Like many of you, I have sat in meetings where the whole focus of the meeting is coming up with reasons not to do something; at times, it seems that the whole reason to hold meetings in IT is come up with reasons not to do something.
Actually, it is amazing that we have so many meetings considering that most of them appear to revolve around the word ‘No’. I think that is what is so scary about Cloud and building scalable, flexible, dynamic infrastructures; your default answer should become ‘Yes’…
It might be ‘Yes but…’ to start with but that has got to be a step forward from where many organisations are today. Start from a position of ‘Yes’ or at least start from the position building the Castle before throw rocks trying to knock it down. Stop pummelling yourself and your customers with rocks before you’ve even begun.
And stop having meetings where the whole focus is to say ‘No’!
