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		<title><![CDATA[Ignoring a Problem Doesn't Make it Go Away]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=168]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An audit of the Massachusetts state crime lab revealed that evidence in 16,000 criminal cases was never analyzed.Denial and information hiding are frequent components of the project failure lifecycle, whether in the crime lab or in the IT world. Eventually, the hidden problems see the light of day, usually after...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 20:36:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW: Paul Dandurand (CEO, PIEmatrix) on Project Failure and IT Governance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=150]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[At the recent Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I was quietly eating essential nutrients cookies and coffee, when Paul Dandurand, founder and CEO of PIEmatrix, introduced himself. Paul&rsquo;s company is developing a process management and governance solution for IT projects, and he&rsquo;s no stranger to this field. Before starting PIEmatrix, Paul co-founded...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:43:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/risk.html"><![CDATA[Risk]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Four Questions for Selecting Mission-Critical Software]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=148]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Evolving Excellence blog has a strongly-worded article against implementing SAP at a particular company with $5M in annual revenue. The argument basically says that a simpler, less expensive, system would work just as well for a business of that relatively small size. While the truth of this perspective is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:15:17 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/vendor+relationships.html"><![CDATA[Vendor relationships]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mid-Market ERP: "Soap Operas of the IT Industry"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=138]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SearchCIO sponsored development of a white paper, called As the World Turns: CIOs and their ERP Dramas registration required. It describes the risks. rewards, and failures of ERP implementations, based on the result of a survey conducted by the author. Check it out: Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems are the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:13:34 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+failures.html"><![CDATA[Project failures]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[5 Common ERP Implementation Pitfalls]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=137]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Big4Guy writes a blog on big software deployments. His posting on Five Common ERP Implementation Pitfalls has the ring of truth for me, so here they are:Pin-pointed clarity as to why we are going in for an ERP. What are the synergies that we expect, how will the new system...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:15:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA["Characteristics of a Troubled Project"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=131]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ESI International has written a white paper, called Saving Troubled Projects registration required, describing their methodology for diagnosing and intervening to save failing IT projects.Here are a few quotes from the white paper:Simply put, &ldquo;troubled&rdquo; means that the project&rsquo;s variance trends of time, cost and scope have exceeded acceptable levels...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:09:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+management.html"><![CDATA[Project management]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Single-Market Madness]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=127]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Prolific blogger Dennis Howlett is one of the founders and Chief Strategist of a new Internet-based service called FreeAgent Central. The company helps contractors, freelancers, consultants, and small businesses keep track of time-based billing, invoicing, taxes, and so on. It seems like a great idea, except for one major oversight:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:40:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lunch with Arn Howitt (When Failure is NOT an Option)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=124]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch yesterday with Arn Howitt and Lydia Segal. Arn teaches at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government, and is Executive Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. He and Dutch Leonard run the Program on Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management at the Kennedy School. These...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:51:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/interview.html"><![CDATA[Interview]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nibbles, Not Bites]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=123]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Hayes makes a strong case for smaller, more transparent IT projects. He says that smaller projects nibbles are more manageable and controllable than the larger big-bang projects bites that weve all come to know and love and also hate. From his article:  Call that the &ldquo;little nibble&rdquo; approach...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:01:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alignment and its Discontents]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=195]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[David Jacobson makes reference to a Harvard Business School excerpt from a book titled Alignment: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Create Corporate Synergies. As David points out, the article says:Following are the eight alignment checkpoints for corporate, business units, and support units of a typical multi-business organization to hit during...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:49:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+strategy.html"><![CDATA[Project strategy]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Virtual Distance Drives Risk]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=186]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[CIO Insight magazine has an article about the way Boeing is building its new 787 aircraft. In short, its an intensely global and collaborative effort, involving design participants in the US, Japan, Russia, and Italy. According to Scott Griffin, Boeing vice president and CIO, "We still do manufacturing, but we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:18:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/risk.html"><![CDATA[Risk]]></category>
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