You’re making excellent progress on the priorities you and your business stakeholder established a few months ago. You’re not done yet, but you feel confident you will complete the assignment on time. That is, until your business stakeholder arrives unexpectedly and shares a new set of assignments he wants you to handle personally. What do […]
Reorg isn’t fun. It involves moving people, it’s politically sensitive, and it’s a process filled with ups and downs. It’s such an intimidating undertaking that we often don’t know where to start, and instead choose to digest all the little things that happen throughout the year without making any major adjustments. In many ways this […]
Calm. Ordered. Process-driven. Three qualities that define an ideal IT environment. And yet, most IT environments are tense, chaotic, and operate within a swirl of ad-hoc solutions to the day’s burning problems. What creates this gap between the controlled IT environment we all want to operate within, and the unmanageable environment most IT departments actually work […]
Two weeks ago, we confronted an uncomfortable professional reality: as an IT leader, at least once in your career you will face lean times—stretches when IT’s resources are substantially reduced and everyone feels the pinch. During these lean times, three major problems crop up: A reactive desire to just accept the lean times and mechanically […]
Last week, we confronted an uncomfortable professional reality: As an IT leader, at least once in your career you will face lean times— stretches when IT’s resources are substantially reduced and everyone feels the pinch. During these times, three major problems crop up: A reactive desire to just accept the lean times and mechanically grind […]
