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Commentary: Six Rules for CIO Survival
Last week I wrote about the evolving challenges of CIO education—and the need to figure out what a career…
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John Parkinson: Why Business Schools Aren’t Turning Out Good CIO Candidates
Once a month or so, a small group of my friends and colleagues from the past 20 years get…
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Opinion: How to Fix a Failing IT Project
My last two postings were about the difficulties of estimating the cost in time and money of software development…
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Opinion: The Perils of Project Planning
In my last column, I wrote about the challenges we face when trying to create a useful estimate of…
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Opinion: Estimating Software Development Projects
One of the hardest things to do in any human endeavor is to predict the future accurately. Since the…
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Technology: Can You Automate Software Quality?
For most of the past few weeks I have been moderating an intense and evolving debate on software quality…
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John Parkinson: Real Mobility is Still a Few Years Away
For most of the last four years, I’ve been waiting for “mobility” to really change the way I work.…
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Column: John Parkinson on Waiting for Vista, Patiently
It’s almost exactly three years since I first saw (under strict non-disclosure) a demonstration of the new Microsoft client…
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Column: John Parkinson on How to Manage Corporate Innovation
“Every idea has its time—and when the time comes, just about everyone has the idea.” I’ve been thinking a…