The 4 Reasons Companies’ Projects Fail and How Executagility® solves those pain points
📰 The The Wall Street Journal published an article on Sept 7 called "Why Do Companies' IT projects fail so often?
Super compelling because this is a KNOWN pain point for any company that maintains any level of IT in-house.
Interestingly, the antidote the article offered was to distribute IT people throughout departments - effectively de-centralizing IT - so they would better understand what the internal customer really needed and keep the budget in that department's P&L, thereby aligning to the most important needs of that department.
I submit that in most non-enterprise level organizations, and even in enterprise to a degree; it is not cost effective to do so.
All of a sudden the workload to keep 2-4 FTEs busy in a centralized IT department has expanded to 5-8 FTEs that don't have enough to keep them fully occupied, depending on how many departments the org has and truly ROI-driving projects each one needs: Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Operations/Manufacturing, Procurement, Warehouse/Shipping, Accounting, HR, and maybe Executive).
How are mid-market companies going to afford not only 2-4 skilled IT employees, but now even more than that?
And what about when departments start sub-optimizing new IT projects because they need to keep their skilled employees busy?
How many of those new things will drive value, and how does the department keep up with that pace of change?
🙋♀️ Plus what about cross-functional priorities such as integrating the CRM to the ERP to minimize redundant manual entry when customers move through the lead-to-land process? Which department would "own" that project - there are multiple departments who will benefit.
⁉Interestingly, there was *no* mention of Agile or Scrum in the article at ALL, even though using an Agile approach does solve many of the problems raised in the article.
😒 However, Agile Scrum on its own does NOT solve all of the problems raised, and Agile Scrum itself is perceived of as being overburdening - too many rules, too many specialized roles for which external certifications seem to be required.
💡 AJC has a solution that meets the needs of REAL organizations with respect to using the most valuable and practical aspects of Agile Scrum, combined with:a basic economic-decision making prioritization aspect that includes all departments,
and built-in organizational Change Management to
avoid the "flavor of the month" eye roll when new frameworks are touted by Leadership as a panacea to solve all ills.
🔦It's called Excutagility® and it actually works.
See below for the four main pain points from the WSJ article and how Executagility compares to Agile Scrum in how it addresses each point.
How Agile Scrum and Executagility(tm) solve issues from the WSJ ‘s article called Why Do Companies’ IT Projects Fail So Often? - link to the article by clicking the image.
