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If a project is going to fail, make it fail fast
If an IT project is going to fail--and let's face it, a lot of them are--it's cheaper and easier if it fails quickly. Companies can save millions of dollars by failing fast, and the trick is to know
IT projects 20 times more likely to fail than other business initiatives
Big IT initiatives are 20 times more likely to crash and burn than other business initiatives, Oxford University researchers concluded after studying 1,471 IT projects over the last decade. One of
Four signs that an IT project should be axed
You gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em, but when it comes to IT projects it can hard to recognize the time for folding. There are four signs that offer a good indication that it's
The high cost of complexity
The complexity of an IT system is directly correlated to its chance of failure, maintains Roger Sessions, CTO of ObjectWatch. A system that costs less than $750,000 may well succeed, but a system
Tech projects that have blown the budget (slideshow)
The cost of many large tech projects has a tendency to inflate unexpectedly, as revisions and delays demand a growing piece of the budget. InformationWeek's Jake Widman takes a look at 15 mega
Study: Poor governance = project failure
IT governance initiatives are generally deployed only within the IT department, leading to a lack of coordination between the IT part of the project and the overall management of business
Exploiting rapid technology changes
Managing the pace of technology change requires strong leadership. Because technologies like wikis, blogs and social networking are accelerating into the enterprise so quickly, companies need
Tales of projects that crashed and burned
If you and your organization recently experienced a major IT project failure, just remember that you're in good company. As an interesting article details, some of the biggest corporations today
SPOTLIGHT: FBI debuts second try at investigative database
A scan of this year's headlines proves that the federal government hasn't had much to boast about when it comes to IT security, data protection and overall cyber security technology success. But
