Measuring Value of IT LO15862

Beedle, Mike (MikeBeedle@NikeSec.com)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 15:01:23 -0600

Replying to LO15797 --

>I heard that the new CIO of a large multinational set a new standard for
>his Group - no project was to be planned to last more than 12 months and
>no project was to involve a team greater than 50 people.

Actually, Jim Coplien has been mining the patterns of successful software
development organizations for the last ~7 years or so and one of the
patterns he found was SizeTheOrganization.

More info at:

http://www.bell-labs.com/cgi-user/OrgPatterns/OrgPatterns?SizeTheOrganiz
ation

Regards,

- Mike Beedle
http://www.fti-consulting.com/users/beedlem/

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"Beedle, Mike" <MikeBeedle@NikeSec.com>

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