Since I wrote last September’s article Bimodal IT: Gartner’s Recipe For Disaster lambasting Gartner’s advice on Bimodal IT, quite a number of analysts, pundits, and other professionals have jumped on the bandwagon. In this article I’ll review several of the most insightful comments taking issue with Gartner’s advice that have appeared since my September 2015 article.
I won’t, however, present Gartner’s side of this discussion, as they are quite capable of doing so themselves – other than to quote Gartner’s definition of Bimodal IT from their glossary: “Bimodal IT is the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery, one focused on stability and the other on agility. Mode 1 is traditional and sequential, emphasizing safety and accuracy. Mode 2 is exploratory and nonlinear, emphasizing agility and speed.”
Here’s the latest pushback on Gartner’s advice to follow this practice.
Forrester Leading the Charge
Gartner competitor Forrester Research is leading the anti-Bimodal charge with The False Promise Of Bimodal IT, a report by Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst John C. McCarthy, Forrester Vice President and Group Research Director Sharyn Leaver and others. “At a time when businesses need to drive speed and agility, it makes no sense to have two groups competing for funding, resources, skills and the business’s attention,” according to the report.
Read the entire article at http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2016/06/26/bimodal-backlash-brewing/.
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