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		<title><![CDATA[Transparent Failure]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=312]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:26:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA["Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success"]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=274]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I blogged about a rather uninspired article from Baseline Magazine, which described ten IT project pitfalls. In contrast, today Im 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:09:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Avoiding IT Project Failure]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=255]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:30:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/vendor+relationships.html"><![CDATA[Vendor relationships]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Project Ocean Lives!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=250]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:18:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+failures.html"><![CDATA[Project failures]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Implementation Success!]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=239]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is unusual. New Age Electronics has promoted Sam Changizi, its Director of Information Technology, to the position of CIO. The reason:&ldquo;Under Sam&rsquo;s leadership we&rsquo;ve put ERP solutions in place that have given us a solid &lsquo;end-to-end&rsquo; offering, which allows us to create a suite of high value-added, customer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:07:24 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ten Steps from Doom]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=236]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ComputerWorld offers a ten-point prescription for rescuing a failed project. From the article:Denial can also come into play. You dont want to admit it, so you dont go into the stage of reassessing the project, says Dan Demeter, CIO at Los Angeles-based Korn/Ferry International.Its often up to the project sponsor...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:22:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+management.html"><![CDATA[Project management]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shuttle of Death (and Rebirth)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=225]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:11:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Good Advice]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=197]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
		<s:doctype><![CDATA[Blog posts]]></s:doctype>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:44:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Seeds of Success]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=196]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:11:06 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Running, Running, Running]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=187]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This post may appear to be off-topic, but actually its 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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:52:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Success Factors]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=183]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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 cant be." Thats why its nice to see someone thinking about the conditions that result in software implementation success. An odd concept I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:56:32 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/project+success.html"><![CDATA[Project success]]></category>
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