In a recent article, Tomasz Tunguz explained why individuals naturally overestimate their contribution to a team project. He explained that we all have a natural bias because we can see all the hard work that we are contributing to a team effort, and fail to fully comprehend the work that others are also putting in.…
Name: Kieran Gutteridge Role: CTO Previous jobs/roles: Before Cutover I was involved in early-stage companies and their transition to mobile and cloud computing through an agency I helped set up over ten years ago. I was fortunate to work with and be exposed to a wide variety of businesses from startups such as Bardowl, Lovestruck…
Name: Emma Pritchard Role: Business Manager Can you give some background on your previous roles? I spent nine years working for a management consultancy. Most recently, as Corporate Development Manager, I looked after European company acquisitions from start to finish including negotiations with targets and due diligence. I also applied my background in Occupational Psychology…
It is often said that ‘change is the only constant,’ but for large organisations, change can be painful. This is especially true when it comes to enterprise-wide change programmes. According to Harvard Business Review, two-thirds of all large-scale transformation efforts fail to some degree. With big change programmes, good change leadership is vital to success.…
Executing critical enterprise events can be incredibly stressful and, for those involved, place a lot of pressure on both their professional and personal lives. For managers, there is also a high level of personal and professional risk in accepting accountability for the success or failure of the event. Critical events include IT Release Management, Crisis…
When managing a critical IT event, the organisation and coordination of various teams can be complicated and time-consuming, leaving room for human error and taking up valuable hours. Historically, manual methods have been used that are now vastly outdated and which don’t give managers, teams or stakeholders a clear visualisation of the event in terms…
End-to-end projects and programmes have been supported by life-cycle methodologies (processes) and Enterprise Management platforms (tools) such as MS project for many years. This article looks at best priactices for release management in banking. Projects and programmes are an investment risk, viewed through a quality and performance lens, right up to the point of release. At…