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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...
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- "Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success"
- Yesterday, I blogged about a rather uninspired article from Baseline Magazine, which described ten IT project pitfalls. In contrast, today Im happy to share and excellent list of ten lessons for IT Project success, from CIO Insight magazine:Business processes should set the agenda, not technology.Biting the bullet and migrating off...
- Blog posts 2007-01-03
- Avoiding IT Project Failure
- Writer Andy McCue of Silicon.com offers some helpful comments on avoiding failure on large IT projects: The software itself is now rarely the cause of [huge failures], the root cause of which can more often be linked to the massive business and process change associated with implementing an ERP...
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-10-11
- Implementation Success!
- Well, this is unusual. New Age Electronics has promoted Sam Changizi, its Director of Information Technology, to the position of CIO. The reason:“Under Sam’s leadership we’ve put ERP solutions in place that have given us a solid ‘end-to-end’ offering, which allows us to create a suite of high value-added, customer...
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Ten Steps from Doom
- ComputerWorld offers a ten-point prescription for rescuing a failed project. From the article:Denial can also come into play. You dont want to admit it, so you dont go into the stage of reassessing the project, says Dan Demeter, CIO at Los Angeles-based Korn/Ferry International.Its often up to the project sponsor...
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Good Advice
- In an article at SearchCIO, Linda Tucci describes a massive, $1.9B IT outsourcing deal between DuPont and CSC. The article includes great lessons for any CIO:First was having a capable, dedicated integration team that "was comfortable with ambiguity," [according to Maryann Holloway, DuPont director of global alliance management and IT...
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- Seeds of Success
- Aligned Strategy points to an article on how to hire a CIO. The article includes the following action items to address during the CIO hiring process:A high level IT strategy tied and aligned with the business plan (this is a starting point for the new CIO who will expand, refine...
- Blog posts 2006-04-25
- Running, Running, Running
- This post may appear to be off-topic, but actually its not it has everything to do with success on projects or on anything else for that matter.Today was the running of the 110th Boston Marathon, where huge numbers of people cheer on a stream of 20,000 tired runners almost...
- Blog posts 2006-04-18
- 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...
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
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- Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?
- Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...
- News items 2009-11-23
- ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
- Costs"What is holding back network capacity is politics."What's holding back network capacity is huge costs.Yep, very important to push the ISPs to free up the bits. They would love to continue selling bandwidth through an eyedropper at very high prices. They need a push.Oh, and Microsoft will not like this...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?
- Project name changedIt's Microsoft Live Mess now under Ballmer's leadership.RE: So where's Microsoft's Live Mesh?i hope they don't get rid of or just leave it alone because i really like it. Actually, it works very well.It might be stuck in some pre-release limbo but whats already available to use does...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe
- Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Apple hints at possible pen-based tablet
- Pretty much anything that includes the words "Apple" and "tablet" in the same sentence is going to get the attention of the blognoscenti, but when it comes from Apple itself, people pay attention. Exhibit A is 9 to 5 Mac's piece today about a patent...
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- Open source needs successful champions
- Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- The Real Reason Executive Participation Creates IT Project Success
- Most mid to large scale IT projects, whether they are ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence, or other business transformation initiatives last at least 3 months, and most are 6 months to 2 years or more depending on the size, scale, and scope of the company and IT effort. Combine this with...
- White papers 2009-10-28
- 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. Â 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. Â I'm...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Testers to get Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 this week; final by March 2010
- Side-by-side installationYou said "Also unlike its predecessors, .Net 4 can be installed side-by-side with the previously released .Net 3.5"Notwithstanding the fact that .Net 4's predecessors actually was .Net 3.5, haven't all previous versions of .Net featured side-by-side installation?translations....[i]Microsoft is touting .Net 4 as being 81 percent smaller than its predecessors,...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
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