project plans
RSS project plansFileVision Document Management Helps Access Consulting Go With the Flow From One Cost-Segregation Study to the Next
White Paper Access Consulting handles everything from project management of commercial and residential facilities to cost-segregation and feasibility studies that help small to large companies take advantage of immediate tax write-offs on disposable assets... [18 Jul 2008]
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Using Project 2007 Effectively in the Public Sector (Level 100)
White Paper Using powerful, easy-to-use tools, one can set up the project plans in a timely manner and clearly communicate expectations around scope, time, resources, and costs. Managing the project workload with limited resources is no easy task, but doing... [08 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The cost of implementing the revamped FCO Telecommunications Network (FTN) has ballooned from £180m to £240m, while the Future Firecrest project to upgrade its desktop systems worldwide is expected to cost £26m more than the £332m originally... [07 Jul 2008]
ePassport upgrade scaled back
News Millions had been spent on the Electronic Passport Application (EPA2) project upgrade. The total write-down of EPA2 assets since the project began in 2005 is £10.8m, comprising £5.5m in 2006-07 and £5.3m in 2007-08. [02 Jul 2008]
College classrooms go high-tech
Case Study The new building will bring together four existing campuses and the use of technology has been very much at the forefront of the project. The project was prompted by a poor Ofsted report in 2003, which saw the college set the goal of achieving an... [02 Jul 2008]
Improve Your SOA Project Plans: Strong Governance Principles Ensure a Successful Outcome
White Paper Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has the potential to vastly improve IT's efficiency. But to implement one at an organization, one needs more than just technical know-how: one has to be skilled in management as well. [01 Jul 2008]
Why Serious Architecture Plans Matter for Small Devices
White Paper This paper discusses the reasons why good software architecture is important for any project, big or small. Good architecture not only results in better code, but also keeps customers happy and saves money in the long run. [01 Jul 2008]
Bill Gates on the future, the past and the brilliance of fertilizer…
Comment So, in a sense it's hard for me to project what it's going to be like for me or Microsoft when I'm not here. So, we have the plans in place, and I sat through that last set of reviews but it's a perfect example of something that as just a board... [26 Jun 2008]
Travis Perkins builds its tech future
Case Study The project was prompted by the acquisition of DIY retailer, Wickes. But the builders' merchant soon realised it would be hugely beneficial to roll this project into a more major tech overhaul. I have to say that particular part of the project went... [20 Jun 2008]
Photos: Say hello to Intel's little helpers
Photo This second generation of Intel's Classmate PC is part of an ongoing project to design better and more useful personal computers for school children in developing countries. One project would enable hardware rather than an operating system to... [18 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet
Comment The GCS project was scrapped - with LCH.Clearnet writing off €67.9m in the process - and the outsourcing plans were, and remain, shelved. As a result the IT project portfolio has more than trebled in the past year from 20 to more than 70. [17 Jun 2008]
Android delayed? Google says no
News Android project leader Andy Rubin said last week at the Google I/O conference that phones using the soon-to-be-mostly-open-source software will be "available in the second half of this year". In February, T-Mobile chief executive Hamid Akhavan said... [04 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: Price of panic
Comment Every project comes under review. The worst thing that companies can do is second-guess a project. Hard-working employees have often expended untold effort attempting to deploy a project championed by IT and the business, only for a panic attack by... [03 Jun 2008]
£50m mobile funding to keep police on the beat
News The project is a collaboration of the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Association of Police Authorities and the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA). Forces applied for a share of the funding to the NPIA, detailing training and... [27 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up Either way, the project took the wraps off its new laptop design this week and you can judge the design merits for yourself by checking it out here. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has had its ups and downs since it launched the first... [23 May 2008]
