Pigs Might Fly in Iowa
According to the Hawk Eye, Iowa has the distinction of joining Nevada and Wisconsin on our list of recent state government project failures. In this case, A.
According to the Hawk Eye, Iowa has the distinction of joining Nevada and Wisconsin on our list of recent state government project failures. In this case, A.
This is off-topic, but too bizarre to avoid mention. From Paul Kedrosky:Being profitable too soon gives investors, rightly or wrongly, an idea of what the margins are on the business, as opposed to what they could be in some perfect world.
Effective immediately, I am moving this blog to ZDnet, at the following address:http://blogs.zdnet.
Problems on many IT project failures can be traced back before the project even started. For example, we’ve all seen poorly-designed projects, that should never have seen the light of day.
Here's a great presentation filled with sage advice for working with industry analysts.
As we move toward the end of another year, I hope your bare trees bloom into successful and delightful experience. This photo shows the cloudy sky ahead of tomorrow's snow blizzard, here in Boston.
During the last two days, I attended the Red Herring East 2007 conference in Boston. Although not directly related to my usual project failures focus, it’s an important event that should be of interest to readers of this blog.
I will be attending the Red Herring East conference in Boston on June 26-28. If any blog readers want to get together, please get in touch.
According to KPMG, lots of IT projects fail as a result of poor management. From the article:KPMG International’s survey of 600 organisations across 22 countries revealed that 86% of respondents reported the loss of up to a quarter of their targeted benefits across their project portfolios.
In a post titled IT project failures, Charlie Bess makes an insightful comment about a subject that should be obvious, but is often overlooked:Since the only reason the project exists is to achieve business benefits. Project managers need to have the business needs as the project objective.