Excellent article from McKinsey.
Technology Choices
- Force-fitting technology solutions: Are you choosing technology out of context?
- Adopting cutting-edge tech that’s not fully mature: Are you adopting new technology that seems promising but doesn’t have a proven track record?
- Building out your own cloud infrastructure without sufficient capabilities: Have you let security and regulation block your adoption of public cloud?
Technology road map
- Initiating big-system-replacement programs: Are you focusing on system replacement rather than improving existing systems in a way that is faster and more cost-effective?
- Focusing on architecture and tooling improvements without enhancing process and delivery discipline: Did you re-architect and implement new tooling but forget to adapt the delivery processes?
Technology management
- Focusing on outputs rather than business outcomes: Are your technologists focused on output instead of business/technology outcome?
- Managing IT purely for cost: Are you sacrificing significant value by overindexing on price and cost?
- Investing in developing new platforms without involving the business: Is your primary focus platform development instead of platform adoption by the business?
Managing technologists
- Outsourcing your core value streams: Are vendors doing the work that creates the most value for your business
- Building up an army of managers rather than developing an engineering culture: Do you value your managers more than your engineers?
Antipatterns that are derailing technology transformations | McKinsey