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- 5 reasons to kill IT projects
- 5 reasons to kill IT projectsnothing leftthe whole industry is stale and dried outthe computer is already doing everything it canand not very well..nothing to crate but trash......IT deadProblem Starts Way Before the Requirements Process StartsIt was really interesting to see what the five top reasons for killing projects were....
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- Gartner: Office politics kills IT projects
- Gartner: Office politics kills IT projectsGood to remember...That Machiavelli was a republican, not a monarchist. In "The Prince" he described what princes (particularly "new princes" aka usurpers and conquerors) need to do to be effective, not his ideas about good government (if you're going to be a tyrant, be...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Why IT project post-mortems don't matter
- Why IT project post-mortems don't matterGood Article, Bad TitleI agree with your position and your content and suggestions. The title, however, is not reflective of the subject-matter. The article is about improving the post-mortems process, yet I was expecting to see an opinion piece about how they are...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- 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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- TaskTime4 4.6.6 (Mac)
- TaskTime4 provides a straightforward method of tracking time spent on jobs you do for your clients. It can generate personalized invoices which can be emailed, printed, and saved to disk. Other important features include: project status tracking, Address Book integration for adding clients, linking of related resources to projects for...
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- NimbleKit 1.6.1 (Mac)
- NimbleKit is a fast & fun way to develop apps for iPhone and iPod touch. You don't need to know Objective-C or to be an experienced programmer. All you need is to know HTML and JavaScript. NimbleKit will integrate to Xcode and do the rest! Main Features: ...
- Software downloads 2009-11-25
- Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers
- Maybe "law" can become a GDP driverNow that America has seen virtually every domestic industry go down the toilet, maybe it can provide law services to the rest of the world.If this self-righteous lawsuit is any indication, the is no need to fear the loss of American innovation and savvy;...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- myDocuments 2.7.1 (Mac)
- myDocuments is a clear program, crafted with attention to detail, for grouping and finding documents and files. Even with Spotlight and the like it is easy to lose overview of all the documents you need for a project or a client - out of sight out of mind. With myDocuments...
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
- Komodo Edit 5.2.3 (Mac)
- Komodo Edit delivers powerful editing capabilities for dynamic languages including Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl; plus support for browser-side code including JavaScript, CSS, HTML and XML. Background syntax checking and syntax coloring catch errors immediately, while AutoComplete and CallTips guide developers as they code. It is available now on...
- Software downloads 2009-11-24
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