Today’s Successful IT Delivery Leaders

By:  Cole Francis, Solution Architect at The PSC Group, LLC, Schaumburg, IL.

Today’s successful IT Delivery Leaders focus predominantly on the delivery of a “product” and focus less on the term “project”.  They despise heavy planning phases that require intense requirements gathering sessions, they avoid meetings that they know will produce unactionable results, they redirect unnecessary project drama and chaos, they address unmanageable timelines, and they shy away from creating redundant product artifacts that tell a story that’s already been told.

Today’s successful IT Delivery Leaders are all about orchestrating results in rapid successions to demonstrate quick and frequent progress to the Stakeholders, they manage realistic expectations across the entire Delivery Team, they allow a product and its accompanying artifacts to define themselves over a series of iterative sprints, and they work directly with the Stakeholders to help shape the final product.  That’s efficiency!  Hi, I’m Cole Francis, a Solution Architect at The PSC Group in Schaumburg, IL, and I’ve been successfully delivering custom software solutions for an impressive and growing list of well-branded clients for over twenty years.