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Can seven rules help enterprises align business goals and IT spending? Tushar K. Hazra, a senior consultant at Cutter Consortium in Arlington, Mass., believes so. Here are his ground rules:
- Recognize the expectations of business sponsors.
- Identify the true (not derived) cost benefits of IT projects.
- Review how business values will be measured. Without quantitative measures, there's no way to take corrective action.
- Define the roles and responsibilities of every employee, a prerequisite for accountability.
- Capture requirements for compliance with regulations, policies and procedures. "In terms of information architecture, compliance lets you do a better job," says Hazra.
- Agree on periodic milestone reviews, inspections and deliverables.
- Build and manage ground rules with incremental improvements from lessons learned. This offers a consistent way to manage relationships between business and IT groups.
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