What I've Learned About Being A Good Project Manager
Bob Pate, Network Operations Manager at New Orleans-based law firm McGlinchey Stafford, and Joe Moore, Applications Support Manager reflect on ways to make projects runs well, and how to best keep the user base informed, and productive.
ECM: Tips for Managing Change Effectively
While researching enterprise content management (ECM), you've probably read some discouraging statistics about IT project failures, ranging anywhere from 30% to 50%. Although there are numerous reasons for project failure, change management is one of the root causes.
Meet 'The Fixer' for Troubled IT Projects
Consultant Jason Coyne shows up at your IT project for one reason: To cure it or kill it. In this Q&A with CIO.com, Coyne explains why he's one part doctor, one part marriage counselor, and how he helps IT teams at odds with a vendor or integrator recover from near disaster.
Project Management: IT, Business Relationships Shape Success
Inter-personal relationships between IT and business partners play a critical--yet often overlooked--role in the execution of projects. Agile development methodologies such as Scrum can bring IT and business partners together and help improve project success rates.
Survey reveals hidden price of technology failures
A new study has revealed the hidden costs of technology failures with 25 percent of contact center projects suffering cost overruns and delays, not helped by the chronic lack of testing.
Esther Schindler
If the comments are ugly, the code is ugly
claird
SVG a graphics format for 21st century
pasmith
Take Chrome OS for a test spin
Sandra Henry-Stocker
Solaris Tip: Have Your Files Changed Since Installation?
jfruh
Android fragments vs. the iPhone monolith
mikelgan
What Gizmodo missed about the Pro WX Wireless USB disk drive
Where Google Chrome security fails: the password
I heard mention that the Chrome OS will have some sort of encryption available a la bitlocker. If it's possible to encrypt personal data using another password or key, then it may have potential for very secure data.... And Ubuntu has an 'encrypt home directory' option, perhaps google should follow suit.
- Dann
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