Governance comes of age
CIO magazine had a great article on governance and the impact it can have on an organizations productivity. “we have ‘business projects’ in which IT is a major and often critical component.” is a great quote from the article. The point is that staying close to user and business needs is critical. We have learned this over the last 5 years and need to remember it moving forward. All too often it was easy to get caught up in massive implementations in which the project was an IT project and not a business project. In this new world of agile like approaches and smaller release iterations it should help us stay on track, ensuring that we are always delivering business value. Agile, refactoring and other techniques have helped teach IT and Business organizations stay more nimble and focused on the business. Growing lightweight manageable governance policies can help deliver more of the same.
