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Submitted by CMS Report on June 3, 2008 - 12:05pmIntelligent Enterprise: A new Ventana Research report finds that most companies are falling short on the basics of performance management. Here are five sets of diagnostic questions as well as best practices for broader, more responsive and more effective planning and budgeting.
Frank Hayes: Hard questions needed to save projects
Submitted by Bryan on March 17, 2008 - 5:44am
"What now? That's the hard question. When an
IT project is in trouble, it's easy to ask what went wrong and who's to
blame. Easy and popular. And fun, if you're not on the hot seat. But
what to do to save the project? That's harder -- a lot harder.
Especially when, as with the U.S. Census Bureau's "paperless census" project, it can't be killed and can't be delayed."
Linux.com: Hosting multiple projects with DrProject
Submitted by Bryan on September 13, 2007 - 5:14pm"Individual developers can use sites like SourceForge.net to host multiple projects, but such sites are not well suited to college environments that have many student programming projects to host. DrProject is a multiple project hosting application designed for schools. It gives each project a wiki, bug tracker, and source code repository.
DrProject is a fork of the Trac project, which can only host project at a time. DrProject has a different look and feel but the navigation menu is very similar to Trac's."
Getting more work done through less innovation
Submitted by Bryan on July 3, 2007 - 4:55amIn "How Innovation Can Be Too Much of a Good Thing", George Anders writes about how companies and business consultants are rediscovering that less innovation can produce better business results. Companies that used to push the limit in efficiency are finding that they're "jamming too many new ideas into a product pipeline, without enough slack time to ensure that critical tasks stayed on schedule".
Similar insights have been standard wisdom on the manufacturing floor for decades. Factory managers learn about bottlenecks through the formal discipline of queuing theory. That teaches them to keep a little slack in the system to handle the unpredictable -- but inevitable -- crunch times.
pingVision: Project Management with Drupal
Submitted by Bryan on June 6, 2007 - 11:43amComplete Story
OSC: Trac - Making management of OSS and commercial projects easier
Submitted by Bryan on May 11, 2007 - 7:18amA couple days ago, I was checking up on the status of Wordpress 2.1, which is supposed to have exciting new features like pseudo cron and spell checking. I came across Wordpress's defect/feature management system, Trac. Just to be clear, Wordpress isn't the author of Trac."
Complete StoryQuestioning CMS Consolidation
Submitted by Bryan on May 7, 2007 - 5:13amMany organizations are looking at a portfolio of dozens of content management systems running somewhere on their network. From sheer tidiness alone, it’d be nice to have a shorter list. And such tidiness can have real benefits: better negotiating leverage with vendors, reduced overhead to manage contracts, reductions in the number of servers and hence in datacenter space (with attendant power and operational costs), and so on. Finally, increased demands for compliance and control are placing a premium on simplifying information management.In my own organization, we have had both Internet and intranet servers since the mid 1990's supporting operations and administrators. While we moved our Internet web servers onto a CMS a few years ago, it is only the past few months that many of our offices and departments have shifted their intranet from static pages to much more dynamic system. As many of our field offices migrate their servers to utilizing newer Web 2.0 and collaboration applications, IT and management have a strong desire to consolidate those applications and servers.
IT Manager's Journal: Key principles for project management success
Submitted by Bryan on April 1, 2007 - 8:05amComplete Story

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