By Robert Ford You should consider each rogue projects a personal and professional failure. The customers of information technology, which is now almost everyone, are not receiving the level of service they need or are paying for.
Good service is creative, technical solutions to fast-arriving business opportunities.
This will cost you money and, by the way, we won't have anyone available for three months. More and more the customers are becoming educated and skilled with the tools of the trade databases, HTML, Web programming and going out on their own. Or they are hiring consultants and burying the costs in other budgets. As an IT manager or director, you have likely stumbled across these skunkwork projects and may fear that you have hit only the tip of the iceberg. You should consider each of these rogue projects a personal and professional failure.