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- Sixteen IT failures to remember
- Here's a list of 16 IT failures worth remembering. Covering a full-range of devastated projects from both government and private industry, this list shows the true diversity of IT failure. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Agile: Anatomy of a failed project
- Agile development could not overcome fundamental misunderstandings that ultimately led to catastrophic project failure. Here's why. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Project Darwinism? [photo]
- Do successful projects possess an evolutionary superiority advancing the overall state of project capability in the world? The answer is shown in a photo of "pumpkin Darwinism." by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-26
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- Each major section in BIT ends with a case study - this is the Cutter Mills case from 2001 illustrating the governance issues associated with appliance computing. by Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-10-24
- Business change failures: 9 success tips
- Transforming and improving business operations lies at the heart of successful IT implementations. Here are 9 guidelines to avoid failure. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- On IT failure: IDC group vice president Mike Fauscette [podcast]
- IDC's Group Vice President, Mike Fauscette, leads a team of enterprise software analysts for one of the largest research firms in the world. To better understand IT failures, read this interview. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Categorizing failure and lining up ducks
- To really understand IT failures, it's helpful to organize, categorize, and line them up like ducks. I group IT failures into management process trials and technical tribulations. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Stop brain-dead software testing!
- Lousy software testing damages many IT projects. When testing doesn't uncover obvious problems that prevent software from operating as users expect, then failed projects are inevitable. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- World's worst IT failure report
- Reporting failure requires balancing facts with making interpretations about why the failure occurred. One failure report violated all the rules. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- IT failure: The definition game
- What does IT "failure" actually mean? While this question should be easy to answer, many discussions on the topic become little more than word games. Simple metrics. Some observers, including myself, begin their analysis of failure with three criteria. We ask whether a...
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- MediaMax / The Linkup: When the cloud fails
- Online storage service MediaMax, also called The Linkup, went out of business following a system administration error that deleted active customer data. The defunct company raises questions about the reliability of cloud computing. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- The triple sins that cause IT failure
- Why don't more organizations recognize potential IT project problems before they escalate into full-blown failures? Companies reject good solutions to fix bad projects for three reasons: internal politics, budget, and fear/pride. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- 12 early warning signs of IT failure
- High rates of IT project failure persist because most organizations don't understand the real reasons why their projects fail. Don't ignore the early warning signs of failure; they're a loud siren if you listen carefully. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- What was the cause of the last PC failure you came across?
- Quick poll inspired by a Hardware 2.0 JaneB reader who wanted to know what is the most common kind of PC failure. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellers
- To describe more failures than one lone blogger could possibly investigate himself, here's a new type of post: the IT failures roundup. I'll periodically report on interesting failures using a brief, overview format. JFK airport baggage handling system goes down. American Airlines scored...
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Amazon's S3 post-mortem demonstrates maturity
- Amazon web services experienced a substantial service outage on July 20, disrupting customers across the web. Their post-mortem demonstrates an unusual level of organizational maturity for an Enterprise 2.0 company. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Stop the madness: 10 steps to kill failures
- Are you too pussy-footed to pull the plug on projects that will inevitably fail? If so, you're not alone. Whether through fear, denial, or ignorance, many organizations don't kill their doomed projects fast enough. It's a darn shame because these lousy things can drive everyone crazy while burning scarce resources....
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Bad leadership causes failed IT
- IT failures continue to plague organizations across virtually every industry. Poor business leaders who don't possess the skills needed to manage change effectively have created this mess. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- Killing project vampires
- Many failing IT projects are quiet, hanging around almost indefinitely like a form of annoying background noise. These purposeless ghosts consume time and resources, perhaps fulfilling a checklist on some bureaucrat's chart, while ultimately producing little return. Such project vampires should be stabbed through the heart...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
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