Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Editor’s Note: While Thoughtworks Studios is affiliated with the IT consultancy ThoughtWorks, it’s aim is the development and marketing of automation tools to enable more Agile delivery of DevOps. IT organizations are under ever increasing pressure to deliver software faster and more reliably. On the one hand, businesses are being squeezed by faster-moving competition. On…
Quite by coincidence as I’m writing this (I came up with the title last night), a remnant Tsunami that devastated Japan is just now hitting Hawaii — with apparently far less devastating effects. But, in fact, this column was inspired by something far more trivial (yet, somehow, related — at least that’s how it feels):…
All eyes have been on Egypt for weeks now yet few saw it as the beginning of the end of offshore outsourcing as we know it. “Had India unplugged the Internet, companies worldwide would be hard at work reconfiguring their offshoring strategy,” said Barry Carter, a CIO for 10 years at AirTran, Capital One, UnitedHealth…
When leaders measure the success of a project, or check-in on its status, they usually ask the project manager, “Is the project on schedule? Will it be completed by the due date?” This focus on meeting project deadlines and schedule ripples through the organization and influences how a project manager and a project team approach…