Scenario Planning IT Problems and Outages

While planning for problems is a valuable exercise on projects, application management and support groups need to perform periodic risk assessments of critical business systems as user adoption evolves over time after the original implementation is complete. Are your business continuity plans fresh enuf to serve your enterprise during the next glitch? ...

... "Risk management exercises — reviewing likely scenarios of failure and preparing for them — should be a part of every IT project. Huge catastrophic glitches aside, the day-to-day glitches also add up ... " ...

Via ZDNet: Software glitches

Project 10 to the 100 Polls Open for Voting

What projects, if implemented, will have the greatest impact on helping the most people? Google's project idea generation process has been organized into themes and voting its being used to prioritize the projects. Vote now through October 8. ...

... "Project 10^100, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Your response was overwhelming. Thousands of people from more than 170 countries submitted more than 150,000 (or around 10^5.2) ideas, from general investment suggestions to specific implementation proposals. " ...

Via Google, Project 10 to the 100: Vote Here

When Project Failure Impacts Enterprise Survival

One of the risks that we consider when preparing a business case for IT projects is business impact. It is a risk that is worth considering, understanding, and mitigating. Or else, this happens. ...

... "Samas, supplier of office furniture, will need to issue new shares as the company has been financially hard hit following an IT project. " ...

Via Expatica: Dutch News

From Samas Annual Report: "The implementation of project Harmony in the course of the financial year under review and especially in the year 2006 / 2007 may impact the business as a consequence of these changes. The company manages the risk through a phased implementation programme. "