Andrew Clark

Dorset

Analyst/Designer/Developer etc...

Another problem here is that corporate management appears to see IT as an adjunct to rather than integral part of their business.
By the same token, the analysts, designers and developers who produce business systems hardly ever have to use their own products.
Managers need to understand the implications of automating business processes just as IT project staff need to learn about the business.

Starting with relatively small-scale pilot projects to model business systems can substantially reduce the risk of failure.
After all, an application running on a workstation is the same whether it is used by two, or two thousand, users.

This approach can also get around the obsession that many IT project managers seem to have in getting the code cut.

If you are constructing a building, you have to decide its purpose, scale and location. Produce detailed plans. Clear the site. Lay the foundations and provide for all of the services. Only than can you start to see anything above ground.

The IT approach is often akin to setting bricklayers to work before any of the preparation is done and then wondering why the walls fall down!