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Australian Cargo

David Jacobsons blog describes a report prepared by Booz Allen Hamilton, analyzing problems in the Australian Integrated Cargo System. The system is intended to track goods coming into Australia by either air or sea. A variety of implementation problems with system resulted in traffic congestion and escalating costs, and the...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-07-17

Medical Emergency

CIO magazine has an article written by Allan Holmes, describing Maines attempt to develop and deploy a web-based system for processing Medicaid claims and payments. The project was started back in 2001, to help the state to modernize its systems and also ensure compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, Implementation, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-04-23

Stating the Obvious?

According to KPMG, lots of IT projects fail as a result of poor management. From the article:KPMG Internationals survey of 600 organisations across 22 countries revealed that 86% of respondents reported the loss of up to a quarter of their targeted benefits across their project portfolios.Nearly half of respondents reported...

Tags: Project management, Project failures

Blog posts 2006-04-19

Success Factors

Here at the Deck Chairs blog, we hear about lots of project flame-outs. Sometimes, the stories are hard to believe, and we say to ourselves, "It just cant be." Thats why its nice to see someone thinking about the conditions that result in software implementation success. An odd concept I...

Tags: Project success, Project management, Project failures

Blog posts 2006-04-13

Let My Bunnies Go

Easter bunnies and candy make me remember Hersheys Halloween Hell. Apparently, Im not alone, since the ERP channel recently wrote about the same topic.With Easter egg hunts, chocolate rabbits, and spring in the air, there couldnt there be a more perfect time to remember our friends at The Hershey Company...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, IT issues

Blog posts 2006-04-11

Poor, Poor FBI

About a year ago, the FBI annouced they had this little problem: the agency built a software system, called the Virtual Case File, that never saw the light of day. You see, the software designers never asked the users what they actually did need. So, the FBI spent $170M developing...

Tags: Project management, Project failures, Government projects

Blog posts 2006-04-07

Additional Resources

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Learning from the weak signals of failure

Sometimes a refusal to listen . . .Sometimes it's a refusal of top level management to listen to lower level employees as well. NASA was notorious for having unsatisfied employees who knew key facts about issues, but ignored them, even if the employee was proactive about trying to contact somebody...

Tags: Team management, weak signal

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Finally! A Three-Cornered Consulting Service for Enterprise 2.0

Its not too often I endorse a new service - in fact, I never have without a lot of due diligence and at least some production history.   So, for the first...and potentially only....time ever, I'm telling you that I'm truly excited about the launch of Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0.  I'm...

Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disaster

LOL! And some said you were covering this up.http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=70257&messageID=1348275&tag=content;col1RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterMy money goes to TMobile, not Microsoft. This should fall 100% on the shoulders of TMobile!RE: Microsoft needs to come clean over Sidekick/Danger disasterWell who-ever is respossible for this stupid act(upgrade without backups? wtf...)...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Storage, Microsoft Corp., Sidekick/Danger disaster, Sidekick/Danger, Microsoft Needs, Hitachi Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

The 'Seven Laws of Projects'

great!Seventh Point is the one always happen.RE: The 'Seven Laws of Projects'Unfortunately very true.A successful project is typically one where someone gets lucky and manages to balance your seven points to an 'optimal' level.Accepting #2 has given us the opportunity to go for more of an agile approach. If you...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Time-to-Market

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion

I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Six types of IT project failure

HRM FailureThe biggest missing category/type is human resource management failure, to include poorly defined work, roles, KSAOCs the human characteristics needed to accomplish work effectively; poorly selected participants as to their KSAOCs; poorly designed/executed incentives could be routine total compensation plans or those specific to the project; poorly designed/executed work...

Tags: Human resource management (HRM), Organizational structure, HRM, IT Project Failure, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

7 fundamentals of IT project success

7 FundamentalsI agree that most of the failures are not because of technical issues. Project managers often focus on the mechanics of managing the activities. There needs to be a focus on business value. This can only come from the business.Adding to the Stakeholder involvement item you...

Tags: Strategy, IT Solutions, Project Leadership, information technology, IT Project Success

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors

GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...

Tags: Content management, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise software, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), dirty trick, enterprise vendor, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

The taboo of failure

Google plans for failureI read sometime back about google's strategy to handle hardware failure. Instead of focussing on building expensive unbreakable hardware, they assume it a given and build it into the software to handle hardware failures. So the concept is gaining ground.http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/07/13/built-to-fail-how-companies-like-google-ideo-and-37signals-build-failure-tolerant-systems-for-anything/Great managers understand it.I once worked for a...

Tags: Strategy, great manager, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Cisco's Brave New World

An intriguing and very well written article in this week's Economist documents Cisco CEO John Chamber's ambitious plans to conquer 30 new areas of business: ...From “virtual health care” to “cloud computing” and “safety and security” to “routers in space”, the company is tackling more than 30...

Tags: Information Technology, Brave New World, Cisco Systems Inc., Chambers, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-30

Strategic Thinking before Operational Actions: The Enterprise 2.0 Tool Cargo Cult Problem

Three posts about 'failure' in the 'Enterprise 2.0' space in the last few days from Sameer Patel ('Five ways to avoid Enterprise 2.0 failure' guest blogging on Michael Krigmans' 'IT Failure blog here on ZD Net), Dion Hinchcliffe (14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail) and now Dennis Howlett (Enterprise...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Strategic Thinking, Dennis, Morten Hansen, Morten, Superstructure, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Is Nokia losing focus by now expanding into the PC market with the Booklet 3G?

Too early to tell, but.....Nokia runs the risk of becoming an "also ran" in a new and unfamiliar market. A better move IMHO would be to come out with a revolutionary Linux powered smartbook at a sub-netbook price. Nobody knows for sure where the mobile convergence is heading, but this...

Tags: Cellular phones, Desktops, Operating systems, PC, Nokia Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-24