David Wright

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Cascade #7 – Knowing too much about your business people’s business…

  How much does IT  need to know about the specific way their employer conducts business when competing in their industry? Again from experience,...

Cascade #6 – Projects change the business, so know the overall business first.

  Projects change the business, so know the overall business first.   A never-ending discussion in IT circles is about how much IT staffers need to...

Cascade #5 – There is always more work to be done than people to do it.

  There is always more work to be done than people to do it. This principle summarizes the reality of virtually all organizations and activities,...

Cascade #4 – Principles for improving IT Projects

  Like you, I have read my fair share of IT books, and each author has to decide how to best present what they are...

Cascade #3 – What can you do about all your IT Projects?

  So, what  can you do? You have to deliver on all those change requests, and finish those current projects so you can start new ones...

Cascade #2 – "a project does not exist in a vacuum"

From previous post Projects are hard. Many years of doing projects, often unsuccessfully, has led the IT world to focus on how to do projects...

Cascade #1 – Introduction to the Real World of IT Projects

  INTRODUCTION I wrote this book for people who work at companies that have an IT department to support their business. I realize this describes just...

Serializing 2nd Edition of Cascade

I am revising/rewriting "Cascade" over the next few months, and I would like to use an old publishing technique in a new way: serialization. ...

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