project failures
RSS project failuresEstablishing the Requirements Baseline
White Paper Did you know that problems with Requirements have been shown to contribute to as much as 25% of project failures? In this On Demand Web Seminar, Global Knowledge course director and instructor Jim... [30 Sep 2008]
Legal Eye: Who's to blame for data loss?
Comment In 2007 an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into the loss of child benefit records by HMRC revealed failures in institutional practices and procedures concerning the handling of personal... [17 Sep 2008]
Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Comment Furthermore, research shows a strong correlation between the consideration of resiliency early in a project and reduced software failures. But there is no need for that inertia - there are a number of... [12 Aug 2008]
Cougaar: A Scalable, Distributed Multi-Agent Architecture
White Paper However, widespread adoption by industry and government has been blocked in part by concerns about scalability and survivability, especially in unpredictable environments of attacks and system failures. [04 Aug 2008]
Ensuring Code Quality in Multi-threaded Applications
White Paper To avoid catastrophic failures in multi-threaded applications, software development organizations must understand how to identify and eliminate these deadly problems early in the application development lifecycle. [09 Jul 2008]
Legacy Migration to Microsoft .NET
White Paper Attempts to recover business logic and construct replacements for these mainframe systems have a long history of cost and schedule overruns, including many complete failures. The Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET compiler... [03 Jul 2008]
The Naked CIO: Madness in the method
Comment All failures in software come down to two things: one, poor planning and, two, a lack of business involvement and commitment. Truth be told, it is the project that determines which is the best... [19 May 2008]
Best Practice With Structured Requirements
White Paper Analysts report that poor requirements management accounts for as much as 71 percent of software project failures. No matter how good a project development environment is, if the... [09 May 2008]
The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects
Comment Project failures suck all the attention away from IT's real contributions. The challenge we face as an industry is that IT has always been evaluated solely on singular project successes... [14 Apr 2008]
Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Cyber Security and Computer Network Diagnostics
White Paper Project develops diagnostic tools for detecting security attacks, infrastructure failures, and other operational aberrations of computer networks. Securing the nation's computer networks from cyber... [10 Apr 2008]
Smooth Transition From SAP 4.7 to ECC 5.0 in Eleven Countries With Automated Regression Testing Resulting in Significant Time and Cost Savings for Getronics
White Paper The framework allowed selective execution of business scenarios and offered capturing and reporting of SAP error messages for better understanding of failures. The client decided to partner with MindTree for this... [28 Mar 2008]
Outsourcing - life after the contract
Comment With the level of failures and the amount of overspending in public sector outsourcing, it seems that advice and guidance on how to manage outsourcing beyond the contract is long overdue. Another is the possibility of... [12 Mar 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News Socitm VP Steve Hopson told silicon.com: "I would describe it as embarrassing, it is not good for the image of the profession which is unfairly criticised because of a few high profile failures. He said such projects... [09 Jan 2008]
UK passports face massive price hike
News He said in the report: "The prospect of ePassport failures contributing to yet further delays at border controls is not an enticing one. But the introduction of ePassports is also praised as a model government IT... [10 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... open source vs MS, budget overruns, the iPhone, patents...
Comment Recent high profile failures have worsened this situation and the introduction of blame culture by the vulnerable will ensure that public IT remains a negative source of progress for quite some time.... [20 Sep 2007]
