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NSW government wants Linux IP, patent protection

The NSW government is asking Linux companies seeking appointment to a panel of suppliers to its agencies to address their ability to protect customers from "anti-Linux" litigation. Read more »

Think proprietary, government tells open source

Open-source developers keen to impress potential government buyers should take some pages from the practices of proprietary software vendors, a senior government procurement officer told attendees at the AUUG 2004 conference in Melbourne. Read more »

Interview: Bob Muglia on Longhorn

Longhorn Server will likely be Microsoft's most complex operating system ever, and Bob Muglia has little latitude for more slips. Read more »

How to use quality gates to guide IT projects

Many projects don't have enough quality controls in place to ensure a quality product. Here's how to use "quality gates" to monitor project progress. Read more »

J D Edwards' Ian Hodge: Straight to the source

What sets J D Edwards apart from the likes of Siebel and PeopleSoft? We speak with Ian Hodge, managing director Australia/New Zealand, about the future of business software and services. Read more »

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How to successfully execute the scope management phase of a project

There's very little that you can do before the start of a project without first defining the project scope. Read more »

How to successfully execute the scope management phase of a project

Executing the Scope Management phase of your project will allow you to create and maintain the Scope Statement that outlines the deliverables you need to produce by the end of your project. 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 »

Four tips for using metrics on your project

Identifying, gathering, and leveraging the right mix of metrics is a way to gain better control of your large project. Read more »

Managing yourself through a challenge

I often write about managing others through problems or crises because it's part of the day-to-day experience as a manager/leader. But what about managing yourself? Read more »

Define project scope to include deliverables, boundaries, and requirements

There are two places that scope is defined on your project. High-level scope is defined in your project charter. Low-level scope is defined in your business requirements document. Read more »

Use special project management techniques for dispersed teams

In the past, a project team almost always resided in one location. The reason is obvious: it wasn't easy to communicate and collaborate with people who were not in the same physical location. The communication has improved, and so must the management. Read more »

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 »

Five common errors in requirements analysis (and how to avoid them)

In the traditional waterfall model of software development, the first phase of requirements analysis is also the most important one. Read more »

Sample directory structure helps manage project documentation

Large projects generate a lot of documentation, so you need to plan ahead for how your documents should be organised, stored and retrieved. Read more »

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If only every project ended this way...

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- Today the birds are singing, the sun is shining and I am just putting the wraps on a .NET application I have been working on for the past 4 months. Read more »

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    Even in the era of virtualization, many IT pros (including myself) have a small army of computers sitting on, under, and around their desks. Read more »

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    Yet more discouraging news on the Android front. Having hacked off its developer community by releasing updated SDKs to just a small group of chosen devs, Google has now given the brush-off to a petition that called for more to be given to the wider community. Read more »

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    As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. Read more »

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