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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO

“Agile software development projects iterate the cycle of plan, do, check, adjust — and the end user or representative sponsoring [the project] is key in all these stages,” says Ola Chowning, a partner with global technology research and advisory firm ISG. The KPIs for a project should be specific and linked to company goals.

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3 ways to help secure the course of a new transformation program

CIO

I can’t recall seeing a project timeline that didn’t have a task referring to some type of a mobilization plan during the first 30 days. Of course, during those first 30 days, you’ll do many activities, including refining your overall program plan. But the details of the plan aren’t always clearly articulated in the initial SOW drafts.

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7 signs business stakeholders will sink your IT project

CIO

IT projects fail at alarming rates — nearly 70% of them , according to project management tool provider TeamStage. Common factors of project failure are missed deadlines, blown budgets, or deliverables that fail to meet original objectives. CIOs and project managers understand these risks.

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20 IT management certifications for IT leaders

CIO

For instance, if you oversee security teams, you may want to consider the security-focused certifications, whereas if you manage an agile team, then project management and agile-focused certifications may be a better fit.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

You can of course make a series of obviously bad decisions, but you'd get fired quickly. Technology When joining, require a 6-18 months rewrite of core systems. Split systems along arbitrary boundaries: maximize the number of systems involved in any feature. Encourage communal ownership of systems.

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New live online training courses

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Learn new topics and refine your skills with more than 219 new live online training courses we opened up for June and July on the O'Reilly online learning platform. Reinforcement Learning: Building Recommender Systems , August 16. Certified Blockchain Solutions Architect (CBSA) Certification Crash Course , July 25. Blockchain.

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7 early warning signs of a dying IT project

CIO

Given the extended timeline and massive amount of resources dedicated to that project, the only reason it survived to completion was the absolute necessity to change all date formats so they wouldn’t clock out systems at the end of the last century. In other words, enterprises’ Y2K projects succeeded because of their urgency.

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