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Accountability is normally not fully understood and we’ve found in many cases this continues to be the situation for not having adequate accountabilities for project objectives and outcomes. There tends to be a misunderstanding between the terms accountability and responsibility.
Yes it is different! Project Management practices have evolved into highly professional techniques and tools, but sadly the “managing” part for some reason lagged behind and never enjoyed the same status. This is especially true in the IT community.
If you cannot develop a useful hypothesis for a specific problem situation, you do not have a worthwhile cause to be considered. A hypothesis in itself is a test of your ability to link a cause to that of the incident/fault experienced.
If you want to put fear in the hearts of IT Professionals, ask them to “think out of the box.” It is not that they cannot do it rather than the fact that they are not used to doing that in dealing with IT problems and Incidents.
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