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  • Think Tank: An elevator pitch for your project

    When you are a project owner, manager or a sponsor you are often asked what the project is about. It is important because bosses, employees, customers, and partners all need to ‘buy-in’ and become excited about your idea. They will form an initial impression in three minutes or less. This first impression is the lens through which everything else is viewed.

    Written by Hemant Kogekar • 07 Feb. 12 12:02

  • Paul Glen: The 'Low Affect' Effect

    In my exploration of the differences between technical and business people, nothing surprised me more than this: Business people tend to think that we don't care about anything. One of their biggest complaints is that we don't share their passion for the business. When-ever I hear this, I have an immediate, visceral reaction of outrage: "How could you possibly think I don't care about anything? I work like a dog to try to turn your visions into reality!"

    Written by Paul Glen • 23 Jan. 12 22:11

  • CA Technologies revises Clarity interface

    CA Technologies has updated its CA Clarity Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software with a new user interface, one that the company hopes will appeal to a broader set of business users.

    Written by Joab Jackson • 19 Jan. 12 03:29

  • iPhone app spotlight: Abukai expense reporting

    You know the Sisyphus drill: gather all your receipts and type them into an Excel Spreadsheet or Web portal, in order to get reimbursed for corporate expenses. Next month, same thing. After a long business trip, expect to spend up to two hours performing this task.

    Written by Tom Kaneshige • 18 Jan. 12 08:49

  • Deceased Surfline founder to be remembered Sunday

    Surfers around the world are getting ready to honor Surfline founder and president Sean Collins, who died December 26 from a sudden heart attack. He was 59-years-old. Collins turned a hobby into a profitable surf forecasting business relied-on by many surfers and ocean enthusiasts.

    Written by Kerry Davis • 07 Jan. 12 08:22

  • Bold hiring strategies from fearless CIOs

    Everyone's afraid. You can't read an article, watch a news broadcast or speak to another human being without tasting the fear. We all may agree that we'd be stupid not to be cautious, but smart leaders are working to mitigate fear and move their organizations forward.

    Written by Kristen Lamoreaux • 01 Dec. 11 06:26

  • Government agency IT budget cuts confirmed: Swan

    The Gillard government’s treasurer, Wayne Swan, has indicated in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) that there will be a 20 per cent cut in capital expenditure for government agencies with IT projects worth less than $10 million under the knife.

    Written by Hamish Barwick • 30 Nov. 11 09:58

  • Victorian Ombudsman slams Labor government for failed ICT projects

    The Victorian Ombudsman has lambasted the former Labor government for causing major ICT project management issues, with a relaxed approach and inconsistent staff training causing many projects to fail.

    Written by Lisa Banks • 23 Nov. 11 16:11

  • Ensuring project success

    Project plans sometimes go off the rails. That's always been the case, and with the perfection of the human race nowhere on the horizon, it will remain true. But we can reduce the number of projects that fail.

    Written by Bart Perkins • 21 Nov. 11 22:10

  • The New Metrics for CIO Success

    When I began my career as a CIO in 1997, success was defined by the basics: email delivery, network connectivity and application functionality. I personally wrote code, experimented with new operating systems and created novel analytics.

    Written by John D. Halamka • 21 Nov. 11 22:10

  • OpDemand service aims to ease IaaS deployments

    OpDemand on Thursday opened its service that automates deployment of cloud infrastructure to all users. The service is free to use initially.

    Written by Nancy Gohring • 18 Nov. 11 06:28

  • Talking to the Business: Our Problems, Their Visions

    The first meeting for a project is a tense affair. There can be a lot of new things coming at you all at once. New co-workers. New technology. New processes. And, perhaps most problematic, new business partners.

    Written by Paul Glen • 08 Nov. 11 02:22

  • Equinix creates market for data center clients to trade services

    Equinix has launched an online marketplace for its data center customers, to make it easier for them to buy and sell network, managed hosting and other services among themselves.

    Written by James Niccolai • 24 Oct. 11 14:57

  • Criminals turn to 'card-trapping' at ATM machines to get cash

    Criminals are embracing methods to trap debit and credit cards in ATMs for retrieval later, a move believed to be motivated by better security measures designed to ensure card details are not copied at the machines, according to an industry group.

    Written by Jeremy Kirk • 19 Oct. 11 23:44

  • CIO Summit Roundtable: Application specific SLAs for the enterprise

    Some enterprises have centralised, moved consolidated global ICT assets without giving much thought to the performance of their business applications. While consolidation can help to lower costs, users can have very different experiences for accessing data and applications based on the physical distance to the data centre, where latency may be an issue.

    Written by Georgina Swan • 12 Oct. 11 11:06

  • IT Outsourcing Survey: Provider Profits Shrink, Growth Slows in India

    Established IT outsourcers are getting squeezed at both ends of the competitive spectrum. According to the annual offshore outsourcing survey conducted by Duke University's Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and PwC, incumbent India-based and U.S. IT service providers are under pressure from outsourcing upstarts in other countries that are stealing market share from them and from existing clients demanding price reductions.

    Written by Stephanie Overby • 12 Oct. 11 04:05

  • It's not the coding that's hard, it's the people

    The data about software development is sobering. Many projects end up over budget and over schedule, and one study puts the failure rate at one-in-five.

    Written by Patrick Thibodeau • 06 Oct. 11 22:33
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    PMBOK vs PRINCE2 vs Agile project management

    There are a range of different methodologies which are often applied to project management, with the three most commonly considered being PMBOK, PRINCE2 and Agile. If you're trying to weigh up what are the pros and cons of PMBOK versus PRINCE2 versus something like Agile, you may find it useful to consider them in context with the project that you're undertaking, as well as comparing one to the other.

    Written by CIO Staff • 29 Sept. 11 07:00

  • The cost advantage controversy of Cloud computing

    One of the topics most associated with cloud computing is its cost advantages, or lack thereof. One way the topic gets discussed is "capex vs. opex," a simple formulation, but one fraught with meaning.

    Written by Bernard Golden • 20 July 11 00:54

  • Project communications: To blog or not to blog?

    We have all been told that communication with all stakeholders, particularly the core project team, is one of the central responsibilities of the Project Manager.

    Written by Gary Hamilton, Gareth Byatt and Jeff Hodgkinson • 12 July 11 11:43
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