https://is42.fr/en/writing Field notes on framing, steering and delivering IT projects. en-GB https://is42.fr/en/writing/framing-not-code https://is42.fr/en/writing/framing-not-code Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project management When a project goes wrong, execution takes the blame. More often, the fault traces back to a question nobody ever asked properly. https://is42.fr/en/writing/three-numbers-reporting https://is42.fr/en/writing/three-numbers-reporting Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project management A dashboard of twenty indicators does not get read. Three well-chosen numbers trigger decisions. https://is42.fr/en/writing/scope-and-out-of-scope https://is42.fr/en/writing/scope-and-out-of-scope Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project management Writing down what you will do is easy. Writing down what you will not do is what holds a budget together. https://is42.fr/en/writing/what-a-steering-committee-produces https://is42.fr/en/writing/what-a-steering-committee-produces Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project management A committee that produces minutes has failed. A committee produces decisions, dated and assigned. https://is42.fr/en/writing/taking-over-a-running-project https://is42.fr/en/writing/taking-over-a-running-project Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project management Arriving on a project already under way calls for the opposite method to a fresh start: establish facts before deciding anything. https://is42.fr/en/writing/reading-an-it-quote https://is42.fr/en/writing/reading-an-it-quote Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Project management Four points are enough to tell a solid quote from one that will overrun: what is excluded, how the price moves, what you keep, and what happens if it slips. https://is42.fr/en/writing/model-before-tooling https://is42.fr/en/writing/model-before-tooling Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data Changing platform does not fix a definitions problem. The model comes before the tool, always. https://is42.fr/en/writing/where-to-place-data-checks https://is42.fr/en/writing/where-to-place-data-checks Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data A pipeline that fails silently is worse than no pipeline: it feeds decisions with wrong numbers. https://is42.fr/en/writing/batch-or-streaming https://is42.fr/en/writing/batch-or-streaming Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data The question is not technical but commercial: which decision becomes impossible if the data is four hours old? https://is42.fr/en/writing/data-governance-without-bureaucracy https://is42.fr/en/writing/data-governance-without-bureaucracy Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Data Governance that produces committees and documents nobody reads costs more than it returns. Three mechanisms are enough.