What Top Management Needs to Know About IT

What a CEO should know about IT, what questions to ask, or what a CTO needs to communicate to top management.

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1. What Top Management Needs to Know About IT Stephan Schmidt, Vice CTO, brands4friends
2. Me Stephan Schmidt Vice CTO brands4friends @codemonkeyism Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
3. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
4. What Top Management Needs to Know About IT Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
5. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT Top Management IT G AP Dragons Voodoo Black Magic ?
6. That’s wrong! Can’t manage Hidden risks Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
7. What should you ask? What should a CEO ask his CTO? (VP Engineering, Lead developer, …) Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
8. Stuff that risks your business or has huge revenue impact. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
9. Green Shifting. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
10. Questions to ask? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
11. What is our largest risk? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
12. How many SPOFs do you have? (People and technology) Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
13. When was your last Backup? Where is it? When has it been tested the last time? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
14. When will we hit the wall? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
15. KPI/ SLA •  Availability •  Bugs in Release •  Bugs found before •  Time to Market •  Do we hit (when?) the wall? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
16. War on Talent Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
17. Do not hire IT personal if you don’t know what you do. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
18. When your recruiting pipeline is empty 3 months recruiting + 3 months notice period + 1 current month = 7 months from need to filled Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
19. Very good developers are 20% more expensive, but 2000% more productive. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
20. 30-50% of programmers with programming experience can not program. Cargo Cultists. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
21. Do not let anyone here developers without a coding test. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
22. Development is a solved problem Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
23. Time Scope Resources ($$$) Kanban (Lean) Waterfall Agile (Scrum) Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
24. Time to market => more money Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
25. Time to Market Largest lever NOT in development. Largest lever in decision phase. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
26. Front-up Development Start Development Everyone focuses here Problems are here Idea
27. 1 women needs 9 months to deliver a baby. 9 women do deliver a baby in 1 month. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
28. Time Time 1. Feature 2. Feature 3. Feature 4. Feature 5. Feature 1. Feature 2. Feature 3. Feature 4. Feature 5. Feature Parallel Serial Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
29. Market Opportunity Feeling of urgency Time relative to competitor Reinertsen 1998 Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
30. Top Management possible impact Reinertsen 1998 Attention of top management for a project Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
31. Productivity Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
32. The most important factor in software work is the quality of the programmers. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
33. The best programmers are up to 28 times better than the worst programmers. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
34. Developers need 15 minutes to reach the ZONE. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
35. Site note: No telephones. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
36. Tools. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
37. No silver bullet. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
38. Performance Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
39. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT Time Scope
40. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT Time Scope
41. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT Time Scope ∞
42. Technical Debt Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
43. Time Technical Debt Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
44. Time Technical Debt WALL Rewrite Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
45. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT Work left to do Time Pressure Technical Debt
46. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT Time Lines of Code Ok BAD GOOD
47. How long does it take? Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
48. Software estimation is usually done by the wrong people. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
49. 4x 0,25x 1x Cone of Uncertainty Time Steve McConnell Software Complete Initial Idea Requirements Complete UI Complete Detailed Design Complete Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
50. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT 4x 0,25x 1x Bad Cone of Uncertainty Time Steve McConnell Initial Idea Requirements Complete
51. Estimation /Time Probability 10% 50% 90% 1. August 1. July 1. October Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
52. Time or Effort Probability of Completion 100% Point in Time X Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
53. Brooks Law: Adding people to a late project makes it later. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
54. DON’T FORGET! Maintenance typically consumes 40 to 80 percent of software costs. Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
55. Thanks! Questions? @codemonkeyism stephan.schmidt@brands4friends.de Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT
56. Sources Stephan Schmidt - What Top Management needs to know about IT “Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art”, Steve McConnell “Developing Products in Half the Time”, Donald G. Reinertsen “The Mythical Man-Month”, Frederick P. Brooks “Peopleware”, Tom DeMarco