2009/5/24 Rob Eamon <[email protected]>: > > Benefits/goals can be defined above or within projects, IMO. It depends on > the overall strategy--enterprise in scope or local in scope. > +1. Or both. I think in most cases, there is an enterprise strategy but also a local strategy.
> I think the findings in the study indicate that some don't define what > benefits/goals they want achieve. Simply using particular technologies and > hoping for the best is inadvisable. Assuming that some "universal benefits" > of a particular approach will be achieved is also risky because particular > approaches never guarantee particular results. E.g. "We'll get agility if we > follow SO principles." Perhaps, but not if you get the service definitions > wrong for the business at hand. To *know* that you're more agile, one needs > to set goals for that and measure. > +1 I was wondering who David Linthicum's interviewed to get the results? :-)
