The Devil's Guide to iT™ » benefit register http://devilsguidetoit.com making iT simpler Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:10:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 the Sponsor owns the project http://devilsguidetoit.com/index.php/the-sponsor-owns-the-project/ http://devilsguidetoit.com/index.php/the-sponsor-owns-the-project/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 15:52:36 +0000 oldnick http://devilsguidetoit.com/?p=5331 Reality: the Sponsorship attitude dilutes true accountability and ownership.

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]]> http://devilsguidetoit.com/index.php/the-sponsor-owns-the-project/feed/ 0 no substitute for ownership http://devilsguidetoit.com/index.php/no-substitute-for-ownership/ http://devilsguidetoit.com/index.php/no-substitute-for-ownership/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 13:51:23 +0000 oldnick http://devilsguidetoit.com/?p=5275 iT folk can be difficult to understand at the best of times, especially when describing our beloved technology. But it’s even more confusing for everyone when we deliberately avoid using plain language for non-technical aspects of management. For example we still persist with the inconvenient [...]]]> iT folk can be difficult to understand at the best of times, especially when describing our beloved technology. But it’s even more confusing for everyone when we deliberately avoid using plain language for non-technical aspects of management. For example we still persist with the inconvenient conspiracy that allows projects to have highly visible ‘Sponsors’ but invisible or absent Owners. The concept of ‘sponsorship’ is truly diabolical, because there is no field of human endeavour where the Sponsors are held accountable for performance. :twisted:

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