June, 2008 | TroubleShooter

So long and thanks for all the fits

Bill Gates has stepped down from his last management position at Microsoft. One of the great achievements of Microsoft during his time at the helm has been to offer a standard platform on which enterprise applications can be developed. Bill’s greatest legacy to the corporate world is interoperability.

Microsoft’s success in the past three decades under Bill Gates was undoubtedly READ MORE

Another billion dollars of “wasted” IT?

From Computer Weekly: “The government has wasted at least half a billion pounds on overrun IT projects, according to figures collected by Liberal Democrat shadow chancellor Vince Cable.”

Congratulations to Vince Cable for highlighting more symptoms of the Trillion Dollar Bonfire. What we really need though is for Government to change their behaviour.

Taxpayers and politicians need to ensure that READ MORE

How do you spot the Cinderella projects in your own organisation?

We’ve all got one, haven’t we? A project that nobody wants to know, let alone be part of. Starved of resources and goodwill the staff on such Cinderella projects languish alone, apparently unloved by the rest of the organisation, while they wait desperately for a friendly Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming to rescue them from their life of READ MORE

IT skills crisis, reaping what we sow

The iT press are regularly concerned about a growing IT skills crisis and I strongly believe that this is entirely a function of IT management policies and behaviour in the past decade. A talent shortage now shouldn’t surprise anyone after all the outsourcing, unsourcing and off-shoring.

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Social (networking) insecurity – is it a generation thing?

The growing plethora of social networking sites is being fuelled by a powerful combination of free access, functionality, fashion and fickleness.{readmore}

When each new service comes online it doesn’t seem to take too long for last month’s “latest big thing” to look jaded and less exciting to those who eagerly signed up for yet another free social network subscription.