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Chris Peters: Microsoft Office Architect, Synchronize and Stabilize!

There has long been in the field of software development methodologies for a lot of talk and discuss what the process more efficient or better suited
In ... ' field of web technologies (which are now the leading technologies for all software farm, or at least those on which there is greater expectation) now has in fact said the concept of perpetual beta (Perennial beta) ... software that is evolving so fast and so attached to business not adequate to reach a stable version of the product. The paradox is that the online version of the software web, although still in beta, has a level of inherent stability also given the ability and habit of mind of the developer that evolve and keep it in operation to update progressively and fixare bugs and new features continuously ... They synchronize and stabilize the software almost every day ...
In fact, and few point out, this method of practice now in web (see Google and its consolidated philosophy always in beta version) has a precursor in the workplace and in theory made by Microsoft since the first versions of Windows (years 80) by a process known as Synchronize-and-Stabilize .

Synchronize-and-Stabilize the software development process is a very effective and mainly directed towards the realization of the product ... as the Americans say so heavily focused solely to ship products.
Here are the words that describe effectively the philosophy development software, Chris Peters, l’Architetto Microsoft che guidò il team che integrò, in modalità Synchronize-and-Stabilize, le prime versioni di Microsoft Office :

“ Everybody in a business unit has exactly the same job description and that is to ship products. Your job is not to write code. Your job is not to test. Your job is not to write specs .

Your job is only to ship products ....

When you wake up in the morning and you come to work, you say what is the focus? Are we trying to ship? Are we trying to write code? The answer is we are trying to ship.... You're trying not to write code.

If We Could make all this money by not writing code, We'd do it. "

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Gartner costs cutting: 25 ways to cut IT costs

The IT Architect are intermediate figures that address the technical choices of the IT team and also particularly in light of their economic importance ... and therefore must take account of 'Economic meltdown in place and act accordingly.
And now they say the Anglo-Saxons as a joke ... these are times when the Chief Financial Officer CIO become true!

Gartner recently issued a sort of operating handbook (25 suggestions) on how to operate an effective cost control attraverso i quattro versanti trasversali dell’IT:

- IT management
- enterprise software
- enterprise infrastructure and operations (networks and telecom)
- enterprise infrastructure (hardware & IT operations)

Eccoli di seguito:

Cut costs through more effective IT management methods

-Focus initially on cutting "people costs": Freeze headcount, reduce/eliminate special bonuses, reduce regional support.
-Flatten organization structure: Move to collaborative, team-based models .
-Accelerate the progress of centralized and shared services: Leverage enterprise-wide competencies, reduce staff embedded in business units.
-Bring a qualified finance person into your IT leadership team, perhaps on loan or on temporary contract.
-Maintain or strengthen relationship management roles: Business analysts, business process and industry experts, account executives, relationship managers.
-Take control of "unmanaged" costs you can measure and cut easily, such as data center power consumption or printing.

Cut costs in enterprise software (Caution ahead!)

- Use invoice verification .
-Eliminate unused software/modules. Understand who's using what and why. Lots of closet cleaning here.
- Apply more sophisticated negotiations ."You can't put someone who bought pencils into a negotiation" with a big software vendor, Gartner's Bill Snyder said. "They'll get eaten alive."
-Use alternative products included in previous deals.
- Introduce competition for existing products . You must foster vendor competition if you hope to lower costs. If you decide to switch, make sure you calculate the cost of taking out the incumbent beforehand.
-Use "best-for-need" rather than "best-of-breed" products. You could be paying as much as a 50% premium for best of breed, Snyder said.

Cut costs in enterprise infrastructure and operations: Networks and telecom

-Use telecom expense management services (save 10% to 35%). Nobody can keep track of this stuff. Hire a professional to source, benchmark, negotiate the contracts, etc., and audit the bills.
-Move to corporate liability for wireless services (save 15% to 30%). Who's responsible for the bills of individuals, what devices they use? The enterprise should take control and set standards, Gartner analyst Phil Redman said.
-Reduce the reliability target for a location by "one 9" (save 30%).
-Collapse rich media conferencing into a premises-based multi-control point unit (save 60%). As hardware costs come down, building your own videoconferencing center can save big money over the long run, assuming you do a lot of it.
-Deploy IP telephony and Voice over Internet Protocol (save 50% to 80% of maintenance).
- Use the Internet as corporate transport (save 10% to 80%).

Cut costs in enterprise infrastructure, hardware and IT operations

-Defer 2008 Windows XP PC replacements to 2009. Three-year-old PCs and 2-year-old laptops might be able to go another year, but you should be mindful of the maintenance costs, Gartner analyst Michael Silver said.
-Exploit commoditization: the best-for-need instead of best-of-breed argument, redux.
-Make better use of existing tools by improving process and policy.
- Defer client architecture pilot/evaluation projects. -Implement
thin provisioning and data de-duplication for storage reduction.
- Consolidate and virtualize servers .

Emerging trends in IT cost pressure
Target Areas for two or three "zero-based budgeting in 2009.
Start the process soon Gartner said: "Current-year cost-saving opportunities will be Revealed."