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5 Things Grady Booch Has Learned About Complex Software Systems
The father of UML and design pattern enthusiast shares his fundamentals about developing, delivering and deploying big software projects.Feature
Six Secrets of Top-Notch Business Analysts
While a business analyst's responsibilities may vary by company and project, every IT employee and businessperson knows a good or bad BA when he sees one. Here's what the good ones do very well.Opinion
Using Open-Source Innovation Networks to Drive Collaborative Software Development
Collaboration on software development is essential, but how do you include your partners, customers and even competitors as part of an extended team? Read on for tips on using open source software to establish an innovative network for IT.Opinion
IT Governance Tips: Help to Improve Executive Buy-In
Beset by funding and other resource challenges? IT governance, if done right, will improve your reputation, increase funding and help your IT systems impact strategic business operations.Opinion
Tips for Assessing and Communicating the Value of IT
A new five-step approach for proving IT value will make your IT projects more successful and eliminate the need to defend IT initiatives.Feature
Silverlight's Starring Role in Bringing Streaming Video to the Olympics Website
Lights, camera… LOTS of action! Microsoft's Silverlight is powering the live video coverage of the Beijing Olympics, so you'll soon be able to watch your favorite sport competitions live on the web. Here's how some of the pieces all fit together — for both web developers and project managers.News
The Secret to Successful Project Teams
It doesn't take a project management guru to manage complex projects. Instead, give responsibility to the people who know best how to do the work.Opinion
Why IT Management Frameworks Don't Guarantee IT Success
Companies also need an IT maturity model for the enterprise. PLUS: 5 tips to jump-start consultants and standards organizations.News
Putting Together a Useful Project Plan for ITIL Configuration Management
The core of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is configuration management: the discipline of identifying, tracking, and controlling your IT environment's components to gain accurate and timely information for better decision-making. This book chapter explains how to manage the project for achieving those goals.Feature
Running an Effective Teleconference or Virtual Meeting
Virtual teams are becoming commonplace, but the old rules for running a meeting don't necessarily apply. Managers need to learn new skills to keep people engaged and to use the time (and technology) effectively. These tips will make your next remote meeting a success.Opinion
Enterprise 2.0: Five Innovations the CIO Shouldn't Miss
Technology managers can't afford to ignore Web 2.0 collaboration technologies, such as blogs, social networking, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and converged communications.Feature
Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development
Agile methodologies for software projects can help organizations create better software faster. Yeah, yeah, you've heard that before. Here, experienced programmers explain the key ingredients to make those goals achievable.Feature
Social Networking Websites from A to Z
From Facebook and LinkedIn to the less widely known Advogato developer site, CIO offers a primer on social networking sites that may benefit business professionals.Feature
Four Strategic Planning Myths Debunked
Think you can get by without a IT strategic plan? Think again.Opinion
Tips for Increasing ROI on Technology Investments: R&D Tax Credits
By understanding what qualifies and how to make a claim, companies can realize more benefits more efficiently.Feature
The Number-One Problem of CIOs: The Project Backlog
Demand for new apps pushes IT departments to their limits. Here's how you can cope.Feature
Project Management: Battling the Backlog
They might be behind, but they're not giving up. Here are three ways CIOs set project priorities.News
How to Use Enterprise Blogs to Streamline Project Management
Too many enterprise users get lost in storms of reply-all e-mails while trying to manage projects or collaborate. Blogs make a nbetter answer. Here's how two IT leaders made it work at their enterprises.News
Insecure Software's Real Cost: Software and Cement
Software has become crucial to the very survival of civilization. But badly written, insecure software is hurting people…and costing businesses and individuals billions of dollars every year. This must change. In his new book, "Geekonomics," David Rice shows how we can change it.Opinion
How IT Departments Can Learn to Say Yes to End Users
You say yes when business colleagues ask for something new, but usually you don't really mean it. That won't fly anymore. An expert in IT organizations advises how to adjust your (and your team's) attitude.nFeature
Visual Studio Updates Provide Greater Visibility into Application Development Projects
New features in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008 Team System enhance managers' view of software projects, the company says.Feature
How to Lay Dead Technologies to Rest
Disney wants new business projects to plan for decommissioning obsolete or unsupported technology up front.Feature
Double Jeopardy
Spending a bundle on smart, hard-working consultants won't guarantee you'll get what you paid for. Just ask the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust.Feature
Making Workflow Work and Flow for You
Workflow isn't rocket science, but it isn't magic either. While workflow can make major improvements in the way an organization runs, it achieves that goal only when its principles are applied correctly.News
A New Model for IT Demand Management
IT is a business. So why do so many IT leaders do such a terrible job of running their departments like one? Because they put too much emphasis on supply and not enough on demand. In this excerpt from IT Success: Towards a New Model for Information Technology, author Michael Gentle proposes a new model for IT demand management.Feature
Reader Q&A: Advice for Managing Business Meetings
In person or via teleconference, improve your decision-making processes in the meeting room.Feature
Five IT Projects That Need Your Attention Right Now
You have only so much funding and time, so don't waste either of them. These projects can make you a hero or at least can save you from one of those terrible "learning experiences."Feature
CIOs Chug through Chapter 11
Surviving corporate bankruptcy takes a toll but makes some CIOs stronger.Feature
The Role of IT in Innovation: Friend or Foe?
