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- ANNOUCEMENT: Moving to ZDNet
- Effective immediately, I am moving this blog to ZDnet, at the following address:http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/If you subscribe via RSS, please update your subscription to the following:http://feeds.feedburner.com/zdnet/projectfailuresDan Farber, Editor-in-Chief of ZDNet, invited me to join their blogging community; given the bright folks over there, I thought it would be a lot of fun....
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- Attending Red Herring East in Boston
- I will be attending the Red Herring East conference in Boston on June 26-28. If any blog readers want to get together, please get in touch.Im excited, since there should be a variety of new ideas and companies being presented. -----
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Annoucements
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Note to Enterprise 2.0 Conference Vendors and PR Reps
- Ive received a number of requests to meet with exhibitors at the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.Please understand this blog has one single focus: lowering the high incidence of IT project failures in organizations. Make your pitch letter relevant to that focus, and youre likely to get a response...
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Enteprise 2.0 Conference -- Complimentary Pass
- I still have one complimentary pass available for the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. If you want it, send me private email. Also, if you want to meet up for coffee or to chat, shoot me an email.-----
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- Seeking Failure Stories
- Dear Reader,I need failures. This is the projectfailures.com blog, and Im hoping youll send me your worst stories about software implementation projects that went wrong. Whether its projects that were over-budget, behind schedule, or just never completed, Im looking for the inside stories that you feel must see the light...
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2007-06-10
- Enterprise 2.0 Conference -- Boston
- I will be attending the Enterprise 2.0 Conference between June 18-21 in Boston. I would enjoy getting together with any readers or fellow bloggers, so let me know if you will be attending. Ive also got two complimentary passes, so contact me if you want one.-----
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Back to Blogging
- After a hectic month of traveling and consulting, its nice to be back here blogging again. I sure do respect bloggers who can write lots of posts regardless of what else is going on their life. Please let me know if there are specific topics you want to see discussed...
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- ANNOUCEMENT: CIO Insight Wants IT Horror Stories
- CIO Insight magazine wants your worst IT nightmares: heres a chance to tell the world your personal IT war stories.To fast-track your entry, send it directly to Debra DAgostino at CIO Insight magazine. Her email is: Debra_DAgostino@ziffdavis.com. Here is a description from Debra about exactly what they are seeking:Were looking...
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- Annoucement: Wednesday Interview Series
- Dear Deck Chairs Reader,Starting today, we will be initiaiting a series of weekly interviews with experts who are working in domains related to this blog. The experts will include CIOs, risk mangement experts, university professors, and others. As always, the common thread will be examining issues that influence the success...
- Tags: Annoucements
- Blog posts 2006-05-03
Additional Resources
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?
- Is Microsoft's fatal flaw the computer?Not realy, their flaw isThey honestly believe they know vastly more than everyone else, refuse to listen, and miss major oportunities.Not a fatal flaw, but MS recognizes the need to change.MS became dominant, the big dog with selling it's and only it's OS on PCs...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., fatal flaw, flaw, computer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-10-09
- Why a gPhone (Google Phone) is a lovely... no, an awful.. no, a lovely idea
- At last count, "consumers" was the No. 1 answer to Dana Blankenhorn's survey question asking who a Google Phone gPhone will help the most. Some are speculating that the gPhone will get announced along with some other news that Google is releasing on November 5. I...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Google Maps, YouTube Inc., Apple Inc., Experience, Truth, Service, gPhone, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Intel demos Nehalem 2nd generation 45nm CPU running Windows
- Intel demos Nehalem 2nd generation 45nm CPU running WindowsSell your AMD stock folksAs fast as you can...Interesting the demo was with XPWhy not Vista? Kind of says something if you ask me.Dont you use your computer?Are you just browsing and reading email?Almost everything that computer users do everyday is capable...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Tools & Techniques, Processors, Nehalem 2nd generation, CPU, Intel Corp., computer, software, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- In-flight Internet might work for you, but not for me
- In-flight Internet might work for you, but not for meI would use it, but only if free or very cheap. Otherwise, they can stickit where the sun don't shine. Also, unless you pay for the business class, you do not get power.Internet on flightsThis would be nice but no worth...
- Tags: INTERNET, Wi-Fi, Cable, WIRELESS, In-flight Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Apple announces record revenue, profit and Mac sales
- Apple announces record revenue, profit and Mac sales...and yet they still keep selling garbage like thishttp://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/18/macbook_apple_support_hell/Jobs' koolaid must be concentrated now!A little green in Redmond???Even though Microsoft gross sales are WAY more than Apple.Even though Microsoft could buy Apple N times.Even though Microsoft has a 9X% market share in OS's.Even...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Desktops, Notebooks, sales, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- IBM says, you don't need no operating system
- IBM says, you don't need no operating systemThat's not what I understood..That's what IBM is saying with its Open Client Offering. We will let you run Windows applications, Linux applications and very soon Macintosh applications in a single, seamless environment....Granted it is a press release and so real meat is...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, consulting, OS independence, IBM Corp., operating system, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- Sun's response to IBM's Summer '05 mainframe annoucements
- Sun's response to IBM's Summer '05 mainframe annoucementsInteresting response, considering they're losingInteresting response from Sun, considering that IBM is announcing two Sun take-outs today -- at Bryant College in Rhode Island and ContinentalExchange in Atlanta.
- Tags: Mainframes, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., mainframe
- Discussion threads 2005-09-22
- Longhorn buzz; a two-way look
- BT Trax isn’t the only tool doing the heavy lifting of processing mountains of content data and shaping into information. Intelliseek’s BlogPulse Trend Tool similarly applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the blogosphere. Taking it a step further, Umbria Communications is mining 10 million blogs, chat...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Blogging, BlogPulse, tool, Microsoft Longhorn
- Blog posts 2005-06-16
- Blogs, Wikis, RSS: Walking the enterprise tightrope
- Blogs, Wikis, RSS: Walking the enterprise tightropeTail wagging the dog?---"It's not the product the emphasis needs to be on social processes and practices."---The jest of that statement is that the method of delivery doesn't matter, only the message does. In my experience in management nothing could be further from...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, Wiki, RSS
- Discussion threads 2005-04-13
- Gates to announce Windows update tool
- Gates to announce Windows update toolGates to announce Windows update toolIt's good to see Microsoft releasing such a tool. Updating and patch management is a crucial part of any system administration. Helping people and working better, this is what its all about.It took then long enough... NT.Their current...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Patches, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, patch management, Microsoft Corp., tool, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Service Pack 2
- Discussion threads 2004-11-16
- Microsoft to take direct shots at Linux rivals
- Microsoft to take direct shots at Linux rivalsMessage has been deleted.They will LOSE this bloodbathWhile M$ may be getting a little more perceptive on how to attack its nonsense competition, they're "get cool" propaganda won't work. M$ just isn't cool anymore. They represent non-choice. Forever. M$ is always a quicksand.."come...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Linux, open source, Taylor
- Discussion threads 2004-09-15
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