Community ManagerKaruana_Gatimu_MSFTI read your first quote and said....."Ouch!" Then was happy with what followed. I believe in the IT delivery industry there is a foundational element that has existed which separates technology providers and business based IT related acumen. Technologist are raised in one vertical silo and service delivery from business prospective generally migrated from technical side of IT. We gravitate to what is comfortable for us. There is a need for both but I feel we are in this together. We should not categorize each of us on one side of the other because all of us are both. To varying degrees. The extreme technologist I have to believe has a bit of the other in order to be valuable to final delivery and visa versa. When working in a talented project team, how do we support each other to bring out the other side in each one of us to bring us closer together?
A champion is one that has understanding of business intent and at the appropriate level, the required technical expertise to understand how they are so closely integrated. Horizontal vision and not vertical. In IT a fundamental, very simple conceptual model, is PPT. People, Process, Technology. A triangle. There is such an important need to have representatives at each of the vertices and because they have a passion for it. A champion most likely is born within the vertices but matures ultimately to exist in the lines that connect the vertices. At first in simple form but with time to embrace the more complex. Without experts living in the lines, i.e. Champions, IT initiatives will fail.
