It’s a tautology. If you’re doing a ‘digital transformation’ project in 2022 then you have had poor governance for over a decade. Maybe at least 20 years. IT governance isn’t going to magically improve on decades of mismanagement. Especially as incompetent individuals tend to hire even more incompetent individuals.
If you think it’s bad in industry….Worked for 18 months with a large government institution that is regularly in the news. When I joined I was assigned to a project that was already failing due to it being allocated one general civil servant who had been on a few week-long programming courses as its development staff. Spent the 18 months trying to get use cases, to get proper planning done, to get testing done, and to do actual development. Watched as the org added 4 expensive contract workers late on to try and save the project, none of whom were vetted, most of whom were useless. Walked away with it still incomplete, poor quality, and probably uncompleteable, as it was damaging my health.
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It’s a tautology. If you’re doing a ‘digital transformation’ project in 2022 then you have had poor governance for over a decade. Maybe at least 20 years. IT governance isn’t going to magically improve on decades of mismanagement. Especially as incompetent individuals tend to hire even more incompetent individuals.
If you think it’s bad in industry….Worked for 18 months with a large government institution that is regularly in the news. When I joined I was assigned to a project that was already failing due to it being allocated one general civil servant who had been on a few week-long programming courses as its development staff. Spent the 18 months trying to get use cases, to get proper planning done, to get testing done, and to do actual development. Watched as the org added 4 expensive contract workers late on to try and save the project, none of whom were vetted, most of whom were useless. Walked away with it still incomplete, poor quality, and probably uncompleteable, as it was damaging my health.