{"id":6003,"date":"2015-08-03T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T22:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:26:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:26:46","slug":"breaking-silos-gaining-control-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/breaking-silos-gaining-control-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Down Silos and Gaining Control of IT Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

In enterprises today, it is all too common for departments outside the IT organization to implement new systems, which we all have been convinced are amazing because of x, y, and z and absolutely critical for them to get their job done. Okay great. Well what happens when that system that IT didn\u2019t even know about breaks down and suddenly they who shall remain nameless can\u2019t do their job (ahem, marketing) until it gets fixed? Oh right, IT is called to save the day.<\/p>\n

Now we know this rarely happens and isn\u2019t a real problem in organizations today, right? Yeah. So let\u2019s get ahead of it this time so those marketing cowboys don\u2019t freak out when their emails all bounce or their website crashes.<\/p>\n

Siloed working teams and entire departments develop all the time. It\u2019s natural to converse with the people on your team and get tunnel vision for the rest – it happens to the best of us. But from an organizational standpoint, it\u2019s not ideal at best, and at worst it can be detrimental. So many invested applications become redundant because each silo has their own (which could easily be consolidated), there becomes a hodge-podge of applications supporting quite frankly very important business functions, and in too many cases the entire system infrastructure is in a single person\u2019s head. Of course this is not always the case, but you get the idea. Silos create a multitude of challenges and downright inefficiencies; it pains me.<\/p>\n

Some of the challenges I see all the time are:<\/p>\n