INTERVIEW: Barry J. Brunetto on Taming a Wild Vendor
Usually, the Deck Chairs blog describes horror stories of waste, hubris, and failure. But not this time!
Beyond IT Failure
Michael Krigsman is a recognized authority on the causes and prevention of IT failures.
Michael Krigsman
Michael Krigsman, CEO of consulting and research firm Asuret, is an international authority on IT success, social business transformation, and related CIO issues. For more information, visit mkrigsman.com.
Latest Posts
Bigger and Bigger Secrets
This is a follow-up to an earlier post about a $300M NSA project that will most likely never be used. The original article was written by Siobhan Gorman and published in the Baltimore Sun.
INTERVIEW: Matthew Leitch on Denial and Risk
Big projects typically generate hundreds of pages of status reports—yet somehow it’s always a surprise when the project team ‘discovers’ that failure is right around the corner.In fact, says risk management expert Matthew Leitch, denial and information hiding can have deep roots early in the life of a project.
Annoucement: Wednesday Interview Series
Dear Deck Chairs Reader,Starting today, we will be initiaiting a series of weekly interviews with experts who are working in domains related to this blog. The experts will include CIO’s, risk mangement experts, university professors, and others.
Big Secrets or Big Lies?
Thanks to TechDirt for pointing this one out. The Baltimore Sun reports a $300M software screw-up at the National Security Agency.
In an Emergency...
The Dashboard Spy offers a post describing emergency management information software. I researched these issues in-depth several years ago (conducted lots of interviews with government and industry leaders), to learn about emergency management processes and software.
The Early Bird...
Timothy Johnson describes how he was fired for writing truthful project management reports. Well, the reports didn’t make the project manager look very good, so I imagine it must have been a wee bit awkward for all concerned.
Separation Anxiety
An Infoworld article by Dan Tynan describes what can happen when the IT vendor who once loved you now hates you. From the article:…consider this cautionary tale of a small biotech firm in the Rocky Mountains that decided to dump its IT consultant.
Good Advice
In an article at SearchCIO, Linda Tucci describes a massive, $1.9B IT outsourcing deal between DuPont and CSC.