Clarke Ching
ASIN: B00PJ8HBW8
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 321
The company’s #1 IT project is already running late. Very late.And then the CEO slashes the date, then gives Steve, the CIO, a choice: Commit to the new, earlier date, or find a new job.Steve’s not stupid, so he commits, but then he makes the most courageous decision of his professional life.He decides to figure out how to deliver on time, the hard way, without cutting corners.He and his team reframe the challenge as a puzzle. They treat it like a game where the mission is to take his death-march IT project, with its arbitrary and impossible deadline, then deliver on time, without sacrificing quality, without slashing scope, and without complaining.Unlike most games, they only gets one life. Fail and the company gets sold and Steve loses his job.His team will have to work together. They’ll have to innovate. They will have to think.-- When your next IT project must deliver on time, or ...