Agility in everything we do

I’m glad we decided to opt for agility in absolutely everything we do. This means choosing vendors, systems, solutions and hiring people with one question front and center: “will this decision help us go faster?”

No? Keep shopping.

We can move only as fast as our slowest component. In these times it’s important to be a winning IT team. Too many companies have settled for old school, slow, bureaucratic and risk-averse IT culture. They pay the price: disgruntled managers, defensive IT people, excuses and recriminations.

I’m so tired of dealing with defensive IT people who hide behind SAS70 or HIPAA or some other irrefutable piece of legislation, to tell us we can’t have what we want, quickly, and without a big fuss. It’s my mission these days to deliver technology solutions as fast as the business can absorb them. If the lawyers and the marketing people can move fast, then my team can too.

Here’s a sketch of our ecosystem, and a deck we presented at Dreamforce 2010 describing our approach to integration – frequently the slow boat in any SaaS architecture -and why we chose SnapLogic. So far, we have been very successful, though a rapid pace of delivery can also bring its own problems. Regardless, this is always better than regressing to old school IT with its bureaucrats and go-slow excuses. We’re having a great to at work.

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