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.
Microsoft pulls covers off Project 2010
Calling it the "most significant" upgrade in a decade, Microsoft Corp. today revealed details for its project management application, Project 2010.
Seven Questions to Ask Before Building an IT Strategy
Even as modern economic activities rely heavily on sound IT strategies, many organizations fail to take advantage of the many opportunities that technology can provide. For instance, some types of can improve processes and profit margins.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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