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Australian Cargo

David Jacobsons blog describes a report prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton, analyzing problems in the Australian Integrated Cargo System. The system is intended to track goods coming into Australia by either air or sea. A variety of implementation problems with system resulted in traffic congestion and escalating costs, and the...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-07-17

Medical Emergency

CIO magazine has an article written by Allan Holmes, describing Maines attempt to develop and deploy a web-based system for processing Medicaid claims and payments. The project was started back in 2001, to help the state to modernize its systems and also ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, Implementation, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-04-23

Poor, Poor FBI

About a year ago, the FBI annouced they had this little problem: the agency built a software system, called the Virtual Case File, that never saw the light of day. You see, the software designers never asked the users what they actually did need. So, the FBI spent $170M developing...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Additional Resources

Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion

I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Why open source remains an ideological divide

Oh that was superb.Open Source.Stand for something! :)you are ideological from the startIf you want to remove ideology from the equation your clearly state your needs - functionnal, commercial and technical support ... etc, and compare available solutions.Price might be a key factor and it might not; availability of srouce...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

What Is Formal Project Management and Who Needs It?

Over the past 15 years, project management as a profession has migrated from construction and manufacturing into virtually all other business sectors, including the IT sector. The Project Management Institute PMI and the British Office of Government Commerce OGC have developed practice standards to encourage and guide the adoption of...

Tags: Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

White papers 2009-08-21

To the Moon: The Integrators

The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return...

Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, Mission, Computer, IBM Corp., UNIVAC, Productivity, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Senate introduces important IT watchdog bill

Senate introduces important IT watchdog billYes! Visibility enables insight and accountabilityThis is so great to hear. Yes, I agree that many folks will view this as "introducing yet another layer of complexity and bureaucracy", especially those folks who characterize everything government does in this way.I agree with you and I...

Tags: Strategy, information technology, IT Watchdog, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2009-05-01

Chuck Norris Syndrome and IT failure

Chuck Norris Syndrome and IT failurelololoolloolARghhhhhhh thx for the good laugh you make my day man .....Chuck norris syndrome arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhHuman's Hate ChangeThis is a statement I make repeatedly - in every presentation I ever deliver and especially in my Process Management presentation. So your following summation truly...

Tags: Strategy, Chuck Norris Syndrome, information technology, IT Failure, Chuck Norris

Discussion threads 2009-04-28

UK Companies House: an end user nightmare

In the UK, limited liability companies have to file a ream of documents with Companies House. In very much the same way the SEC works. Only Companies House electronic filing system - just like many UK public sector  IT projects - is an unholy mess. So common is the problem...

Tags: Companies House, Jake, Card Detail, Document Management, E-mail, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Software in the Obama world

Is it time for a changing of the software guard? A lot of material has crossed my desk lately regarding software sales in the Obama, crisis-cleanup world. There is some interesting material here and two vendors stand out in the midst. First, let’s discuss...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, OpenAir Inc., Entity, PBO, Government Contractor, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Project Management, Emerging Technologies, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-03-02

What BearingPoint

What BearingPointGood riddance?The Brits are finding out the hard way about digitizing medical records. Their own national IT project is way over budget and not very close to a solution (I know because I read the Register!). If the FBI can't even get their case file system working, what chance...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate law, Outsourcing, Operational accounting, Financial services, Brits, BearingPoint Inc., acquisition

Discussion threads 2009-02-23

Optimizing the Management of Infrastructure Projects in State and Local Government

State and local governments face numerous challenges when initiating and overseeing public works projects. These include the rising cost of administrative overhead, poor visibility into project operations, and inaccurate forecasting of project cost. Unaddressed, these challenges lead to runaway cost escalation and loss of control over project operations. Administrative overhead...

Tags: Family And Medical Leave Act, Vecna Technologies, Government, Regulations, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-01-05

Study: 68% of IT projects fail

Study: 68% of IT projects failI used to work for the federal government......we never got anywhere near a 32% success rate. More like 10%.This is OK since IT in US is not a business but humanitarian aid to India.ntRE: Study: 68% of IT projects failIs this problem down to the...

Tags: Strategy, Now Let, IT Projects Fail, PMI, IAG, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-12-11

11 "Laws of IT Physics"

11 "Laws of IT Physics"Communication is the overriding key factor.The biggest IT failures are a result of not communicating effectively.So do it, communicate clearly and fully. I mean communication in all directions: internal and external and both up-stream and down-stream management. Most importantly, include the people who will be...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Earned Value’s Ascendancy in PPM

EVM & PPM earning new respect In the last few weeks, several vendors have made material announcements involving Earned Value EV. Earned Value or Earned Value Management EVM is a key concept in project management. The roots of this date back to the 1960s in...

Tags: NetSuite Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., PPM, Individual Step, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Government, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Emerging Technologies, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2008-10-23

America's airways ready for NextGen

It's time â€" long past time â€" to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...

Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10