Common Solutions

Focus on capacity

-Outsourcing – Offshore / nearshore delivery partners

-Flexible resource – contractors

-Recruitment – hire more permanent staff

Focus on processes

-Look to optimise process or organisational inefficiencies

Focus on delivery

-Do less

-More customer research to inform what to deliver

-‘Do More’ with the existing teams (the hard way to fail)

Focus on Finances

-Re-negotiate contracts

-Reduction of licence fees

-Cheaper provisioning of hardware

-Adoption of new / cheaper technology

Problem:

These all focus on immediately trying to fix individual parts of the problem.

We need to look at why we are doing things!