Projects: Management

How to Manage Successful IT Projects

One-fourth of IT projects are outright failures, and another 44% encounter significant difficulties, such as (sing along, you know the words) blown deadlines, overspent budgets, and failure to deliver on key goals. A book called Improving Your Project Management Skills (Amacom/Available now) aims to help you do what the title says. Author Larry Richman is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than three decades’ of experience. His practical guide is packed with tools, tips, charts, lists and other resources to help with planning, budgeting, scheduling, measuring performance, assessing risks and other key project management issues. The underlying lesson of the book is contained in this simple sentence: “The level at which you plan is the level at which you thereafter control” (or as the old adage has it, “Those who fail to plan are planning to fail”). Richman contends that careful thinking up front will reduce pain down the road. For more about the book, click here.

The Return of SaaS

Baseline research says renewed interest in software as a service will be the sixth-biggest tech trend of 2011.

A Strategic Measure of IT Value

Determining the value of an IT investment is no longer a matter of equating three accountants with one DEC minicomputer—not surprising, given that technology today focuses on enhancing processes rather than replacing them

What to Do When You Receive a BSA Audit Letter

Baseline talked to the experts who've directly dealt with the Business Software Alliance, and we've compiled an 8 step guideline process for handling the aftermath of receiving an intimidating audit letter.  

Diebold to Restate Results Following Probe

Diebold said it would restate its financial results for 2003 through 2006 and the first quarter of 2007 after a regulatory review that led it to adopt a new accounting method for recognizing revenue.

8 Ways to Avoid an Audit from the Business Software Alliance

The Business Software Alliance is not afraid to audit your company's software assets and make you pay. Baseline shows you how to avoid them altogether in 8 easy steps.

Quants: Unlocking the Numbers

The authors of Competing on Analytics say technology only takes a CIO so far. Aligning people around the numbers produced by business intelligence is essential for future success.

What a Subprime Mess We've Made

Could business intelligence have prevented the mortgage meltdown? Doubtful.

Union Aims to Disrupt Shell Outsourcing Plans

Labor representatives for Shell Oil employees want affected IT workers to receive nearly $400,000 compensation packages for having their jobs eliminated.

Wikia Brings Own Brand of Open, Social Search

With Wikia Search, co-founder Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia sets his sights on the search giants.

Engineering Firm Saves Cash with WAN Optimization

How one IT department managed to significantly improve the productivity of its dispersed workforce with wide area network optimization.

Will the Voting Machines Get It Right?

Colorado is the latest state to pull the plug on electronic voting machines due to accuracy and security concerns. Who's next?

IT Spend 2008: Some Wiggle Room for Innovation

AMR Research had recently reported one of the more bullish outlooks for IT spending in 2008, but has since shifted. It does, however, find that some companies are looking for IT spend to be an innovative catalyst.

Inside a Modern Malware Distribution System

Analysis of the Pushdo Trojan provides a glimpse of the tracking and hiding techniques used by online criminals.

5 Secure Reasons for Thin Clients

If you need justifications for adopting thin clients, look no further than these.

 

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