Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield

Preface

Within every business, there is a desire for rapid change to meet customer demands. Such changes usually involve changing supporting IT systems. When large business changes are required, the accompanying IT changes tend to be significant, too. However, all too often, these big projects hit problems, run over budget, are delayed, or simply get cancelled. Even in 2006, 65% of IT projects failed on one of these counts.^[1] Large projects have an even poorer success rate. Such odds are very worrying when the stakes are very high. This book identifies the fundamental issues at the heart of the IT industry’s current approaches and provides a new way forward. All people involved in large-scale business and IT change should read this book.

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