The Challenge The Director of a Fortune 500 retailer wanted to increase the productivity of his development staff. He believed that the 25 employees in the Development Department were spending too much time on maintenance tasks versus enhancing existing systems and developing new systems. Mistakes were being made. Tasks often had to be redone. The…
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Change Management
New Product Lifecycle Framework Breathes New Life Into Core Offering For Growing Technology
Challenge: The Strain of New Product Development An established software provider was in the midst of constructing a beta version of a new core product offering. The software development effort was straining limited resources from all departments across the organization. Informal communication among project participants and the lack of a clearly articulated process flow were…
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Project Lifecycle Renengineering Optimizs Enterprise Retailer For Future In-Store Projects
The Challenge The CIO of a Fortune 500 wholesale club chain was concerned that a plan to evolve the IS organization into a more customer-focused entity was having an unintended, negative effect on project and change execution. He observed vast inconsistencies in the way different team members planned and carried out projects and system changes….
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