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- Kill your dead horse failures fast!
- Some projects will never (as in no chance, baby) achieve intended goals, despite substantial investment of time, resources, and political capital. For your own sake, kill these failures fast. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Failure, Investment, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- SystemUp Harddisk 2009 1.4 (Windows)
- Professional Harddisk Protection System SystemUp Harddisk 2009 monitors your local drives and gives detailed recommendations and performance reports regarding Health, Performance and Temperature of you drives. Using a special algorithm, SystemUp Harddisk is able to calculate a percentage value and detects failures before they happen. A fully customizable alarm system...
- Tags: Performance, Microsoft Windows, Failure, zoneLink Software, Performance Management, Engineering, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Software downloads 2009-06-04
- Reiki: Serviceability Architecture and Approach for Reduction and Management of Product Service Incidents
- There is a significant number of IT failures per year because parts fail, products are used in ways they were not designed for, and humans make errors in using products. These failures result in incidents that product vendors service as a part of the warranty or contracts. Incidents incur significant...
- Tags: Incident, IEEE, Failure, Call Centers, It Operations
- White papers 2009-04-21
- 5 reasons to discuss failure
- There are five key reasons I believe analyzing failures leads to greater insight and higher value than merely talking about success. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Failure, Blogging, Professional Development, Project Management, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Career, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- IDC Directions09: Analyst perspectives on IT failure
- While attending the Directions09 conference in Boston today, I explored why IT projects fail in conversations with two IDC analysts. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Failure, International Data Corp., Business Stakeholder, Melinda, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- UK prison IT: Massive and 'spectacular' failure
- The UK National Offender Management Information System project failed amid scathing attacks, accusations of mismanagement, and vast budget overruns. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Project, Information Technology, Supplier, Failure, C-NOMIS, NOMS, Offender Database, Strategy, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- Failure statistics in Yemen
- Not technology, but definitely related to failed projects, the Yemeni government released statistics about failure in various industry segments. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Failure, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- Sixteen IT failures to remember
- Here's a list of 16 IT failures worth remembering. Covering a full-range of devastated projects from both government and private industry, this list shows the true diversity of IT failure. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Government, Management, Michael Krigsman, Payment, Failure, Automobile Industry, Tools & Techniques, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Agile: Anatomy of a failed project
- Agile development could not overcome fundamental misunderstandings that ultimately led to catastrophic project failure. Here's why. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Project Failure, Anatomy, Michael Krigsman, Project, Customer, Failure, Agile, Mitch Lacey, Corporate Communications, Team Management, Marketing, Management
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Project Darwinism? [photo]
- Do successful projects possess an evolutionary superiority advancing the overall state of project capability in the world? The answer is shown in a photo of "pumpkin Darwinism." by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Photograph, Michael Krigsman, Violence, Failure
- Blog posts 2008-10-26
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- Each major section in BIT ends with a case study - this is the Cutter Mills case from 2001 illustrating the governance issues associated with appliance computing. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: Paul Murphy, Cost, Supply Chain, Application, Marketing, Smart Display, PC, Information Technology, Production, Vendor, Project Manager, IBM AS/400, Product, Customer, Order, ERP, Supplier, Plan, Finance, Failure, Decision, Systems Management, Cutter Mills, Cutter, Changes, Bugtoaster, 4Cost Information, 5Estimates, Actuals, Cost Difference, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Supply Chain Management (SCM), UNIX, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Business change failures: 9 success tips
- Transforming and improving business operations lies at the heart of successful IT implementations. Here are 9 guidelines to avoid failure. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Failure, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman, Business Process, Information Technology, Logica, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- On IT failure: IDC group vice president Mike Fauscette [podcast]
- IDC's Group Vice President, Mike Fauscette, leads a team of enterprise software analysts for one of the largest research firms in the world. To better understand IT failures, read this interview. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Vice President, International Data Corp., Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Michael Krigsman, Software, Software Company, Failure, Tools & Techniques
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Categorizing failure and lining up ducks
- To really understand IT failures, it's helpful to organize, categorize, and line them up like ducks. I group IT failures into management process trials and technical tribulations. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Failure, Hardware, J.Crew, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Technical Glitch, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- The Road to Success When Simulations Fail: A Thoughtful Look at Finding the Good in Simulation Failure
- Planning for failure goes against probably every business-related brain cell one has, right? But think about the most successful business people and corporations in the world. Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Corporation, built his worldwide automobile company on the premise that "Success can only be achieved through repeated failure and...
- Tags: Failure, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-10-07
- Stop brain-dead software testing!
- Lousy software testing damages many IT projects. When testing doesn't uncover obvious problems that prevent software from operating as users expect, then failed projects are inevitable. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Software, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Software Testing, Failure, Erik Hollnagel, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- World's worst IT failure report
- Reporting failure requires balancing facts with making interpretations about why the failure occurred. One failure report violated all the rules. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Failure, Productivity, Channel Management, Retail, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- IT failure: The definition game
- What does IT "failure" actually mean? While this question should be easy to answer, many discussions on the topic become little more than word games. Simple metrics. Some observers, including myself, begin their analysis of failure with three criteria. We ask whether a...
- Tags: Game, Information Technology, Failure, Strategy, Roi/Tco, Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- Online storage service MediaMax, also called The Linkup, went out of business following a system administration error that deleted active customer data. The defunct company raises questions about the reliability of cloud computing. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Data, Failure, Storage, Hardware, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The triple sins that cause IT failure
- Why don't more organizations recognize potential IT project problems before they escalate into full-blown failures? Companies reject good solutions to fix bad projects for three reasons: internal politics, budget, and fear/pride. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Failure, Bruce F. Webster, Bruce, Team Management, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
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