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RSS project failuresBusiness Alignment - Working With Requirements
White Paper An insufficient understanding of the requirements that are driving the project causes most of these failures. Select Perspective has always emphasized the importance of gaining and maintaining a very... [09 Nov 2009]
Establishing 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... [03 Nov 2009]
Requirements Management and Visual Studio Team System
White Paper Failures to define, communicate, or validate business requirements are the root causes of many software-project delays, overruns, and failures. There is a growing realization in the... [02 Oct 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment With such systemic failures of project management at the heart of local and central government, is it any wonder that IT projects are so frequently haemorrhaging money? Whitehall and the wider public... [17 Aug 2009]
MSDN Webcast: Project "Velocity": An End to End Look (Level 200)
White Paper The result - high performance access to the application objects, with dynamic seamless scalability and high availability that protects against machine failures. Microsoft Codename Project "Velocity" is a... [28 May 2009]
Improving ROI and Success Rate of Your Business Intelligence Project Using an AGILE Iterative and Incremental Approach
White Paper Unfortunately, there are more failures and disappointments than successes. In addition, since the development approach and project management techniques are mostly under the control of the Information... [16 May 2009]
BT Consulting and Systems Integration: Creating Positive News From Government IT
White Paper At a time when government IT projects were two a penny, and the only ones gaining media attention were the notorious failures, the challenge was to turn yet another big local government IT outsourcing deal into something... [16 Apr 2009]
Requirements-Driven Testing: The Clear Solution for Improving Application Quality
White Paper The results of this approach are disastrous: IDC research indicates that 70-80% of project failures stem directly from poor business requirements. Poor business requirements lead directly to poor... [02 Apr 2009]
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. [18 Mar 2009]
Legal Eye: Outsourcing through the credit crunch
Comment There is also a concern that cost-cutting becomes corner-cutting with customers opting for short-term savings only to experience serious project failures further down the line. As the economy heads into... [26 Nov 2008]
Photos: Honda kick starts motorcycle safety tech
Photo Of the latter, the majority of accidents occurred because of perception failures (failing to see the motorcycle) or comprehension failures (not recognising the approaching object as a motorcycle) or... [29 Oct 2008]
Implementing Probes for J2EE Cluster Monitoring
White Paper In production environments, it is necessary to constantly monitor the state of the system to detect failures or performance degradations that may lead to violations of Service Level Agreements. The LeWYS... [22 Oct 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]
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]
