Bladewatch.com

http://www.itweek.co.uk/computing/news/2172742/cios-blame-failures-poor

More than 90 per cent of chief information officers (CIOs) believe IT projects are not being properly monitored by the business, and failing systems are wasting valuable resources by being allowed to run on too long.

A 2007 census carried out by industry user group CIO Connect, says just nine per cent of CIOs take rapid corrective action when a project veers off the rails.

Clear project governance is the solution to the problem, says Nick Kirkland, managing director of CIO Connect.

I’ve always been a bit sceptical of the whole project thing, say it’s support and the job just gets done, say its projects we need to allocate time, arrange budget, debate.. Can I say it? That projects seem to lack the sense of urgency?

Not necessarily from the Project Managers or the business, but the I’ve been given a day, so I’ll take a day from the technical guys, coupled with the ownership thing, I’ve turned up to install Solaris and there’s no patch, rather than me call patching, I email the project manager, costing time for everyone.

Ultimately you need three things, effective project managers, an active relationship between the project manager and the technical teams, everyone owning their role. Granted we’re all busy, and you can only achieve what you can, but if you can get two of the three then you should be doing ok, check out the article, its an interesting read.

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