With the economy being so bad companies across industries are struggling to generate revenues. Sales are down across broad swaths of industries and business Vice Presidents are scrambling and subjecting IT to do new tricks that have never been done before. It is quite a thing to see projects being prioritized and re-prioritized endlessly to appease one business Vice President only to change order next week to appease another business Vice President.
The business analysts and project managers are caught in the crossfire and don't know what to do!
Although the Enterprise 2.0 revolution has been underway for the last 2 years in a more robust way, not all companies are caught up. Email is heavily abused to send attachments of sizes over 10 MB if possible. Various business requirements are lost, meeting notes miss certain points, lot of repeat meetings occur to rehash what was said in some other meeting!
The expedient solution is to immediately implement a Enterprise Wiki. Open source solution such as MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org) can get a company started immediately, as long as there is a spare server with decent CPU, RAM and RAID 1+0 hard disks.
Atlassian's Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com) is another excellent solutions that can be obtained for $8000 for enterprise license.
In short Enterprise Wiki is a must have, otherwise the he said she said, will continue and business and IT will continue to get frustrated and no permanent record of everything the stakeholders said and did will be lost in the email abyss!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
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