fail in comment and analysis
The Brampton Factor: Analysts fail on open source
Comment Why big government IT projects fail For open source software to achieve its full potential, people's perceptions must change. Yet how can that happen when open source is so woefully neglected by analysts, asks Martin... [18 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Why does technology fail?
Comment Another factor: When is your car most likely to fail? In other words, if we buy 10 items at once, there is a pretty good chance that two or more will fail at a similar time. How come technology seems to... [21 Jan 2005]
Why so many public sector IT projects fail
Comment One of the reasons public sector IT projects fail is because public sector culture leads to the abdication of responsibility, especially with large projects, according to Paul Renucci, MD of Damavo UK, a... [14 Mar 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Is web 2.0 doomed to fail?
Comment And I can even see the 'long tail' activity of the thousands of contributors that will undoubtedly fail, or be consigned to the ranks of the mediocre and irrelevant, may prove to be a useful training and testing ground. [23 Apr 2007]
The Bloor Perspective: Why Win2000 could fail; why the skills shortage is a myth; and the rise of e-procurement
Comment Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have been out on the road looking for commitments to Windows 2000 from top companies. Gates was sighted in New York last Thursday - his 44th birthday. His target was Chase Manhattan Bank, where he is believed... [08 Nov 1999]
What if... mobile operators fail the content challenge?
Comment How should operators and developers be offering content over mobile? Dale Vile hypothesises. Every mobile operator has a forum or programme for wireless developers, the aim of which is to provide a framework within which good ideas and... [06 Nov 2002]
The Brampton Factor: Why big government IT projects fail
Comment A £500m prisoner-tracking project failure barely causes a ripple these days. We're so hardened to government IT problems we no longer see the underlying causes, says Martin Brampton. I've been feeling sorry for the government. [22 Jan 2008]
The shame of a nation: MPs fail email test
Comment Some cynics dismissed this as mere fashion-following that Blair would never follow through. And they were right. The results of our email survey of MPs shows that only 38 per cent were capable of answering a simple email query from a... [20 May 2001]
Why do public sector projects fail?
Comment The last decade has been littered with huge public sector IT flops. Paul Bentham goes through the hows and whys of those failures and calls on public sector technology teams to make the necessary strategic changes that should ensure... [24 Jul 2007]
Brunel University's Business Class: IT projects should be allowed to fail
Comment Professor Robert Macredie and Dr Mark Lycett, leaders of the Fluid Business research project at Brunel University, argue that project failure should be viewed more often than not as a success Many IT projects exist to create a link... [23 Aug 2004]
Are your systems falling down on resiliency?
Comment Few outside the IT department realise just how much effort goes into making sure systems don't fail. The IT department is tasked with the operational management of software applications but it is the business that... [12 Aug 2008]
Opinion: The importance of failure
Comment For IT departments to be innovative and creative, they must be allowed to fail, says the Dorchester Hotel's Luke Mellors. They run over budget or they fail to deliver value back to the business and, in... [01 Feb 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Talk to the user
Comment Quocirca research shows end users are still rarely involved in any sort of strategic IT decision making, and many big IT projects in the public sector fail to deliver the benefits sought. Because the people creating the... [25 Aug 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Why certifying IT workers won't help
Comment But the truth, says Martin Brampton, is that a lack of certificates isn't the reason projects fail. So why do projects fail? The Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society tell us that... [26 Apr 2004]
Virus writing at University: Could we, would we, should we?
Comment Forgive the reference to a Hollywood blockbuster, but that line neatly sums up technology's unswerving ability to fail to see beyond theory, feasibility and possibility to the wider issues which exist within society. [28 May 2003]
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