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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
- Project Ocean Lives!
- Back in August, I blogged about Project Ocean, a major implementation meltdown on a City of Philadelphia project. The project was suspended amid allegations of incompetence, politics, and corruption. According to ComputerWorld, the project is now restarting: Philadelphia officials announced [September...
- Tags: Project success, Project failures, Government projects
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Shuttle of Death (and Rebirth)
- Most of the project failures described in this blog are BIG: huge projects, global system integrators, and so on. This case study shows that even the smallest companies are not immune to software stupidity, with negative impact on customers. However, this story is unusual in one important regard: the offending...
- Tags: Project success, Project failures
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- 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
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- CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over
- Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you have to do is keep your infrastructure humming and solve the 25 most contentious business-technology issues by the first half...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Open source protectionism?
- I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...
- Tags: Open Source, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- EU group demos quantum cryptography
- Under the auspices of the European Union, the world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, Silicon.com reports. It's the product of four years of work by 41 organizations from 12 countries, overseen by the SECOQC (Development of a Global Network for Secure Communication Based on...
- Tags: Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cable, Network Technology, Digital Security, Security, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Enterprise web 2.0 costs set to plunge
- Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet, according to a new report from Forrester. Good news for credit crunch squeezed CIOs: the price of enterprise web 2.0 tools is set to plummet. According to a new...
- Tags: Software, Web, CIO, Tool, Web 2.0, Productivity, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Marketing, Management, Forrester, budget, Jo Best, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-13
- Repairing genetic mutations with lasers?
- German researchers at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel CAU think they've proved that genetic information can be controlled by light. The group studied the interaction between the four DNA bases -- adenine A, cytosine C, guanine G, and thymine T -- by using femtosecond time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. The researchers think that...
- Tags: DNA, Laser, CAU, Adenine Femtosecond, Biotechnology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Surviving the recession with Free Linux distributions (Part 1)
- Times are tough. You're a computer geek and you need to feed your PC with the latest and greatest applications. What's a frugal nerd to do? A group of industry peers was recently asked by a colleague the following question: "If an SMB...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Distribution, Recession, Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Debian, Times, LTS, LTS Version, Versions, Debian Support Cycle, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Text messages save elephants' lives, villagers' crops
- As elephants' habitat is destroyed, the great beasts frequently leave their protected reserves, barging into villages and eventually are killed by rangers. But in Kenya, there is a better way: text messaging. A group called Save the Elephants has outfitted a huge bull elephant named Kimani with...
- Tags: Elephant, GPS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Hardware, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Tim Bray on surviving the tough times
- Image via WikipediaTim Bray, director of web technologies at Sun Microsystems gave what I believe to be the most practical advice I've heard so far for those in startups looking forward. Speaking at FOWA, Tim's blunt view is that we are headed for tough times but that should not blind...
- Tags: Personal Technology, Tim Bray, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Hot rumor: Apple developing LCD HDTV with built-in networking, Apple TV?
- Just in case you wanted a new Apple rumor that didn't involve updated MacBooks and building laptops out of aluminum bricks, here's an inevitable-seeming one from tech guru Jason Calacanis, who tells our sister site CNET UK that Apple is planning an LCD-based HDTV that would sport built-in networking and...
- Tags: Network, built-In, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, LCD, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Wireless soil sensors to help farmers
- A research team at Iowa State University ISU is developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming while minimizing environmental impacts. ISU says that 'the prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground.' According...
- Tags: Iowa State University, Sensor, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- 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...
- Tags: IT Project, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Will you forget about Android?
- Chris O'Brien from the Silicon Valley Mercury News has an interesting article on why he thinks we will soon forget about Android. When you look at Android up against iPhone, you have to agree that it's going to be a an uphill battle. But if anyone can do...
- Tags: Google Inc., Android, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Nine steps to IT post-mortem excellence
- Most IT project post-mortems are exercises in finger-pointing and assigning blame. Here are nine steps to make them useful. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Project, Team, Information Technology, Post-mortems, Team Management, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
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