Comments on: What is Methodology Governance? http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/06/01/what-is-methodology-governance/ Delivered Intelligence Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:54:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tim Berry http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/06/01/what-is-methodology-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-9917 Tim Berry Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:08:29 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/06/01/what-is-methodology-governance/#comment-9917 I like the idealism of process improvement but the practicalities of commercial finance leaves us always doomed to repeat our mistakes. Hope you can find well financied long sighted clients as you will save them alot of money over a ten year period. Getting them to spend such huge amounts over a two year period for what is perceived to be the same result is the difficult bit. As you have said once through a controlled cycle once companies usually outsource and compound the mistakes. Can you break the cycle, I hope so, good luck. I like the idealism of process improvement but the practicalities of commercial finance leaves us always doomed to repeat our mistakes.
Hope you can find well financied long sighted clients as you will save them alot of money over a ten year period. Getting them to spend such huge amounts over a two year period for what is perceived to be the same result is the difficult bit.
As you have said once through a controlled cycle once companies usually outsource and compound the mistakes.
Can you break the cycle, I hope so, good luck.

]]> By: Jeff Moss http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/06/01/what-is-methodology-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-9910 Jeff Moss Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:36:16 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/2009/06/01/what-is-methodology-governance/#comment-9910 I like what you say Jennifer - you talk a lot of sense to me. I think I'd add that, in my experience, it's particularly savvy, hybrid skilled individuals, who make the difference between project success or failure - people who understand many phases of the methodology, rather than just their phase of the process - people who can see the bigger picture. The complexity of the operational systems is also a significant factor in how likely you are to succeed on a project - every bit as much as the quality of the data itself, in my view. Profiling can help with working out how bad your data is on one level, but not necessarily how it fits together, process wise,e.g. if the operational systems have a form of workflow at their core. Cheers Jeff I like what you say Jennifer – you talk a lot of sense to me.

I think I’d add that, in my experience, it’s particularly savvy, hybrid skilled individuals, who make the difference between project success or failure – people who understand many phases of the methodology, rather than just their phase of the process – people who can see the bigger picture.

The complexity of the operational systems is also a significant factor in how likely you are to succeed on a project – every bit as much as the quality of the data itself, in my view. Profiling can help with working out how bad your data is on one level, but not necessarily how it fits together, process wise,e.g. if the operational systems have a form of workflow at their core.

Cheers
Jeff

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