IT Hygiene

Regardless of the industry you are in, as a leader or professional with more than 10 years of experience in your field, you know what good looks like in your domain. You have seen it before, and you have seen the opposite of it as well and with one glance you can recognize when it's present and when it's not.

You also know how hard it is to achieve something good, what it gives you and how to navigate gray areas and compromises, as there's generally a tradeoff between the resources you have and the goals you need to achieve.

IT is the same, after you have done it for a while. Whether you look at how vendors are managed, contracts are kept, cloud architecture designed, code written and more, you can tell what is going well and what can be improved. My strong belief is that, although in general everything can be improved and needs to be as good as possible, as an IT or business leader, you need to have a minimum IT baseline in place, or hygiene of best practices, that is not negotiable and start from there.

Over the next few blog posts, I intend to go into details of what IT best practices and hygiene look like across a number of IT disciplines. As time goes, I find the bar goes up, but many of these principles will stand the test of time. Stay tuned.

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