Bridging Business & IT

S1 E5: Five Things to Share With the Business Before the Project Starts

October 01, 2021 Dave Burrill and Dan Burrill Season 1 Episode 5
Bridging Business & IT
S1 E5: Five Things to Share With the Business Before the Project Starts
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This episode shares five things that the tech team needs to share with business executives, project sponsor(s), process owners and subject matter experts to set their expectations and explain their obligations before a project kicks off. We’re joined on this episode by an old friend and colleague, John Fisher, who has held multiple CIO positions over his 35+ year career and currently teaches at DePaul University.

Guest LinkedIn Profile: John Fisher

These podcasts are dedicated to bridging the gap between business & IT. Each episode looks at different aspects of this relationship as we explore ways to help the two groups better communicate. We're passionate about this topic because it's a failure to communicate that causes 75% of all IT project failures and costs the US $1.8 Trillion every year—8% of US GDP!

If you don't want to become one of these statistics and want to learn about an easy way to avoid it, please visit our website and schedule a free consultation.

Alternatively, if there's some topic you'd like to hear more about, or you have an idea about how we might better serve our listeners, please shoot us an email at dave@bridgingbusinessit.com. We'd love to hear from you.

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Introductions
#1: We're not running an IT project. We're running a business project that just happens to be enabled by technology.
#2: There's only two types of software.
#3: Software is a surrogate for a human.
#4: 3 out of 4 IT projects failures are caused by what people don't say.
#5: The greater your expertise, the harder it is for you to communicate all you know.