September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
3h 31m
English

At a recent tradeshow, the CIO of a leading investment bank came up to me after a presentation, talking about the woes of meeting his company’s business objectives for new functionality.
He explained to me that every year, before he submits his strategic development plan to the executive management team for review, he would go through and reduce the number of projects delivered by 50 percent. And then, going into the last quarter of the year, he would reduce the expected success rate on those projects by another 50 percent. There was just no way for him to predict when projects would get done, and how ...