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- Enterprise software development from an IT failures perspective
- Ever wonder how they develop and market enterprise software? The cartoon below says it all. This cartoon comes from projectcartoon.com. You're looking at a customized version I created using their tool. Does this version of reality match your experience? Leave...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cartoon, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Stepford: A vision of IT utopia
- In this ideal world, business users gratefully accept whatever techno-babble nonsense IT throws at them, with technology having become utterly divorced from any business purpose whatsoever. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Vision, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman, Utopia, Cartoon, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]
- Picking up on my post about failed IT culture, Oliver Widder has drawn another great Geek and Poke cartoon: Sadly, this cartoon describes the norm in many organizations, where projects are uncontrolled spending machines: defined poorly, executed abysmally, and ultimately headed for inevitable...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cartoon, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- The perfect project [cartoon]
- In a rather Zen-like moment of ironic counterpoint, Geek and Poke riffs on doomed projects with a cartoon: by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Cartoon, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Geeks in the wild [cartoon]
- Something to lighten your Saturday morning from Geek and Poke. If you don't get the joke...well, it probably means you have a life, so here's a hint. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Hint, Geek, Cartoon, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Cloud computing: simply explained (cartoon)
- Perfect for a lazy Memorial Day afternoon, another great cartoon from Geek and Poke. If you live in the US, hope you're enjoying the holiday. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Cartoon, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-26
- Enterprise 2.0 irony [cartoon]
- Dennis Howlett raised the issue of posturing in the Enterprise 2.0 world and I followed with a discussion of social media power politics and naivete. Now, Geek and Poke offers up this cartoon in response. Sometimes humor tells the most serious story. ...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Cartoon, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Geek and Poke: IT cartoons
- Oliver Widder has been tracking me and a few other bloggers. I mean that in a nice way: he draws cartoons about ironic and silly IT situations, using several IT blogs as source material. Really worth a look! Here's his rendition of my post on offshore outsourcing:...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cartoon, Oliver Widder, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
Additional Resources
- News to know: AMD; iPhone security; Linux; SAP
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: AMD to spin off manufacturing. Techmeme Heather Clancy: The color that shall not be named. AMD's Vertal downplays green credentials, plays up efficiency arguments ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Information Technology, SAP AG, RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Linux, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Servers, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Strategy, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- ZDNet editorial independence and blogging about politics [off-topic]
- Following a political cartoon posting, some folks incorrectly suggested that ZDNet and CBS management have influence over blog content. That suggestion is flat wrong. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Blog, CBS Corp., Blogging, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- More on dinosaurs and extinction
- Yesterday's post on IT extinction caused quite a ruckus. While preparing my follow-up, fellow Enterprise Irregular and Gartner research director, Thomas Otter, sent this cartoon. Dear reader, please enjoy it as a brief interlude in our discussion. ...
- Tags: Extinction, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Complexity and false hope
- It's hard to simplify complexity. Sometimes, this painful reality causes managers to grasp at straws and wallow in denial, seeking the allure of easy, yet ultimately pointless, solutions. The following Geek and Poke cartoon precisely captures this unfortunate, yet all too common, phenomenon: ...
- Tags: Complexity, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- Rescuing software trainwrecks, without sacrificing goats
- Peter Sterpe, of Forrester Research, has pulled together excellent and practical techniques to fix failing IT projects. His report, titled Rescuing Train Wrecks: Putting Derailed Software Projects Back On Track, reminds us that most failed projects can be turned around if the right steps are taken....
- Tags: Software, Project, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Consultant's guide to lowering project failure rates
- Wondering how to reduce high project failure rates in your organization? See Geek and Poke's cartoon: by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
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