Experts from retirement talk of a senior IT manager
Hi..Today evening,,got an opportunity to hear some tips from a senior IT manager who had worked for 29 years in IT projects..He shared few things he says often he shares with his son who is also now in IT to bear in mind: Accept the facts that requirements in an IT projects will definitely change..so fundamental acceptance of this fact by you/your team will help one to deal things better.He suggested to take effort and have customer accept the fact.He broadly advocated the agile delivery paradigm..and encouraged to actively get the buy-in to deliver in iteration-1 current understanding of requirements and then in subsequent iterations..the next set of requirements..i.e have the mechanism in place like agile delivery advocates and work in sprints..so that if a new set of requirements are available..the next sprint can handle it.Always keep Customer as your first responsibility. Have the humility to accept mistakes..as the option of hiding it is just temporary and has greater adverse...