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Keep Projects On Track With This Scope Change Request Log
White Papers If your projects undergo frequent changes, this log will help you track the requests and make sure they get resolved. One key to keeping a project on track is to maintain careful records of change requests.
[May 15, 2006, 1:00]
Foreign Office Overspend Sees IT Projects Trimmed
News The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has overspent on two IT projects, forcing it to rethink some of its development plans. Other IT projects have been trimmed, with "financial constraints" forcing funding for the iRecords electronic-document...
[July 8, 2008, 9:01]
Wikimedia Projects
Downloads Wikimedia projects is an extension of the original Wikipedia Search widget. With Wikimedia Projects you can use Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, and, of course, in any of the languages that are available.
[July 9, 2007, 9:14]
US Report: New Internet2 Projects Aim For Multimedia Content
News The Middleware initiative also includes other projects for defining how the next-generation Internet will work, including security network quality of service, multicasting and directories. It has already donated $3.5 million to Internet2 projects.
[September 29, 1998, 11:47]
Blair IT Projects
Talkback Typically 60 percent of IT projects fail anyway and since some projects started before Mr. Blair, he did a fair job. You make it sound like he personally was the project manager. At least he admits he is not an IT wizard.
[June 28, 2007, 12:43]
New Survey: E-commerce Projects Doomed
News A significant majority were also dissatisfied with the time taken for developing IT projects. One respondent complained that projects had been rushed through, before they were completed: "I have seen deadlines missed -- so incomplete projects are...
[November 20, 1998, 15:32]
Banrisul Uses IBM Rational Software To Achieve Significant Cost Savings By Reducing The Number Of Labor Hours Required To Complete IT Projects
White Papers The bank wanted to boost its resource utilization capabilities by optimizing its oversight of numerous Information Technology (IT) projects and personnel resources. Leveraging IBM Rational software, Banrisul implemented a Project Management Office...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Open-source Eclipse Unveils Ajax Projects
News The Eclipse Foundation, an open-source consortium, on Tuesday detailed three projects designed to make Ajax-style web development easier. The Ajax projects, announced at the annual EclipseCon conference, are meant to make a wider number of tools...
[March 8, 2007, 8:41]
IT Projects Need Not Fail With Proper Planning And Testing
Talkback It is not before time for senior government IT officials to wake up to the failure rate of public IT projects (“Seven in 10 government IT projects fail”, 17th May). An enormous amount of money has been spent on IT projects, such as the NPfIT, that...
[May 21, 2007, 13:47]
Reducing The Risks Of Performance Problems In J2EE Projects
White Papers Most J2EE projects will have one or more developers with some J2SE (Java 2 standard edition) performance tuning experience, and it is expected that they will be able to carry this experience over to J2EE (Java 2 enterprise edition) projects.
[October 16, 2004, 3:00]
Project Management & Business Development Integrating Strategy, Structure, Processes And Projects
White Papers The objective of this paper is to provide insight into business development with relation to the make-up of strategy, structure, processes and projects as applied to the modern organisation. The project management of business development requires...
[December 13, 2005, 0:01]
Seven In 10 Government IT Projects Fail
News Seven in 10 government IT projects have failed, according to the chief information officer of the Department for Work and Pensions. Joe Harley called for projects to be completed at a lower cost to the taxpayer, and said the government wanted to...
[May 17, 2007, 13:04]
Funmail Flotation To Raise £5m For Projects
News The flotation will raise around £5m for a "number of different projects" according to Dominic Morley, associate director of WestLB Panmure, the company handling the Funmail float. Currently Funmail has around 45,000 users, with more than 1,000 new...
[July 5, 1999, 15:09]
Councils Offered E-projects For Download
News Local authorities will be able to search and download products developed by the 22 National Projects for e-government through a catalogue set up by West Sussex County Council, it was announced on 22 March 2005.
[March 22, 2005, 12:35]
Insurance Agency Prepares For New IT Projects, Realizes Savings Through SAM
White Papers The IT department had a number of vital projects planned for the next three years and wanted to gain control of the IT infrastructure to prepare for changes. As one of the largest insurance agencies in the United States, Lovitt & Touche realized...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Why Business Intelligence Projects Fail To Deliver ROI.
White Papers Too many Business Intelligence (BI) projects fail to deliver on their promises. The Butler Group identifies the key drivers of success, showing how structured approaches can deliver sustainable ROI.
[October 20, 2006, 6:14]
Open-source Projects Link To Microsoft System
News The Higgins and Bandit open-source projects are claiming a milestone in the development of open-source identity services with a link to a new Microsoft identity system. Higgins is a Switzerland of identity management products; these are examples of...
[January 29, 2007, 8:17]
Software Process Maturity And The Success Of Free Software Projects
White Papers The success of free software and open source projects has increased interest in utilizing the open source model for mature software development. However, the ad hoc nature of open source development may result in poor quality software or failures...
[April 20, 2006, 1:01]
When Bad Things Happen To Good Projects
White Papers But with IT projects, pessimism - otherwise known as contingency planning - is the only way to keep small technology problems from becoming full-blown business disasters. But the problems that can affect an enterprise software project increase all...
[April 28, 2006, 1:00]
Getting Aligned And Staying In Sync For Successful Projects With Outside Partners
White Papers But the difficulty of actually achieving truly synergistic partnerships-and ultimately successful projects-using such team members outside the corporation can't be overlooked. The idea of using outside partners to increase what your organization...
[May 2, 2005, 3:00]
