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One in three IT projects exceed budget
A third of IT projects carried out in the private sector runs between 10 and 20 percent over the original budget, according to a CIO survey. Read more »
Australian ICT industry worth $123 billion
Australia's ICT industry for the year to 30 June 2007 made $123 billion and employed just under 300,000 people, paying $21 billion in wages, according to numbers released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Read more »
Security spend triples, breaches fall 30 percent
A UK government-sponsored security survey reports that security breaches have fallen by a third in the past two years but spending on security has increased significantly. Read more »
SOA top of mind but not top of budget: IDC
While IT executives can see the benefits of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, minimal budgets and a lack of mature technology are holding back adoption, according to the research house. Read more »
CIOs shift focus to IT services in 2005: Gartner
Chief information officers (CIOs) will be shifting their priorities in 2005 to improving business processes, according to analyst Bob Hayward from Gartner Group. Read more »
Open source picks some new fights
Open-source software, increasingly popular with budget-conscious companies, is beginning to expand into a new area: The lucrative infrastructure-software market dominated by industry giants such as Microsoft. Read more »
Will a US recession demolish global IT budgets in 2008?
The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous. Read more »
On-time and on-budget -- but projects still fail
Although IT project governance has generally improved over the past year, companies are having difficulty recognising when a project has actually failed, accountancy firm KPMG says. Read more »
Web services more important than security
Technologies that allow more flexibility are increasingly important to IT managers, according to research. Read more »
Linux use doubles in financial organisations
Growing support for Linux has been the single biggest technology change in financial organisations over the past twelve months, say researchers. Read more »
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Use surveys to measure customer satisfaction
Many organisations have a hard time determining whether their projects are successful or not. A couple of these success criteria are obvious -- your actual end date versus your initial deadline date and your actual project spending versus your initial project budget. But is that all there is? Read more »
How to safely raid your project budget
In an era of budget cuts, here are some tips on effectively managing your resource budget to deal with shifting tasks and constant change. Read more »
10 ways to effectively estimate and control project costs
Estimating what a project will cost is only half the battle; controlling those costs during the project and after delivery is equally critical. Take a look at these methods for predicting and managing costs. Read more »
10 things you should do near the end of a project
When it comes to the end of a project, many project managers come up just short of the finish line. Failure to handle the final steps can add confusion to an initiative and may lead to customer dissatisfaction, unhappy staff, and a project dragging on longer than necessary. Read more »
Study: Techies could use some PR
When it comes to self-promotion, information technology managers are much too bashful, according to a recent study. Read more »
Developer skills outlook 2007: What's hot for employers?
What skills will developers need to remain in a job in 2007? In the first of a two-part series, Angus Kidman speaks to employers and industry watchers to identify the key technologies and soft skills that are currently in demand. Read more »
10 security problems unique to IT
Organisations face a host of security concerns driven by the power of technology and the vulnerabilities inherent in its use. IT pros have to be vigilant about all these issues, from system penetration threats to hardware portability to employee turnover. Read more »
Signals from the open-source LAMP
As PHP apparently becomes the world's leading scripting language, the open-source LAMP burns a little more brightly. Read more »
Value-based approach to Web site design - Part 3
Steve Baty rounds up his guide to helping Web developers answer business owners' demand to show return on investment. Read more »
Certification: What's in a name?
The technology industry is awash with certifications at the individual and organisational level, but are these qualifications worth the paper they're printed on? We investigate. Read more »
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