To innovate and stay competitive, companies must partner with IT, and IT must stay in step with where the business is headed.Feature
Project Collaboration: How One Company Got A Diverse Team on the Same Page
Managing a complex project with multiple moving parts and deadlines being worked on by a diverse team can get downright nasty. Here's how one company solved the problem.Feature
Top Tips from the CIO 100: 15 Ways to Create Innovation with IT
Making businesspeople comfortable and using technologies you already have are just two ideas you can steal from CIO 100 winners to make yourself a better innovator.News
Beware These Hazards to Functional Engagement in IT Projects
Get functional leadership right, and IT projects will go more smoothly, business partners will be better served and project leaders will be positioned for success. But, CIO Liam Durbin warns, five common scenarios will pressure you to skimp on it.Feature
Five Reasons Your Next PC Refresh Could Be a Perfect Storm
Factors like virtualization, consumer IT and new manageability tools converge to make your next refresh more complex and turbulent. Here’s advice on navigating it successfullyNews
CASE STUDY 3: Why You Keep Score
BNSF Railway uses the Balanced Scorecard to prove IT's value and to create synergy with business strategyFeature
How to Spot a Failing Project
Often, the difference between success and failure is spotting critical early warning signs that a project is in trouble. Here are a few ways to identify the symptoms.Feature
Can This Project Be Saved?
You've identified that your IT project is in trouble. What are the best ways to save the situation?How-To
Balanced Scorecard Definition and Solutions
Most organizations can benefit from a balanced scorecard approach, which can raise the profile of key projects, increase functionality, and predict future performance—and it often leads to greater financial return.Feature
How CIOs Can Learn to Love IM Messages, Social Networking Sites, Blogs, Wikis and Other Tools of User Empowerment
A guide to how CIOs can learn to live with and profit from consumer technologies.Feature
Tilting at Silos: Fostering Teamwork Between Insulated Groups
When closely knit teams are asked to work with each other, animosity can flare up quickly, leading to an “us versus them” mentality in both teams. We offer tips for traditional—and not-so-traditional—solutions.News
Quality Doesn’t Just Happen
If developers and managers both want to create software that users love, why is it that so many shoddy software projects escape from the Quality Assurance department? Judy McKay shares tales from the dark side of software testing.News
How One CIO Was Converted to Agile
Eugene Nizker, PhD, an experienced CIO and CTO, shares his tale of Agile epiphany. He was a skeptic, but it worked for him.Feature
The Best Way to Implement Agile Development Processes: Your Own Way
Blending more than one agile development method to fit your project needs s can be effective.Feature
How Agile Development Can Lead to Better Results and Technology-Business Alignment
Studies show agile development works, and yet few companies follow its principles. Learn how to get more agile.Feature
Extreme Project Management: 10 Tips to Accelerate Your Tech Project
Immediately accelerate productivity and reduce risk with these tips to save time and money.Feature
When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects
HP's project managers knew what could go wrong with their ERP rollout. They just didn't plan it all at once.How-To
Agile definition and solutions
Agile Programming topics covering definition, objectives, systems and solutions.News
Telstra's $11M Network and IT Overhaul in Trouble
Australian telecommunications giant Telstra is struggling to successfully upgrade its IT infrastructure and migrate customers from its CDMA network to its Next …
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