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DWP cuts £50m off major tech projects
News The nine projects were included in both responses, which listed the department's major IT projects, including current estimated cost and finish date. The nine projects now have a total estimated cost of £1.56bn, £50m less than the £1.61bn estimated...
[November 24, 2008, 13:56]
A Major Food Market and Supplier of Dairy Products Wanted a Project Management Methodology to Manage Their Non-SAP Software Development Projects From Within the SAP Environment
White Papers The company needed one single methodology for managing both SAP and non-SAP development projects. The company deployed an IT Project Book that provides a set of templates to incorporate the best practices of SAP's ASAP methodology and the PMBOK.
[November 6, 2007, 0:00]
MoD wastes £30m on failed IT projects
News Already under fire from its own accounts department for scrapping 25 major IT projects, the National Audit Office reveals today that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has wasted nearly £30m on two IT projects.
[January 19, 2000, 16:06]
Open source service takes off
News Sourceforge.net coordinates more than 13,000 development projects from small-scale non-commercial schemes to major projects including the creation of popular programming languages like Tcl and Python to major components of the Linux operating...
[January 22, 2001, 13:31]
Open source projects 'need more customer focus'
Talkback I use a Linux desktop for day-to-day work, the Windows machine is still there for certain tasks that require it, so I do use a lot of OOS software and I have done many major corporate development projects over the years.
[June 3, 2005, 11:26]
Government turns to industry for IT advice
News It will submit its recommendations to the Cabinet Office Major IT Projects review team. This reflects our joint determination to improve the development and management of our major IT projects," he said.
[January 19, 2000, 15:53]
Gov't appoints tech tsar to cut IT costs
News Martin Read, former chief executive of IT outsourcer Logica, will help achieve "significant savings" and address the "serious problems" that chief secretary to the Treasury, Yvette Cooper, claimed often blight major IT projects.
[June 24, 2008, 8:57]
Open-source projects at risk from repository flaw
News The really big projects usually use CVS.servers just as a distribution channel," Esser stated in an email interview, noting that the servers used by major developers to hold code are generally accessible only through a secured connection.
[May 20, 2004, 15:50]
Government: we've learned from our IT mistakes
News A major stumbling block for major governmental IT projects has traditionally been staff participation, and Connecting For Health is no different, as demonstrated in the NAO’s report and claims by senior medical staff that they have not been...
[June 16, 2006, 17:20]
Government CIO Council 'must raise its game'
News The government's CIO Council has been told by MPs to "raise its game" and act more like its US counterpart to become a key influence in improving the track record of big public-sector IT projects. The council is tasked with promoting a common...
[June 5, 2007, 12:21]
Tech investment would boost jobs, says LSE
News They argue that this has put technology infrastructure projects at a disadvantage with economists and policymakers. The authors also noted that investments in ICT infrastructure "should not be minimised out of concern that the projects will take...
[April 29, 2009, 16:19]
MTV launches Net startup
News This will include projects like "Web Riot", a music trivia game show debuting 29 November simultaneously on the MTV Web site and on cable. The sites will continue to be mainly advertising-supported, he said, although plans are in the works to earn...
[August 31, 1999, 9:41]
A Year Ago: MTV launches Net startup
News This will include projects like "Web Riot", a music trivia game show debuting 29 November simultaneously on the MTV Web site and on cable. The sites will continue to be mainly advertising-supported, he said, although plans are in the works to earn...
[August 31, 2000, 7:00]
RFID let off the royalties hook
News The companies have been ramping up RFID hardware production as major retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores, Target and Albertsons, launch big RFID projects and place more orders. It's also designed to be less vulnerable to signal interference, as...
[December 17, 2004, 8:10]
Writing the perfect IT management CV
News Quantify projects and results Don't use paragraph style writing to describe your projects, tasks, and duties. If you're a high-tech consultant, you may have a lot of smaller projects and clients. If you list all your experience from all the jobs...
[March 13, 2006, 15:00]
Peter Coffee: Forbodings about Y2K weekend
News Historically, progress reports on major software projects are notoriously optimistic, with "on-schedule" estimates turning almost overnight into major delays or abandonment during what was supposed to be the last 10 percent of an effort.
[December 30, 1999, 6:05]
Next-to-last GPL 3 draft due this week
News And the Free Software Foundation has limited leverage, he added; if the GPL is too far beyond major open source players' desires, they can continue supporting projects only under GPL 2. The current GPL 2 governs the rights and restrictions of many...
[March 27, 2007, 9:14]
EDS boss defends government contract record
News It is a fact that the failures attract the most publicity, he said, adding that "it's a simple fact that all the projects that go well are just not interesting". These projects are very hard," he said.
[January 8, 2007, 14:21]
Eight CV tips for the experienced IT pro
News Quantify projects and results. Don't use paragraph style writing to describe your projects, tasks, and duties. If you're a high-tech consultant, you may have a lot of smaller projects and clients. If you list all your experience from all the jobs...
[May 29, 2002, 11:50]
Open source reshaping the services market
News There are opportunities for newer companies to try to latch onto the success of some of the biggest names in open source projects and gain some brand recognition," said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at RedMonk.
[January 10, 2005, 18:15]
