Re: Here's my list, and not just for banks...
While I pretty much agree with all of your points, I don't mind working with contractors that are technical specialists. Team composition should be around personality, skill and general capabilities. You generally need more than one type of tool in your belt to create a system.
The big unacknowledged issue is that banks have lost a huge amount of business knowledge. If you want to build a new system you need to know what and how and why the current system does what it does .
The staff in head office who have never been without the existing system and have not been in their current role more than 18 months are useless SME.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
