The IT Governance Evangelist

FED CIOs Take on PPM

Steve Romero — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:55:00 GMT

I received a tweet from Charles Betz this morning that caused my jaw to drop: @CharlesTBetz US federal CIOs to become responsible for IT portfolio management. http://bit.ly/nm3amT (What were they doing before?) My jaw dropped because I completely concur with Charles' question: "What were they doing before?" If you are a regular reader of my post you know what I think about...

Agile and the PMO

Steve Romero — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:40:00 GMT

I just read Forrester's Margo Visitacion's latest paper: "The PMO in An Agile World: Can't We All Just Get Along?" http://bit.ly/rpw1R8 As usual, Margo is right on target with some great insights and recommendations. Margo does a great job of breaking down the long-standing problem of project manager being stuck between developers seeking to meet the needs of their...

Implementing a Process? Manage the ‘change'

Steve Romero — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:23:00 GMT

I am in Australia to participate and speak at the three CA World Expos here this week. Yesterday's event was in Sydney and I am headed to Melbourne later today for our expo there tomorrow. Then I am off to Canberra for our expo there on Friday. I was able to attend three Clarity customer presentations yesterday. Each one of the presenters described their "lessons learnt" (This is...

‘Us and Them' Elimination Experts

Steve Romero — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:37:00 GMT

Is your organization staffed with people who are experts at eliminating the ‘us and them' relationship between IT and the business? In the past four and half years I have visited well over 100 companies and spoken to thousands of people at well over 100 events. Time and time and time again I have witnessed a divisive and sometimes adversarial ‘us and them' relationship between IT...

My First Book - "Eliminating 'Us and Them' - Making IT and the Business One"

Steve Romero — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:26:00 GMT

This is a rather momentous blog post for me. Though all of my posts are from my heart, this one is about a labor of my love. Today, my company, CA Technologies, issued an official press release http://bit.ly/jDzpGY announcing the publication of my new book, "Eliminating ‘Us and Them' - Making IT and the Business One." Though the book took me a year to write, and another six...