For a couple of years now, I have been working on various digitization projects, both in the private sector and the public sector. A common characteristics has always been the pursuit of cost cutting, meaning that the basic premise for even starting the project was to lower cost associated with a given operation or process. Most of the times, a business case has been created in order to prove the actual benefit of said project. These projects have always been ran as IT development projects, and always with a pretty tight deadline. In my experience, the deadline itself will at...
I have been in my new job for over a month now, and I a better grasp of the development methodologies. Obviously, I keep comparing the methods to how we did at my old job, since the differences are quite explicit. Whereas before I was submerged in a SCRUM world, I am now working in a team that applies a waterfall model for development. In all honesty, the beginnings were a little difficult to getting used to. For many years I have been moving at break neck speed with a release every two to three weeks. On top of that...
Last week I went to a Tech Talk at Microsoft where we talked about Lean Product Development, a topic that is near and dear to my heart. One of the main points was that resource utilization of 100% is not necessarily a good thing. Those of you who have a project manager or two breathing down your neck every day, know that they are usually looking to reach 100% utilization, because in their world that is where we reach optimal productivity. Now, don’t take this as me bashing project managers. They also have people breathing down their necks, because they...
