“Easily. It’s pretty common in this kind of job to see significant disparities in ability. It’s not like other kinds of work, where the guy who does it best might be one and a half times faster or better than… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share Image
“IT—especially with its role so greatly enlarged by the arrival of the Internet—has changed not only how we work and conduct business, but also… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“Easily. It’s pretty common in this kind of job to see significant disparities in ability. It’s not like other kinds of work, where the… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great detail, to… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“Oh, I see. I think. I don’t have to actually know things I don’t know, I just have to know what they are and… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“He knew that some believed that standardization would impede innovation; that was one of the arguments people who resisted standardization were most inclined to… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“Oh, I see. I think. I don’t have to actually know things I don’t know, I just have to know what they are and… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“Good CIOs are hard to find. Even if you can find one, it may take as much as a year for a CIO new… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“Assigning best people to the project (“If they’re easy to give up, they’re the wrong people.”)” — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“Type 1 leadership was about functional requirements and individual systems; the focus was operational. Type 2 was less about managing individual projects and systems,… — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
“So the best project management policies are those that promote open flow of information up and down the project hierarchy.” — Robert D. Austin Copy Share
