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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
- Can savior-elect resurrect General Motors?
- This General Motors saga has it all: pathos and bathos, tragedy and comeuppance, hubris and ignorance, innocence and foolhardiness. Oh, and it could be the trigger to an even nastier American economy than the one we already expect for next year. Even back in January some GM execs...
- Tags: General Motors Corp., Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- SAP's Apotheker: 'Happy John Wookey joined us'; Business hasn't gotten worse
- SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker said Friday that John Wookey, a former Oracle executive, is "a great software man" who will help the enterprise software giant push its software as a service meets on-premise applications strategy. Separately, Apotheker noted that business hasn't gotten worse from the outlook the company gave on...
- Tags: SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Investment, Finance, Financial Services, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Metrics of open source success
- There is such a thing as enough money. And there are other drives, equally vital, that open source can satisfy. Some are drives felt keenly by people with lots of money, while with others money is irrelevant. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Money, Matt Asay, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Bay Area mayors want to electrify their commuters
- The three major cities in the San Francisco Bay Area want to lead the nation in electric autos. Today they took another big step in that direction. The mayors of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland listed in order of population announced a plan to make battery-powered cars...
- Tags: San Jose, Battery, Bay Area, Better Place, Coulomb Technologies, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks
- Actuate 10 and the Eclipse-based Open Source BIRT framework allows you to build rich reporting applications for your enterprise. Click on the photo to watch a video of the software in action. The title got your attention, didn't it? ...
- Tags: Reporting Tool, Actuate Corp., Open Source BIRT, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- 5 reasons to kill IT projects
- A survey of IT experts revealed 43 percent of their organizations had recently killed an IT project. Here's the list of reasons, with commentary. by Michael Krigsman
- Tags: Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman, Project, CIO
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- News to know: Storm; Holiday gift guide;Lenovo malware; Dell
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Josh Taylor: Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm Gallery: Up close and personal: The BlackBerry Storm ZDNet's 2008 Holiday Gift Guide: Top...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Dell Computer Corp., Yahoo! Inc., T-Mobile, Malware, RIM BlackBerry, VUDU, Handhelds, Home Entertainment, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Photos: 2010 Ford Mustang
- Ford brings an updated Mustang to the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show. The 2010 Mustang builds on the success of Ford's retro-looking 2005 Mustang, revising that car with new body styling, interior materials, and cabin electronics. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Ford Motor Co., CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-11-19
- Hands On: The BlackBerry Storm
- First off, a warning: Be very skeptical of any review you read in the next 24 to 48 hours that proclaims to be the definitive word on the Blackberry Storm. While clearly I have my own early impressions, the Storm is so different than any other smartphone...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Phone, Screen, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Customer, Video, RIM BlackBerry, Plan, Blackberry Storm, E-mail, Handhelds, Keyboards, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Josh Taylor
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
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