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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
- "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...
- Tags: Project success
- 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...
- Tags: Vendor relationships, Project success
- 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...
- Tags: Project success, Project failures, Government projects
- 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...
- Tags: Project success, CIO issues
- 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...
- Tags: Project success, Project management
- 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...
- Tags: Project success, Project failures
- 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...
- Tags: Project success
- 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...
- Tags: Project success, CIO issues
- 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...
- Tags: Project success
- 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...
- Tags: Project success, Project management, Project failures
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
Additional Resources
- 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...
- Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- 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
- 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...
- Tags: Socialtext, Enterprise 2.0, Framework, Pragmatic Enterprise 2.0, Michael Krigsman, Ross, Blogging, Strategy, Internet, Management, Paul Greenberg
- 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,...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft .NET
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Gartner: You want cloud? You need SOA first
- Gartner still peddling that snake oil? You gotta be kidding. Gartner still peddling the SOA snake oil? ROFL! In all my years of IT I've never seen a SOA project deliver anything useful. And certainly not on budget. With all the billions thrown at...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, SOA, Gartner Inc., Gartner Still
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- Why the big Android bandwagon?
- One minor nit to pickTo succeed, however, it will have to deliver products as good or better than the iPhone, at the same or less cost, with just as many apps.It needs just as many good apps. It doesn't need all the flashlights or fart apps or things like that....
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Smart phones, Branding, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- On the future of Open Source thought leadership
- It's time we recognized the advantages of bothIMHO it's time to recognize the advantages in both, and not to do silly things like pretend that somehow software is a moral agent.I can certainly see the advantage of software being open source. It helps the educational community, and gives tools to...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Free Software, leadership, Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, open source, proprietary software, Microsoft Corp., hardware, software
- Discussion threads 2009-10-08
- TimeGuard Network 3.0.0.3 (Windows)
- TimeGuard is smart and friendly time tracking software. TimeGuard is active and will not wait passively for user's input. It will help your business to track time and expenses, taking much of the burden off user's shoulders. TimeGuard gives an accurate view of how time was spent on projects and...
- Tags: Project, Terilyon Software, TimeGuard, E-mail, Free Trade, Microsoft Windows, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Online Communications, Finance, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2009-10-08
- Open source is sold and FOSS is not
- I'm confusedAre you advocating breaking the GPL license by selling GPL based products by 'open source' companies?We know NT Selling software is not a violation of the GPLSelling softare is not a violation of the GPL. Not in any way, shape or form. In the words of the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, F/OSS, GPL, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-10-02
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