I read an interesting article about how the pendulum is swinging back to centralization of IT resources. Two of the most important results are an increased effectiveness in decision rights – the way technology investment decisions are made – and in information flows from IT to the rest of the business. This is related to, but not identical to some of the observations I’ve been making in this blog. With centralized data, everyone can see the same information as it
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Volunteering is a great way to give back to the community, meet new and interesting people, and keep me from playing Civilization until the wee hours of the morning. OK, sometimes not so wee. I know it’s seriously time for bed when I hear traffic on the road – that means people are heading in to work and perhaps I should think about it too. Fortunately I don’t do that too often. Anyway, one of the things I have volunteered Toyota can’t say for sure whether the recent rounds of recalls will definitively resolve the safety issues. What a mess they are in! But we shouldn’t be surprised – automotive systems are so complicated that it is frankly surprising we haven’t had more Merging branches is something that goes on in the real (non-computer) world all the time, but you probably never think of it. Don’t think so? I can prove it. There is a reason why I chose to focus on control mechanisms in my two previous posts . Control information is one of the main types of artifact that a project creates and uses during the process of product or service … One such method is authorization, in which permission is granted to the domain specialist to do the work that is required. Authorization doesn’t seem very natural, of course. Isn’t it more natural to simply assign work to an analyst and the analyst goes off and does it? Yes, you can do … Now “control” seems like such an awfully oppressive term, and late-night comedians never seem to use the word “process” in their stand-up routines, but you can actually have an enjoyable experience working on a project with a reasonable amount of control and |
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