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- Fighting IT failure with ethnographic research [podcast]
- Fighting IT failure with ethnographic research [podcast]Awesome article...Lately this column started to report really original perspectives to IT failure. This is great progress.
- Tags: Podcasts, IT Failure, podcast, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failures
- No crazies: 10 steps to kill IT failuresRe: exit stragegiesI think that, in regards to the first point of making it possible to pull the plug easily, that piece of advice should be given considerable thought before being acted upon. It is a sound, responsible thing to do to...
- Tags: Backups, information technology, backup plan
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Graphing the triple constraints of IT failure
- Graphing the triple constraints of IT failureProblem with triple constraintsThe problem with applying the classic triple constraints to IT projects (and often other engineering-type projects) is that the trades are generally highly non-linear.Resources often differ in productivity by at least an order of magnitude and the productivity of resources is...
- Tags: information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- Twitter: An IT failures management perspective
- Twitter: An IT failures management perspectiveGetting to Unknown Startup to Popular Service ProviderTwitter's predicament is the story of every startup --- demonstrate the concept of the service is viable, which enables one to raise money to become a "real" company. As with all software startups (at least since the 80s),...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2008-05-26
- 5 ways to prevent IT failure
- 5 ways to prevent IT failureIt's not governance itself...It's when governance (err...a "governance model") is a major piece or somehow viewed as a significant deliverable.I'll also point out that consistency across the portfolio is not necessarily a good thing. Many corporations consist of a large number of diverse businesses....
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-24
- 10 reasons for IT failure
- 10 reasons for IT failureThe number one reason...I still say the number one reason for failure is the mind set that in some magical way IT project management is different than other diciplines. (Engineering projects as an example.)One of the short comings I see in most curriculum for computer...
- Tags: Strategy, Project management, information technology, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Government turns to SaaS to salvage IT failures
- Government turns to SaaS to salvage IT failuresThey're also not very good...at following pesky laws as they relate to IT. Maybe SaaS will help them figure out that they aren't allowed to conduct the nations business using private email accounts instead of the official ones which are mandated to...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Strategy, information technology, software-as-a-service, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- Data breaches: 2007 IT failure superstar
- Data breaches: 2007 IT failure superstarDATA BREACHES ARE HERE TO STAYIntersting, one of today's top news items put out by the AP, is "Data Breaches Hit Record in 2007." As I said before, the personal data of employees and the public has *value* only to that person unless a company's...
- Tags: embarrassment, Data Breaches, IT failure superstar, IT Failure, superstar, data breach, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-12-31
- Whole Foods' perfect response to IT failure
- Whole Foods' perfect response to IT failureExcellent - but so few...What a great story, shame that other companies don't "get it" that they can GET MORE customers and KEEP the ones they have buy having great customer service!!!!Ramon Ray, Editor & Technology Evangelist, Smallbiztechnology.com
- Tags: Whole Foods, IT Failure, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-12-29
- 40 IT failures caused by software bugs
- 40 IT failures caused by software bugsDangerous logical bugs in widely used productsA while back the Life Insurance company debited my account twice in the same month luckily I had enough money on the account cover it.A large US supermarket chain debited a large number of customers debit and credit...
- Tags: Programming languages, Databases, information technology, SQL, software
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Dutch tax office IT failure
- Dutch tax office IT failureYou could better sayThat the chaos has been caused by ever changing requirements. Anyways, the Walvis disaster isn't the only one currently at the Dutch government and I'm sure there will be more. Some to watch:- Patientendossier e dossiers in healthcare- More screw ups at the...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Vertical industries, Dutch tax office IT failure, IT Failure
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- UK National Identity Scheme (NIS): "Costly white elephant"
- Chalk up another massive IT problem for Her Majesty's government in the UK. According to InterGovWorld and the Financial Times, the UK has bidding has opened on a controversial multi-billion pound identity card program called the National Identity Scheme NIS.Back in February, the Tories asserted that they would scrap the...
- Tags: Information Technology, U.K., Secretary, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-13
- News to know: Virtual worlds; Green data centers; Black Hat; IT failures
- Notable headlines:Dan Farber: The future of virtual worlds.The third Web wave--two degrees of separation. Denise Howell: AlwaysOn Stanford Summit: lawyers for Google, IBM, and Apple ponder the patent system.Complexity and the greening of the datacenter.Harry Fuller: Green: tech and VC money converge.Michael Krigsman: Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure. Transparent Failure.David...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
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- Did Levi's use failed IT as a 'convenient scapegoat'?
- Several observers have suggested Levi Strauss used IT failure as an excuse to deflect attention away from deeper and more significant financial challenges. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Financial, Implementation, Information Technology, ERP, Levi Strauss, Software Deployment, Francine, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Government, markets and regulation
- Government, markets and regulationJust Another Gov't Program Gone BadFannie Mae was created in the Depression to create liquidity in the mortgage market. Lequidity had been wiped out by the stock market collapse and bank runs.As with all government programs, it just grew and grew and never went away. ...
- Tags: Mortgages, Vertical industries, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, mortgage, government
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear
- 10 things your IT project manager never wants to hear#9 is wrongThe actual principal for #9 is the GFC principal, Good, Fast, Cheap, pick any TWO.In reality, a successful project blends all 3 to get a product with a reasonable level of all.Corollary to #10:"It's just what I asked for,...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Project Manager, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private networkBut who is monitoring the monitor?Gartner's statement not worth quoting. They are the most worthless thing to hit IT.Was Childs the only IT person on staff that knew anything about computers? That's what it sounds like. But this isn't that hard to believe. Most IT...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Most IT department, private network, network, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Ballmer does Windows; Johnson joins Juniper
- Update: Microsoft had its annual management shakeup--these things tend to happen at the end of the fiscal year--and Kevin Johnson is leaving as head of the company's platform and services division. As a result, Johnson's unit is split into two--Windows and online services--and CEO Steve Ballmer becomes the primary advocate...
- Tags: Juniper Networks Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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