To execute a successful technology project, you need to
have a plan and execute it. You have to do three things:
1. Build the right tech team for implementation
2. Establish your organizational plan for the tools and
the development process you are going to use
3. Identify your operational and maintenance plan
Build the Right Tech Team for Your
Implementation
Application delivery teams should focus more on the prod-
uct than the project. At project kickoff, rather than assem-
bling delivery teams from various parts of the enterprise,
the organization should assign project teams as subsets of
their original product delivery teams. This ensures team
cohesion and a unified overall project vision for a product,
since the delivery team is already familiar with the product’s
nuances.
The business level also needs to define a series of stake-
holders, including the following:
• Product managers who are part of business leader-
ship. They set the project vision, sell that vision to
C-suite, make the business case and cross collaborate
with sales. Each product manager works with prod-
uct owners across delivery teams to ensure that
requirements and user stories are developed. The
manager also prioritizes when business feature sets
will be delivered, and keeps a finger on the pulse of
parallel developments and releases.
• Enterprise architects who ensure organizational
design standards are implemented and acted on
during delivery.
• Product owners who write and prioritize user stories
for the development teams, based on business unit
requirements.
In addition to customer satisfaction, the end to
strive for should be a product that is easily main-
tained in an operational environment.
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