Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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So what skills are necessary to optimize the business-technology relationship in the early 21st century?
How do you want to be remembered? Not that you're going anywhere soon, but if you were to define company roles going forward, what would they look like? The data we've been tracking for a while now suggests that big changes are in the works, that business technology is bifurcating into at least two broad categories: operational and strategic technology.
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Project Management, The Movie
Life in the Wild West was simple. Some people needed killing. And with so many trigger-happy people around, that's just what happened. Today's software industry can sometimes look a lot like the Wild West, complete with "cowboy coders," but there's one crucial difference: we hardly ever spot the projects that need killing; we hardly ever pull the trigger. What's wrong with us?
It may take only four steps to cancel a project, but that doesn't mean it is simple or easy. Not much has been written regarding how to go about cancelling a project. Even less has been written about how to survive if you are the person responsible for the cancellation. This article contains tips on both important topics.