiveness in a big way.
David Rasmussen in Cutter [...]

Will the real customer please stand up?

One of the prime requirements for the success of Agile Projects is to have an “onsite customer“. In reality the real customers rarely have either the time and often, the inclination to be involved with the development team on a full time basis. After all, there is a business that needs to be attended - [...]