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- Mining project requirements -- techniques to use before and after an interview
- Conducting a good interview to gather project requirements can be a daunting task -- particularly if you are interviewing a stakeholder who holds a high position in the organization, or has a reputation for making people uncomfortable. Good preparation and good follow-up are critical factors in a successful interview. ...
- Tags: Technique, Interview, Joe Goss, Productivity
- Download resources 2008-03-20
- Churchill Club interview: AT&T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson
- We belatedly bring you a podcast of the conversation between AT & T CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson and Quentin Hardy of Forbes. The interview took palce at the Churchill Club annual dinner on November 28, 2007. In the interview, Stephenson said that a 3G iPhone would...
- Tags: Alliance, Handset, AT&T Corp., Entertainment, Interview, 3G, Cellular Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Podcasts, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- William Gibson: Forget about corporate futurism
- Silicon.com has an interview the William Gibson, author of the cyberspace classic Neuromancer and of the just published Spook Country. In the interview, Gibson is asked why he doesn't write about the future in his latest books:The trouble is there are enough crazy factors and wild cards on the table...
- Tags: Silicon.com, Possibility, Interview, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- INTERVIEW: Don Dodge (Microsoft) on Avoiding Project Failure
- Don Dodge has been around the software industry for a long time. Currently Director of Business Development, Emerging Business Team, at Microsoft, Don works closely with startups and venture capitalists. I'm an avid reader of Don's blog called the Next Big Thing, so it was with pleasure that I ran...
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Interview
- Blog posts 2007-07-08
- RED HERRING EAST 2007: Plated Palms
- Paper plates are decidedly not sexy, or so I thought until I met Michael Dwork at the Red Herring East 2007 conference. Michael is CEO of VerTerra, a company that uses dried, organically-grown palm tree leaves from India to produce amazing disposable dishes. He graduated in 2007 from the Columbia...
- Tags: Red Herring East 2007, Interview
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- INTERVIEW: Paul Dandurand (CEO, PIEmatrix) on Project Failure and IT Governance
- At the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I was quietly eating essential nutrients cookies and coffee, when Paul Dandurand, founder and CEO of PIEmatrix, introduced himself. Paul’s company is developing a process management and governance solution for IT projects, and he’s no stranger to this field. Before starting PIEmatrix, Paul co-founded...
- Tags: Risk, Project strategy, Interview, Enterprise2conf
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Lunch with Arn Howitt (When Failure is NOT an Option)
- I had lunch yesterday with Arn Howitt and Lydia Segal. Arn teaches at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government, and is Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. He and Dutch Leonard run the Program on Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management at the Kennedy School. These...
- Tags: Project strategy, Interview, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- More on Simplification at SAP (Sapphire Vienna)
- A comment to this recent interview with Pascal Brosset got me thinking about implementation complexity. The commenter states: Hopefully the simplification will reduce implementation projects to a more human scale, making success more likely and less expensive. When Pascal refers to prescriptive solutions, I believe he is referring to exactly...
- Tags: Sapphire07, Interview, Implementation
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews
- Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much or too little pressure. Here's a look at typical missteps to watch out for. ...
- Tags: Job, Interview, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Download resources 2007-04-27
- INTERVIEW: Michael Gonnerman on ROI
- When CIOs congregate, there is often talk about aligning IT with the business. ROI is one important method for measuring the benefit that IT returns back to a business organization. Unfortunately, the ROI concept is often misunderstood and wrongly applied. To help sort through ROI, I spoke with Mike Gonnerman,...
- Tags: Interview
- Blog posts 2006-07-07
- INTERVIEW: Lydia Segal on Government Waste and Corruption
- Some of the most dramatic examples of IT-related waste can be seen in public sector projects. To get a handle on why government projects are so problematic, I spoke with Lydia Segal, one of the nations foremost experts on waste and corruption in public schools. I asked Lydia to explain...
- Tags: Interview, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-05-26
- INTERVIEW: Karen Lojeski on Virtual Distance
- Ever get the feeling that your project isnt running well but you cant seem to put your finger on the cause? That vague feeling of misunderstanding is often difficult to quantify, define, and diagnose. Nonetheless, misunderstandings and ambiguous communication are important issues that can drive even well-run projects into failure.Karen...
- Tags: Interview
- Blog posts 2006-05-17
- INTERVIEW: Barry J. Brunetto on Taming a Wild Vendor
- Usually, the Deck Chairs blog describes horror stories of waste, hubris, and failure. But not this time! Today the story is about taking control and turning vendor-supplied failure into success. Todays interview is with Barry Brunetto, Vice President of Information Systems for global manufacturing company, Blount Inc. I first read...
- Tags: Interview, CIO issues
- Blog posts 2006-05-10
Additional Resources
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- I listened to the Black Hat webcast today to grab as much info as I could on this subject. The biggest thing that I heard from the whole talk is that the patch fixes things to a reasonable point, but that long-term, there will have to be more work...
- Tags: CERT, DNS Server, Server, Kaminsky, Dan, Patches, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Qualcomm, Nokia deal ends long legal battle
- Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. NEW YORK--Qualcomm and Nokia late on Wednesday settled a 3-year, three-continent legal battle over patent licenses and royalties for the next 15 years. ...
- Tags: Patent, Nokia Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Reuters, Nokia, Qhalcom, patents, legal, cellphones
- News items 2008-07-24
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?
- Do college degrees get you anywhere?Just another thought...In the sector of work I'm in, I think IT is losing it's "elite" status as a job. With basic IT skills being aquirable with just a few certifications it is becoming less elite and more like a tradeskill not unlike an...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, Benefits, Development tools, salary, job, IT IS, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position
- Several days after blogging about a research conduced by n.runs AG that managed to discover approximately 800 vulnerabilities in antivirus products, McAfee issued a statement basically debunking the number of vulnerabilities found, and providing its own account into the number of vulnerabilities affecting its own products : "A recent...
- Tags: Software, McAfee Inc., Antivirus, Vulnerability, Vendor, Flaw, N.Runs, Dancho, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose
- The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...
- Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Apache's open source governance model
- Apache's open source governance modelI give Murph a 10 on this onentMike Cox couldn't beat this one...NTIIS dominates the market, of courseThough Apache has almost half the web servers in use, the more important number is the Fortune 1000 result. There Microsoft has 55% vs Apache's 25%, with Microsoft...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
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