Comments on: IT Planning is Broken http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken Just another WordPress site Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Kris Kelso http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-512 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:37:42 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-512 Lately I have wondered if part of the problem is the 12-month planning / budgeting cycle. Given the changes that Agile has made to how development work is approached, do we need to be looking at budgeting in a similar fashion? Are there any companies that have done away with the traditional “year” in terms of budgeting and planning? Is there any reason at all that a budget cycle has to be tied to the length of time it takes the earth to make a trip around the sun?

It would have to be embraced by more than just IT, since IT budgets roll up to the overall budget for the company, but I would love to see an organization try something other than the traditional 12-month cycle.

]]> By: Kris Kelso http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-517 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:37:00 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-517 Lately I have wondered if part of the problem is the 12-month planning / budgeting cycle. Given the changes that Agile has made to how development work is approached, do we need to be looking at budgeting in a similar fashion? Are there any companies that have done away with the traditional “year” in terms of budgeting and planning? Is there any reason at all that a budget cycle has to be tied to the length of time it takes the earth to make a trip around the sun?

It would have to be embraced by more than just IT, since IT budgets roll up to the overall budget for the company, but I would love to see an organization try something other than the traditional 12-month cycle.

]]> By: jfbauer http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-511 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:10:55 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-511 @dwwright99 I think I see your perspective on the planning outlined in this post as being flawed … I am struggling to overlay this on past organizations were I’ve worked where indeed the business was isolated in silos yet they clearly had a need to leverage enterprise solutions. But looking back, the plans that were so heavily invested in producing, 12 months later, rarely reflected what IT investments were actually made when it came to organization-wide efforts that actually turned out value.

Looking forward to more posts on this subject.

My blog: http://bit.ly/Ya8TQ

]]> By: jfbauer http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-516 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:10:00 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-516 @dwwright99 I think I see your perspective on the planning outlined in this post as being flawed … I am struggling to overlay this on past organizations were I’ve worked where indeed the business was isolated in silos yet they clearly had a need to leverage enterprise solutions. But looking back, the plans that were so heavily invested in producing, 12 months later, rarely reflected what IT investments were actually made when it came to organization-wide efforts that actually turned out value.

Looking forward to more posts on this subject.

My blog: http://bit.ly/Ya8TQ

]]> By: Links for December 13 2009 | Eric D. Brown http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-510 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:53:08 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-510 […] IT Planning is Broken by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard […]

]]> By: Twitted by webtechman http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-509 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:43:02 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-509 […] This post was Twitted by webtechman […]

]]> By: Arun Manansingh http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-508 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:13:18 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-508 Chris,
You took me back in time to my budget planning cycles. ;) Regarding the draft. Later on as my company grew I had to develop what we called a “zero draft” plan just to keep organized. It worked well because as we got input from the CFO/CEO we began to shape things accordingly. It also allowed us to talk intelligently to business and management. We eliminated a lot of waste and time.

]]> By: Arun Manansingh http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-515 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:13:00 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-515 Chris,
You took me back in time to my budget planning cycles. ;) Regarding the draft. Later on as my company grew I had to develop what we called a “zero draft” plan just to keep organized. It worked well because as we got input from the CFO/CEO we began to shape things accordingly. It also allowed us to talk intelligently to business and management. We eliminated a lot of waste and time.

]]> By: David W Wright http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-507 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:50:22 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-507 This planning is deeply flawed, even if you “fix” it as described. An effective organization is not a collection of competing interests, and IT is not a resource to be divvied up. Where is the organization’s overall strategy and goals in this scenario? How will organization-wide improvement occur when projects are isolated into departmental silos?

]]> By: David W Wright http://rocketpanther.com/ciostage/it-strategy/it-planning-is-broken#comment-514 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:50:00 +0000 http://www.ciodashboard.com/?p=1599#comment-514 This planning is deeply flawed, even if you “fix” it as described. An effective organization is not a collection of competing interests, and IT is not a resource to be divvied up. Where is the organization’s overall strategy and goals in this scenario? How will organization-wide improvement occur when projects are isolated into departmental silos?

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