By bfwebster on Mar 3, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Quality assurance, Software engineering | 0 Comments
Here’s an interesting story over at Physorg.com about the IT project supporting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing: Atos Origin is the information technology partner for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with the job of designing, building and operating the invisible IT infrastructure that supplies results, events and athlete information to the media, spectators and the [...]
By bfwebster on Feb 27, 2008 in Books, IT Project Management, Main, Methodology, Pitfalls, PMSE, Software engineering, Technology | 1 Comment
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)] CATEGORIES: organizational, conceptual The software development process–creating software to solve a particular problem–is long and complex and has many activities and stages. The exact list will vary depending on what book or article you read but can generally be said to include the following: [...]
By bfwebster on Jan 28, 2008 in Change management, IT project disputes, IT Project Management, Main | 0 Comments
Not all large IT projects fail, and even those that are deeply troubled can be turned around: Officials at HM Courts Service (HMCS) say they have turned around a failing £447m project to provide a national case management system for magistrates courts – a scheme that is 16 years late and will cost nearly three [...]
By bfwebster on Jan 23, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Quality assurance, Software engineering | 0 Comments
I’ve written a post over at my other website on why software engineers should spend time working in software quality assurance on a regular basis. ..bruce w..
By bfwebster on Jan 23, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Patterns | 3 Comments
From CVG comes an interesting (if brief) article on why so many commercial computer game projects are late: PC gamers waited with bated breath, to the point of asphyxiation, for Half-Life 2, but the game took an eternity to complete. Likewise, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 teased us with expectation until its eventual release, alongside Team [...]