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- Transparent Failure
- Recently, major hosting provider, 365 Main, suffered a significant outage, which affected a number of high-profile websites.As readers of this blog know, IT-related failures are commonplace. What's less common, however, is transparent and detailed disclosure regarding the failure situation and its causes.365 Main has posted a detailed analysis of the...
- Tags: Project success, Project failures
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Wisconsin's Apologist for IT Failure
- In recent times, Wisconsin has experienced major IT meltdowns, prompting the State Auditor to release a report recommending various IT reforms. Wisconsin's state legislature also appointed a special task force to review failing IT projects, suggesting the state genuinely takes IT failures seriously. I find these steps to be...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Another UK Health Project Dies
- The UK National Health Service is cancelling an IT-related contract due to problems with the vendor. From an article on silicon.com:The move was taken when it became clear that Atos Healthcare - part of IT services company Atos Origin - was not in a position to provide the services to...
- Tags: Project failures
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- SOA: Future Failure and Technobabble Gibberish
- IT-director.com has an editorial stating 90% of SOA projects are failing in a significant manner:The problem is that for every successful SOA implementation, there seems to be ten that are providing few of the desired benefits. Many of these failures are down to poor understanding of the underlying principles of...
- Tags: SOA, Project failures
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- State of Failure in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin seems to be the land of IT project failures. Last April, the state released a report describing broad project failures running through the state government. As a response to so many IT failures, the Wisconsin state legislature formed a special task force to examine the problems. Now, the Wisconsin...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-07-22
- Netsuite: Future Failure?
- Netsuite is a software as a service SaaS vendor offering a variety of business, accounting, and CRM applications over the Internet. Happily for Netsuite, they have filed to go public, as described in this analysis by Jason Wood. Less exciting for Netsuites customers is the news that the company admits...
- Tags: Project failures, IT issues
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- "Every Problem Imaginable"
- Twenty years ago, the Tennessee state government built a 70,000 square-foot data center in a location that now appears to have a few problems. What kind of problems, you ask? Well, heres what Computerworld has to say on the matter:The state located its data center on top of unstable, jiggly...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- 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...
- Tags: Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
Additional Resources
- Project tradition and IT culture [cartoon]
- Picking up on my post about failed IT culture, Oliver Widder has drawn another great Geek and Poke cartoon: Sadly, this cartoon describes the norm in many organizations, where projects are uncontrolled spending machines: defined poorly, executed abysmally, and ultimately headed for inevitable...
- Tags: Information Technology, Cartoon, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Authorizing and clearing transactions
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, describes how they are competing in the global marketplace. He also outlines their data processing strategies and how their technology operations are giving the company an edge. by Administrator
- Tags: Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Moving quickly with tap-and-go technology
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, expresses what innovation means to him in different areas—such as their PayWave technology, which gives users the ability to send and receive money from anywhere. by Administrator
- Tags: Technology, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Handling holiday peak periods
- Michael Dreyer, CIO of Visa, explains how he tests Visa's systems for dealing with high volume times, and how high those peaks can really go. by Administrator
- Tags: Visa Inc., Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- iPhone sales: 10 million yet?
- When it comes to product inventory, there's a clear distinction between what's been manufactured and what's been sold. And sales figures also need to take into consideration other factors, such as returns, exchanges and retail inventory. That's why I'm raising an eyebrow at headlines today that suggest Apple has sold...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Smart Phones, Sales, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- You get what you pay for: Paid contributors drive open source
- What's the difference between a paid contributor to a FOSS project and a volunteer contributor? According to a paper by Evangelia Berdou, quite a bit. Berdou finds that paid developers take up key positions in projects, while volunteers often work on the periphery. In other words -- much of the...
- Tags: Developer, F/OSS, Contributor, Core Contributor, Open Source, Joe Brockmeier
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Discovering Venice with a CINeSPACE device
- There are many existing services to help you to discover a city you don't know, but the EU-funded CINeSPACE project is quite unique. It combines GIS and semantic technology to provide you with an intuitive and interactive way to discover the cultural heritage of a city. The CINeSPACE project combines...
- Tags: Image, GIS, GPS, Handhelds, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Apple manufactures 10M iPhones
- About a month ago creative individuals determined that Apple has sold 8 million iPhones based on collected International Mobile Equipment Identity IMEI numbers. A joint project of AFB and Investor Village's AAPL Sanity board have been collecting iPhone IMEI numbers and recording them on a big Google speadsheet. Based on...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, 3G, Sales, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Improve your failed IT culture
- The underpinnings of IT failure lie in culture, the unspoken rules governing an organization's style and general priorities. Since most organizations pay little attention to project culture, it's not surprising failure rates remain high. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Team, Culture, Information Technology, Risk Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Strategy, Business Security, Business Operations, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu
- October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. And over the weekend, Novell-sponsored Mono project announced the...
- Tags: Mono, Ubuntu, Drupal, October, Linux, OpenOffice, .Net, Open Source, Development Tools, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- A Consumer Electronics Carol
- I recently received a promotional email from a large Internet-based retailer that shall for the moment remain nameless (cough! Amaz-ahem!) As I was considered to be a high-volume "Prime" customer, this online retailer wanted to offer me a 30-day trial of their their premier store-branded consumer...
- Tags: Retail Company, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- News to know: Green PCs, IT; IBM; Nokia; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx Matthew Miller: First impressions of the Nokia N96. Gallery right. Mary Jo...
- Tags: Steve Jobs, Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., PC, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, IBM Corp., Podcasts, Linux, Internet, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
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