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- Communication in Project Management
- IT Requirements
- ITSM Maturity
- Lean and Agile Operations
- Practicality of Corporate Architectures
Agile business process transformation risks and challenges
In this blog, we identify some key challenges of business process transformation towards an agile and lean techniques. We only focus on some key factors as we find them most abundant in IT Organizations we encounter. There are several risk factors that are specific to...
Enterprise Architecture/Service Oriented Architecture – How To Mitigate Risk
1. Overview Implementing Enterprise Architecture (EA) together with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) can be very beneficial for an organization. Aligning the business and IT may reduce costs, lower risks, and help an organization become more agile. At the same time, wrongly implemented EA and SOA may...
Enterprise Architecture Supports Operational Consistency and Stability
Enterprise Architecture (EA) delivers models and processes that ensure consistency and stability of service operations. Gartner suggests, it often takes 18 months to two years to get the EA practice up and running, and another one to two years after that to develop and refine...
Proactive operations – how to shift from reactive to proactive operations
Introduction One of the biggest challenges at most IT organizations is to transform itself from reactive to proactive operations model. ITIL framework provides the maturity levels for all processes or functions which in large part help to decipher whether you run the reactive or proactive IT...
Communication in the organization affects the success of project
Each organisation has its own unique communication system. With the development of modern technology, communication is changing. The process of globalization and universal access to the Internet is not without significance - once the whole company was in the conference room and the CEO could...
Why Vendors Should Not Drive the Architecture
Introduction Many organizations trying to reorganize their architecture rely strongly on IT departments and supporting architecture teams for driving and managing the architecture initiatives. For instance, in the world of SOA, very often the talk of the architecture leads to discussions on technical and organizational...
Enterprise Architecture -SOA benefits and risks
Overview The most fundamental challenge for most of organizations today has been an alignment between business and IT within an organization. The organizations struggle with the question of how to justify the IT budget, especially when there seems to be very little evidence stating that...
Trust in project management
Stephen M.R. Covey in his book “Speed of Trust” mentions the lowest societal trust in different countries: ” …only 34% of Americans believe that other people can be trusted. In Latin America, the number is only 23%, and in Africa, the figure is 18%. In...
Service Level Management
Introduction Service Level Management is one of Service Design processes. The fact should be enough to say that it’s one of most important processes, and indeed it’s. According to us it’s of crucial importance for two business aspects namely customer satisfaction and financial effectiveness of the...
Well defined requirements and how to find them – Part 2
Part II - Stakeholders and supporting processes for gathering proper requirements Stakeholders and theirs Roles in the process of creating requirements Engaging proper persons in the project or process is a clue and guarantee of the quality of outcomes. The requirements gathering project should also begin with...