What Top Management Needs to Know About IT
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What a CEO should know about IT, what questions to ask, or what a CTO needs to communicate to top management.
What Top Management Needs to Know About IT
- 1. What Top Management Needs to Know About IT Stephan Schmidt, Vice CTO, brands4friends
- 2. Me Stephan Schmidt Vice CTO brands4friends @codemonkeyism Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 3. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 4. What Top Management Needs to Know About IT Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 5. Dragons Management Black Magic Top IT AP G Voodoo ? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 6. Thats wrong! Cant manage Hidden risks Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 7. What should you ask? What should a CEO ask his CTO? (VP Engineering, Lead developer, ) Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 8. Stuff that risks your business or has huge revenue impact. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 9. Green Shifting. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 10. Questions to ask? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 11. What is our largest risk? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 12. How many SPOFs do you have? (People and technology) Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 13. When was your last Backup? Where is it? When has it been tested the last time? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 14. When will we hit the wall? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 15. KPI/ SLA ≒ Availability ≒ Bugs in Release ≒ Bugs found before ≒ Time to Market ≒ Do we hit (when?) the wall? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 16. War on Talent Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 17. Do not hire IT personal if you dont know what you do. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 18. When your recruiting pipeline is empty 3 months recruiting + 3 months notice period + 1 current month = 7 months from need to filled Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 19. Very good developers are 20% more expensive, but 2000% more productive. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 20. 30-50% of programmers with programming experience can not program. Cargo Cultists. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 21. Do not let anyone here developers without a coding test. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 22. Development is a solved problem Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 23. Waterfall Resources ($$$) Time Scope Kanban (Lean) Agile (Scrum) Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 24. Time to market => more money Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 25. Time to Market Largest lever NOT in development. Largest lever in decision phase. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 26. Development Start Idea Front-up Development Problems are here Everyone focuses here
- 27. 1 women needs 9 months to deliver a baby. 9 women do deliver a baby in 1 month. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 28. 1. Feature 2. Feature 1. Feature 2. Feature 3. Feature 4. Feature 5. Feature 3. Feature 4. Feature 5. Feature Time Time Parallel Serial Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 29. Market Opportunity Feeling of urgency Time relative to competitor Reinertsen 1998 Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 30. Top Management Attention of top possible impact management for a project Reinertsen 1998 Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 31. Productivity Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 32. The most important factor in software work is the quality of the programmers. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 33. The best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 34. Developers need 15 minutes to reach the ZONE. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 35. Site note: No telephones. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 36. Tools. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 37. No silver bullet. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 38. Performance Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 39. Scope Time Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 40. Scope Time Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 41. Scope Time Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 42. Technical Debt Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 43. Technical Debt Time Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 44. Technical Debt WALL Rewrite Time Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 45. Work left Technical to do Debt Pressure Time Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 46. Lines of Code BAD Ok GOOD Time Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 47. How long does it take? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 48. Software estimation is usually done by the wrong people. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 49. Cone of Uncertainty 4x 1x Time Software Complete Detailed Design Complete UI Complete Requirements Complete 0,25x Initial Idea Steve McConnell Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 50. Bad Cone of Uncertainty 4x 1x Time Requirements Complete 0,25x Initial Idea Steve McConnell Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 51. 10% 50% 90% Probability Estimation /Time 1. July 1. August 1. October Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 52. Probability of Completion 100% Time or Effort Point in Time X Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 53. Brooks Law: Adding people to a late project makes it later. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 54. DONT FORGET! Maintenance typically consumes 40 to 80 percent of software costs. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 55. Thanks! Questions? @codemonkeyism stephan.schmidt@brands4friends.de Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
- 56. Sources Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art, Steve McConnell Developing Products in Half the Time, Donald G. Reinertsen The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks Peopleware, Tom DeMarco Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT