How can you tell if Technogeekaphobia™ may be affecting your team?
• IT Projects are typically late, over-budget, or unsuccessful.
• Unhealthy tension exists between IT staff and other members of your team.
• There is high turnover or low productivity in your IT department.
• Your technical professionals (TechnoGeeks) tend to feel disaffected, estranged or unmotivated.
Technogeekaphobia™ tends to affect managers and users that depend on Information Technology products and services.
Early signs include shortness of breath, intense sweating, a reddening face, and bulging veins as the deadline for an IT project approaches. Sound like members of your team?
Technogeekaphobia™ can be found at the root of most IT Project failures. Late projects are often late because or poor planning. User Requirements are not clearly defined. Poor communication practices are allowed to exist. The same issues can cause budget overruns, and can cause projects to proceed to the end while missing key components.
Industry analysts have attributed these failures to a multitude of issues including poor project management practices, unclear communication channels, etc.
But underlying it all is Technogeekaphobia™, which prevents us from having productive relationships with technical professionals.
Dennis Houchin has spent the past 30 years working with and managing TechnoGeeks in a wide range of industries. Find out what he can do for you and your team.
Technogeekaphobia™ is a term coined by Dennis Houchin to describe one of the most common causes of IT project failure.
With more than three decades in the IT field, Dennis has developed a unique understanding of this problem.