Shortsighted solutions to recurring problems—antipatterns—often sabotage a company’s transformation.
Technology choices
1. Force-fitting technology solutions: Are you choosing technology out of context?
2. Adopting cutting-edge tech that’s not fully mature: Are you adopting new technology that seems promising but doesn’t have a proven track record?
3. Building out your own cloud infrastructure without sufficient capabilities: Have you let security and regulation block your adoption of public cloud?
Technology road map
4. Initiating big-system-replacement programs: Are you focusing on system replacement rather than improving existing systems in a way that is faster and more cost-effective?
5. Focusing on architecture and tooling improvements without enhancing process and delivery discipline: Did you re-architect and implement new tooling but forget to adapt the delivery processes?
Technology management
6. Focusing on outputs rather than business outcomes: Are your technologists focused on output instead of business/technology outcome?
7. Managing IT purely for cost: Are you sacrificing significant value by overindexing on price and cost?
8. Investing in developing new platforms without involving the business: Is your primary focus platform development instead of platform adoption by the business?
Managing technologists
9. Outsourcing your core value streams: Are vendors doing the work that creates the most value for your business?
10. Building up an army of managers rather than developing an engineering culture: Do you value your managers more than your engineers?
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