Thursday, 22 November 2007

IT Project Failures cost UK & Ireland Business £1/4bn per year

CA, one of the world’s largest information technology management software companies, has just published results with the sadly un-surprising figures.

The new research of 100 CIOs and IT Directors reveals that poor visibility and a lack of management control over them is the main cause.

At ProjExc we believe in using the 3 elements of success for business projects – i) process, ii) tools, and iii) competent project leaders. Clearly these need to be scaled appropriate to the project, and as the CA findings showed, if appropriate tools are not used in projects, the odds are stacked against success.

Friday, 16 November 2007

Facebook Widgets to Help with Project Management

I was impressed to read of a novel way of making Facebook a good thing for business & project management.  Five widgets to help projects:
1) Wikimono
2) MyLinkedIn Profile
3) Sticky Notes
4) Blog RSS Feed Reader
5) Marco Polo

Check out this recent article http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/139655/five_favorite_facebook_widgets_for_business_users.html