You Know You've been in IT too Long When...

Nothing says we can't be innovative and humorous... This is an Android we can believe in... You use a magic Quadrant to comparison shop. You refer to the wait staff as customer responsive service interfaces. You don't understand any longer how a Cloud could produce rain.  You're confused between Socialism and Social networks. You wish you were working on the Skynet project. You refer to your kids as 2.0, 3.0 and talk about your family...

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Top 5 Reasons IT Projects Fail

Last Fall, I wrote an article for Dice.com about the top 5 reasons ERP projects fail: that was in response to news of a specific project shutdown. However, the topic as to why IT projects in general seem to be so failure prone is worth exploring as well. As far as hard statistics as to how many IT projects succeed or fail; it's difficult to get a clear picture. Part of the reason this is the case is that often when a project is clearly going to...

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