It's time to stop hoping that paying high dollars for experienced project directors will solve the project delivery problem. It won't. Continued reliance on 'heroes' is madness.

Your software development projects can benefit from Agile - assuming it's really what's used. Learn about the sins that have been committed in the name of "Agile."

Open source technologies help McKesson deliver lower-cost IT solutions to its healthcare customers by trimming the tab for hardware and software.

Peter Weill, the director of MIT's Center for Information Systems Research, says there are six key IT decisions that CIOs and the business must collaborate on. Ignore them at your peril . . .

Generation Y is known for being high-maintenance in the workplace. So when an economic downturn brings Gen Y workers pink slips instead of promotions, you might think they'll wither like flowers. In fact, they may be better positioned for survival than their older co-workers.

Science and technology may not have been the focus of the recent debates between presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama, but both candidates have outlined some broad policy proposals and goals. That's a good thing, because, as some of the top technology thinkers in the United States today recently shared with Computerworld, the next president will have to tackle the country's ongoing decline in global technological competitiveness.

It would be hard to exaggerate the angst that has gripped the US in recent months as the election nears, markets churn and assets melt. But the headlines that have made us dread picking up the newspaper mask a long-term problem that may shape the future of America more than John McCain's plan for Iraq, Barack Obama's health care ideas or Uncle Sam's heroic efforts to rescue the economy.

With the world economy in shambles many businesses are already battening down the hatches expecting rough seas ahead. IT budgets will shrink along with all other budgets, and maybe even more than other budgets. After all, companies still need to advertise and pay their workforce, but they may be able to do without new servers or software for a while. And that is where open source software vendors can help keep the ship sailing.

Mohammad Khalid Shah, corporate director of IT at Avari Hotels, is certainly thinking about it... but are the others in the hospitality industry?

As Pakistan continues to go through increasing inflation and economic instability due to the political situation and the Rupee's inability to hold on to the coat tails of the US Dollar, local and multinational companies and SMEs face an unenviable situation: balancing cost and profit ratios by trying to predict how the economy will respond in the coming months. Meanwhile, oil prices continue to be all over the place, and the costs of oil related commodities continue to rise, thus effecting planning and profit forecasting and causing a perpetual headache to those who have to predict where to efficiently and effectively buy from.

CIOs reshape their IT culture to create an organization capable of partnering strategically with the rest of the business