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Whenever you hear of a new IT project starting up with a large budget, teams of tens or hundreds of people, and a timeline of many months before something actually gets shipped, you can expect the project will go over time and budget and not deliver the expected value.

I've been reading through Lean Enterprise. It's good. It's like a summary of the last 5 or so years of software product development strategy think (how do make a business and products that people will use and result in a high company valuation), sprinkle with hints of how to apply that in enterprise-land.

There's the explore/exploit loop (some thick academic reading there if you're into PDFs) where I'm hoping the enterprise-y part starts to get involved more. I think the ratio between those two, compared to tech startups, is key to understanding enterprise IT, esp. when it comes to tryng to change. Lydia calls it "bi-modal" IT, which is a nice framing. Jonathan Murray also touches on it a bit in his talks about getting Warner Music to be more digital enterprise-y.