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- Tackle complex reengineering projects -- one bite at a time
- Developers are rarely charged with creating entirely new "Greenfield" systems. IT projects are typically mired in the accumulated complexities of pre-existing systems. This sample chapter from Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield looks at the problems that evolving legacy environments pose and offers an approach for...
- Book chapters 2008-06-03
- Your IT project is toast when...
- Your IT project is toast when...IT projects fail for one reason...poor IT personnel. Be it in house or outsourced.You missed two big ones.1.) Something better came along or a vendor made a product meeting the requirements.2.) The project failed to meet expectations and promiced returns on schedule. ...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Three+risk+categories+that+explain+IT+failure
- Three+risk+categories+that+explain+IT+failureWow...I'll bet they spent millions studying this problem to conclude that the biggest risk categories for IT projects are all the things that go into IT projects. Simply amazing. These people must all have MBAs.Why do some folks thing IT is somehow different?I am constantly amazed that anyone...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'
- NakedIT: JP Rangaswami says, 'Don't call them IT projects'Most tangible elementProjects, especially challenging ones, tend to focus on their most tangible and short-term measurable aspects. Budgets and schedules are tangible. Whether a server is in place or not is tangible. Whether an application is accessible to the...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Brief%3A+4
- Brief%3A+4Care to fix the page?Anyone digging down past the excerpts on the left side to read a comment would expect Chinese characters.Failing up a project directorYou seem to have mixed guidance about IT projects. They cost money and time and usually fail.But Board members should take them very seriously...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
- Survey: A third of IT projects exceed budget
- Survey: A third of IT projects exceed budgetBogus NumbersLet me tell you how it works. IT workers have project work and operations or other work. So the number they report on project work can and is a matter of negotiation. The amount of fudging is a function of how much...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-13
- 10 ways implementation teams destroy IT projects
- 10 ways implementation teams destroy IT projectsAnd this is news :)?This is why Scott Adams became so successful. He simply chronicles what all of us live everyday.He must work where I do...+1 to the comment above regarding Scott Adams. Humans work everywhere, so these types of issues that...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- Self-Contradictory Government IT Failure Report
- The Office of Management and Budget OMB reports that the number of federal government high-risk IT projects has declined since the start of this year. This information is presented in two reports: the quarterly project High Risk List and the Management Watch List. These materials can be found here.The current...
- Blog posts 2007-08-09
- Wisconsin Fights Failure
- The Wisconsin state legislature has created a special group to study IT project cost overruns, called The Speaker's Task Force on Failed Information Technology Projects. So far, they have scheduled monthly meetings running through August. If these meetings stop in August, then little will be accomplished. On the other...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Does ROI really bring ROI?
- Does ROI really bring ROI?Really Obvious Inc.*Management by algorithm is the least effective way to run a company*. I would swap effective for efficient – provided that the people in post know what they are doing.*As an IT executive, you have to manage the ROI hot-button metric as simply one...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-23
- US companies to delay IT projects; economic factors at play, cites IDC
- US companies to delay IT projects; economic factors at play, cites IDCDon't like the interest rates now???Just wait until our buddy Greenspan gets done.Oil prices are going to drive up inflation. This guy can't STAND any sort of inflation, so he must immediately punish consumers by hiking up interest...
- Discussion threads 2005-04-25
- 95ò0of IT projects delivered late, study finds
- 95ò0of IT projects delivered late, study findsDepartments, not projects!The research cited in the article states that 95% of IT departments deliver late sometimes. It does not state that 95% of projects are late. The headline is wrong.thanksI snagged the title from Slashdot, need to be more careful.Chris
- Discussion threads 2005-04-01
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- 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:...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops
- Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awardsRE:Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards"their motivation is to take money out of the system,..."is this a good thing?Hmmm...kinda wrong..."...their motivation is to take money out of the system, to take down the old Microsoft monopoly. They lack compelling business models of their own."If the only biz...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards
- The big winner? Open Office. It swept the awards for top project, top enterprise project, and top project in education. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- Xen and KVM, like other virtualization tools, can be used as part of a comprehensive datacenter architecture. One of the most important value propositions offered by both of these tools is low initial cost (read "free"). Depending upon the implementation (Citrix, Red Hat, SUSE, Virtual Iron, Oracle, Sun, Qumranet, etc.)...
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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