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What Went Wrong? Unsuccessful Information Technology Projects

What Went Wrong? Unsuccessful Information Technology Projects

| July 12, 2011

In this seven page pdf, Brenda Whittaker details how projects fail or are never completed, reasons behind poor management and processes, and industry-wide understanding of what project failure is. Using survey results and rigid analysis, Whittaker shows how poor management systems are one of the roots which hinder project success.

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News Feed: Minimal IT: Spend Less, Get More (From Toolbox.com)

| July 12, 2011

You can only make order-of-magnitude savings in IT costs by reducing demand for IT. You need to focus less on what changes are required and how they will be carried out…Read More

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News Feed: New Medical Coding System Taxes Hospital IT Resources (From Computerworld)

| July 1, 2011

Everybody’s started, but a large percentage of hospitals are in the heavy analysis stage or they’re just starting,” said Casey Corcoran, vice president commercial solutions for healthcare at General Dynamics Information Technology, a vendor offering …Read More

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Dashboards – Who Uses Them?

Dashboards – Who Uses Them?

| June 14, 2011

This article on ComputerWeekly discusses what, at a minimum, managers should look for in a COTS solution which is to replace ‘Management by Walking About”, as well as the question of transparent, real-time visibility.

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News Feed: Social Networking Meets Agile Development (From IT Business Edge)

| June 13, 2011

The simple fact of the matter is that most existing project management systems were never really designed to handle that much iteration. Against that backdrop it’s interesting to ponder a new approach to project management for application development … Read More

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