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🐇 When Alice follows the white rabbit in Lewis Caroll\u2019s 1885 novel \u2018Alice in Wonderland\u2019, she falls down a rabbit hole and enters into Wonderland, a complex, surreal world full of unexpected turns and challenges.<\/p>\n
🧭 Since then the expression \u2018avoiding rabbit holes\u2019 is used to describe the practice of not getting side-tracked\u00a0<\/strong>by fascinating but overly detailed, irrelevant, or too complex topics that deviate from the main objective.<\/p>\n When doing Technology Due Diligence (TDD) this common pitfall is always on my mind. TDD missions are high intensity\u00a0🔥\u00a0and must deliver impact in a limited timeframe.\u00a0⏳\u00a0There is no room for distraction.<\/p>\n So where to focus? As always in IT there is no binary answer, it depends.\u00a0🙂<\/p>\n Luckily, we do know what it depends on<\/strong> and where to find the guiding principles<\/strong> for our analysis of people, processes, and technology. Here are some of them:<\/p>\n 🎯 First of all we have the investment thesis<\/strong> that provides the future expectations of the investor on the business (e.g. 10x increase in number of clients)<\/p>\n 🚀 Next up are the key growth initiatives<\/strong> of the target company (e.g. Secret Project X)<\/p>\n ⚖️ Then there are the specifics of the industry<\/strong> (e.g. compliance)<\/p>\n With this input we have the business context to<\/p>\n In other words, it gives us the focus<\/strong> we need to avoid rabbit holes and to deliver the clarity and insight the investors need 🌟.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Technology Due Diligence (TDD) focus is crucial. So how can we avoid the many potential rabbit holes that come our way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tdd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n