As Operational Line Manager and Resource Manager, your job is to ensure that the wheel is turning all the time. Business engages IT to deliver a solution/product in a cost-effective way. Business does not care whether the solution is developed and tested in-house or it is outsourced to an external vendor. All business cares about…
Category: Outsourcing
What does Digital Transformation from Legacy to Cloud mean?
Digital Transformation is a large topic. That is not the focus here. Rather the focus is transforming digital applications from legacy to cloud solution. Lets understand what each of the word means: AWS (cloud), legacy, transformation. AWS – Traditionally, organizations used to have on-premises servers and would host all applications internally. That means organization had…
Technical team engagement for reviewing vendor contract
More and more companies are slowly transitioning to a vendor based delivery model. Let it be engagement of a vendor to deliver a project or outsourcing application development to an external agency, this is now becoming quite common. Running IT as a business is the new approach for private and public organisations. Over the last…
Can a good PM deliver better software?
My answer is YES. It all comes down to planning and managing the project properly. Defects cost Money! This may sound cliché but it is the truth. As IT organisations are transitioning from traditional delivery model to outcome based vendor delivery model, the impact of defects are becoming more profound. Think of a scenario where…
Free Online courses?
We are slowly entering a technological era where companies have started to move away from traditional thinking and approaches. There have been a few articles in recent times where it was reported that some companies have started to move away from university degrees when recruiting. They have started to value experience over degree. I tend…