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Reviewing Vodafones IT failure

A few days ago, The matters under investigation were a consequence of errors during a complex IT migration which involved moving more than 28.5 million customer accounts and almost one billion individual

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War Stories

20 little rules for surviving in IT Projects

Below are just a few things I've come across in almost 19 years of working in IT. After a chat with a good friend who is considering breaking into It I thought it

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Projects

The four constraints of a Project

Today I came across an interesting blog article on . It's about a comment made by Admiral Gehman (Head of the ) regarding Space Shuttle Management at NASA. I've copied the key part below: The

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Projects

This is the most important project we have ever done

I'm sure those words have been echoed in many IT departments up and down the country. With those words at the start of a meeting I was under the impression that "The

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War Stories

Software is not a panacea - Part 2

In the previous article I raised the fictional scenario of a company wanting to automate a timesheet submission process. In this article I'd like to touch on some of the project processes that

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Administrivia

Busy Project Time.........

Just when you think it's all going to be quiet and maybe it will be a good time to get those niggling little tasks out of the way and to be able to

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