Dear CIO or Digi-Chief, is Your ICT-project or digitalization programme short of a Solution Architect, Technical Project Manager, or Project Management Officer?
As an experienced solution architect, in between the business stakeholders and technical point experts, I help formulate and map the business needs into an ICT solution blueprint and a delivery plan. The delivery plan often projects implementation options, factoring requirements, schedule, budget, skills required, and risks.
From the role of digital solution architect, with my extensive background as a systems integrator and programmer, it is efficient to move to the role of technical project manager and lead the solution delivery. There will be less misunderstandings.
Everybody can run the development of a single application. My specialty is based on exposure to big development programs or integration projects usually run in multi-vendor setups, leading to the “team-of-teams” approach.
A practical example of creating a business-driven backlog in a large project of multiple business teams and utilizing artificial intelligence to get the backlog online. Planning phase: I coached the leaders of the four business teams of the big ERP project to refine a backlog of 2000+ stories (i.e. individual ERP functions) into about 200 epics (i.e. independent business functionalities, or partial biz processes). They used Excel for refinement. The Excel is still the most familiar and also the most effective tool for most business experts. Before the "semi-agile" implementation phase, the Excel backlog was imported to the Jira work management application. For this, I did let the ChatGPT AI-service to write the script creating the Jira-importable file out of the Excel. The project had several technical teams, some of which 'served' one or more of the business teams (Team-of-Teams structure was used). The result was one Jira project where the technical teams owned the stories and the business teams owned the epics, and where each team had its own view (Jira board). For the program management, I recommended the Structure.Gantt Jira add-on, which turned out to be an excellent tool for presenting and dynamically slicing the backlog of a large program.
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