The Technology Garden

I have been sent an early copy of a book due to be published next week. It's called "The Technology Garden" (ISBN 978-0-470-05969-2), and is written by Jon Collins, Neil Macehiter, Dale Vile and Neil Ward-Dutton - thanks chaps. It's all about the alignment between business and IT, how to get it, how to maintain it.

I haven't had the time to read it all yet (will do that on the flight to US on Sunday), but I love the general idea, which is that IT departments tend to be like gardens. Most of us inherit a garden with a house, which may not be perfect or exactly what we want, but we have to decide how to work with it. We have to feed it, prune it, weed it etc. or it ends up in chaos. Good analogy.

I'll give you a full report when I finsih it, but in the meantime here is a class quote from it:

"It's vital to remember that a service is something you experience, not something you build."