Currently on my mind

I’ve been in both situations, delivering large projects both with and without, and I must say it's a luxury to actually see what is happening under the hood, in real time, that you soon can't live without. Also I must suggest to have a  real time dashboards showing the full picture, ie. both tech and business KPIs in one unified view. I wouldn’t say no to using AppDynamics, Splunk and Qlikview for the job but there are cheaper alternatives (for example  Elastic search/Logstash/Kibana can be used to get full overview of your logs). The cost? Yes, it does cost but it pays back fairly quick in your distributed environment when you have the volumes. Do I need it, you might ask? It depends. How critical is quality? What's the cost of incidents and downtime? Do you want to provide the tools for development to take full responsibility of their code all the way into production?  Follow me on Twitter: mandus_engman

What would happen if you chose an open source e-commerce platform for your organisation , let say Hybris,  Magento , osCommerce or OpenCart, all based on the technical features provided. Then you outsource further development and customization of all those features to a big development team in India for a couple of months. First after this, when the above steps are finalized, you turn to business and want to start integrate with the business processes you actually have. Do you think success will be a fact? Learnings:  We all know it but still things go wrong – start by understanding your business and your business needs. Today, you can't expect a business critical IT project to be successful without business and IT/Tech running it together.   Follow me on Twitter: mandus_engman