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Strong Executive Level Sponsorship and SOA Evangelist
CIO — The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winners of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Case Study Competition. All of the winners successfully delivered business or mission value using an SOA approach. As I listened to the ...More…
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When Agile Projects Go Bad
CIO — Agile project management has taken the software development community by storm, with terms like sprint and Scrum becoming part of everyday team conversations. But as Agile techniques are incorporated into company practices, there exists the very ...More…
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The Wisdom of Crowds
CIO — Most of the 400 presentations at the Agile 2008 conference, held last month in Toronto, were geared for developers and testers. But the event held more than a few revelations and "Aha!" moments for IT managers, particularly revolving around team ...More…
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Evaluating Agile Software Development Programs
CIO — Although it may not be obvious, software is hidden in crucial aspects of your everyday life, from the bank ATM that gives you money, to the E-Z Pass that allows simplified payment methods to major roadways. Delivering high-quality software ...More…
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Project Management Definition and Solutions
CIO — How do I determine if a project is going to fail once it's in motion? What are some common project-management methodologies, and which work best for various kinds of IT projects? Some companies have project-management offices. What's their ...More…
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Hot IT Certifications for a Cool Job Market
CIO — If the doomsayers prove right, throngs of laid-off tech workers will soon be competing for only a handful of available jobs. Technical certifications, once thought to be the ticket to higher pay and more prestige, may be needed to simply avoid ...More…
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Hot Jobs: Project Manager
CIO — A project manager (PM) serves as a critical link between IT team members and key individuals involved with a project to ensure its timely completion, says Katherine Spencer Lee, executive director at Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing ...More…
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NSF Wants $7B to Head Off Demise of Moore's Law, Fund ...
CIO — The National Science Foundation is looking to spend a good chunk of its proposed $7.045 billion budget for FY 2010 on advanced network technologies. The overall budget would be an 8.5% increase over FY 2009's and would include $1.1 billion on ...More…
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Project Management: 8 Steps to On-Time, On-Budget Delivery
CIO — Businesses of all sizes embark on thousands of projects for new products and services every year. Unfortunately, most projects are doomed to fail outright, or at launch, because the original success criteria were not met. Some project failures ...More…
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Developers, Analysts, have High Expectations for Google I/O
CIO — Google will hold on Wednesday and Thursday its largest event of the year for external developers, a constituency that it views as critically important for the health of its business and online services. About 3,500 developers will attend Google ...More…
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Latest Kaspersky Mobile Software Wipes Data Via SMS
CIO — Kaspersky Lab's latest mobile security software due to be released next week can wipe data with a text message command even if a thief has swapped out the phone's SIM card. The feature is one of several in Mobile Security 8.0 focused on ...More…
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Five Signs a Project is Headed for Trouble
CIO — In these difficult times, lots of projects are getting canceled, postponed or mothballed. Although these are perfectly normal occurrences in IT, they seem more frequent, swift and stinging now. RELATED LINKS 26 Ways to Know Your Software ...More…