Cross functional teams, the key for IT Tailored Projects Success...

There are a lot of brand new technologies to develop new killer Web Enabled Information Systems covering different business models.

With the new strive on .NET and its features (LINQ, Silverligt, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL Server,RDLC Reporting), the information flow of business processes can be improved significantly like it never did before.

This will for certain impact Business and operations in the future, as we see the increase of the dependency on this new systems that will flourish gradually.

However for the projects development success, Cross-Functional teams really do matter to fill any existing GAP between Technology and Business/Operations Processes...

Knowledge is the key, but extensive knowledge of Operations and Technology might be just to overwhelming.

The development Team must be aware of the latest technologies that can be used, and the business/Operations/Process analysts/Managers must be aware of the Processes/Operations/Services being covered as well of a plan to make it more efficient.

The challenge is to make Technology team and Business team communicate and work together targeting the defined previously agreed improvement plan.

Translating this to your business, you would be surprised to see how operations can be improved when supported by a proper Information system tailored for your particular business.

Developers (Engineers and or Programmers) and business/Operations/Process analysts/Managers designing new platforms and taking it up to a new level...

The questions is if this knowledge exists in-house? If yes Great, if not outsource or build temporary team to support project development, but the costs might increase significantly...

Remember it takes only two persons to build such a team, a software Engineer/Developer and Operations/business/Process manager, both can deploy today what in the past had to be delivered by extensive teams.

Pretty much the same way it is needed a designer and a tailor to make the perfect suite, the same applies here...


Best Regards.