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- Ed Yourdon on IT governance and failure [podcast]
- Ed Yourdon is a seminal figure in understanding and interpreting software failures. Among Ed's many accomplishments is writing 27 books and almost 600 articles on this subject. I interviewed Ed to learn his views on the relationship between governance and IT project failure. ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
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- News to know: Conficker; TomTom vs. Microsoft; Intel; Google
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough Larry Dignan: Enterprises thrown a lifeline as Conflicker worm looms ...
- Blog posts 2009-03-31
- Millennials: Will they really reinvent IT?
- I'm having a bit of a Millennials moment. I'm sick of the coverage about Millennials, also known as Generation Y. Here's the story line: Generation Y will change the world as the first digital natives. They will change business practices and IT as we know it. You must adapt to...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- IT is from Mars; Business is from Venus
- Relations between IT and business can be frustrating for both sides. Some observers call this mutual animosity "lack of alignment." Ed Yourdon, esteemed grand explainer of IT failures, summarized the issue in an interview with this blog: The question is: whether IT is building the kinds...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- The CIO's innovation dilemma
- The often uncomfortable relationship between IT and business is nothing new but has taken on fresh piquancy. The visibility achieved by the impact coming from the use of socialprise I have seen among major brands fuels that debate. There is a history here and I sense that...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Is IT becoming extinct?
- Update 3/26/08: Also see 5 tips to prevent IT extinction. Since the days of punch cards, IT has believed itself to be guardian of precious computing resources against attacks from non-technical barbarians known as "users." This arrogant attitude, born of once-practical necessity in...
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- 13 reasons IT hates metrics
- I've blogged about the importance of establishing clear metrics to help align IT and business, especially in relation to areas such as project portfolio management. In a great counterpoint, Ed Yourdon has compiled a list of "13 common political problems associated with metrics initiatives." Ed's a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3F
- What+about+the+trust+issues+in+the+Microsoft%2FYahoo+bid%3FSuarez, Morris, Wood, Walsh, Yourdon, James... never heard of any of them!Luis Suarez, Tom Morris, Al Wood, Paul Walsh, Ed Yourdon, Nigel James... I've never heard of any of these people before. Am I the only one?!Gotta love the "social web", where anyone with a blog or a facebook...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- What about the trust issues in the Microsoft/Yahoo bid?
- Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! raises many questions. High in the list will be discovering Microsoft plans for the merged development organizations. On the press call, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO was careful to point out the extent to which Microsoft 'respects' Yahoo!'s development efforts. The fact is that Yahoo! is...
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Naked IT: Author Ed Yourdon on the IT / business divide (includes podcast)
- The Naked IT interview series talks with innovators about the evolving relationship between IT and business. Please listen to the audio podcast and enjoy the additional information included in this blog post. In this segment, we meet Ed Yourdon, an internationally-recognized author and...
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Forget predictions, get a wishlist
- At this time of the year, pundits of all stripes seek to grab attention by appearing sage and wise by making predictions for the coming year. Heck, I've done it myself - and lived to regret such pretensions. This year I prefer to pen an enterprise wishlist because that's...
- Blog posts 2007-12-26
- Twitter is useful
- It's not often I call out my fellow Irregulars we usually have those arguments in our Google Group but on this occasion, Mike Krigsman has got this notion that 'Twitter is dangerous' wrong to the point of scaremongering. Mike uses the example of confidential information leaking...
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Wipro chief: Indian companies heading for the top
- Wipro chief: Indian companies heading for the topStupid Idea!Nothing is worse than being stuck on the phone with someone you can't understand. Outsourcing is a really stupid idea and Americans hate it!Ed Yourdon had it right the first timeDecline and Fall of the American Programmer was right-on. Not that anybody...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-07
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