“Our industry is like a canary in a mine

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This is one of the reasons why we often need auditing orconsulting companies - because they look at the situation from the outside, andthey are not doing it for the first time. Man in the maze We treat part of theproblem as something obvious and unchangeable People usually don't like change.And they also easily get used to the current status quo or existing practices.We rarely ask ourselves why it is this way and not otherwise. And if allparticipants in the project group assume that a certain practice is simply "life",they will not even think that it can be changed.

And the greatest power lies in changing such aspects.A manbreaking last database down a wall when the door is open We want to shoot a sparrow with acannon Another common threat is that we want to solve a small problem in a verycomplicated, complex or difficult way. And all textbooks agree that the simplersomething can be achieved, the better. We are reinventing the wheel Not beingspecialists in a specific field, we do not know the solutions that alreadyexist on the market or are obvious. This may result in us spending a lot oftime on something that is very difficult to implement or very easy and eventrivial. That's why we attend training sessions and invite consultants to sharetheir knowledge.

We will make bad assumptions Without a fresh perspectivefrom the outside, we can make bad assumptions. And unfortunately, a mistake oreven not the best decision at the very beginning can result in great costs. Inthe context of IT projects, the diagram below shows the cost of change (e.g.caused by a bad decision). The later we detect a bad decision, the greater thecost of change. A diagram showing the cost of fixing the error in relation tosubsequent stages of the project We are not experts in everything Everyone knowstheir area of ​​competence thoroughly and is very good at their job.