I.T. Strategic Planning Failures
Sue Bushell asked on "LinkedIn": What are the most common failures in strategic IT planning and how are these best avoided? What best practices in strategic planning are most effective? My answer: 1. There are no I.T. projects - only Business Projects. Hence changing the premise of your question: What are the most common business process failures around I.T. solutions? [A: Make the business run the project and take the rap if it fails.] 2. I.T. is an Industry, not a Profession. Proof : Professions Learn: repeating Known and avoidable Errors/Mistakes isn't consequence free, as it is within I.T. 3. The complete lack of History in I.T. - both on macro and micro scales. Show me any large organisation that can even list all its current projects, which is a necessary starting point for: Formal "Lessons Learned" from projects and operations - known problems are avoided, known effective practices are used. Jerry Weinberg wrote definitive works on Software Quality Man...