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• 7 Failures from Bad RFPs
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• Avoiding Failure with SaaS
• Project Planning and Failure in the Mid-Market
• "Characteristics of a Troubled Project"
• "They Knew it would be Hellish"
• Note to Enterprise 2.0 Conference Vendors and PR Reps
• Enteprise 2.0 Conference -- Complimentary Pass
• Single-Market Madness
• Colorful Umbrellas
• Seeking Failure Stories
• Lunch with Arn Howitt (When Failure is NOT an Option)
• Nibbles, Not Bites
• Failure Inspiration
• Enterprise 2.0 Conference -- Boston
• "IT Project = Change Management Program"
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• Dilbert on Project Management Reporting
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• Microsoft has Balls (Sapphire, Vienna)
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• My Laptop Was Stolen (Sapphire, Vienna)
• More on Simplification at SAP (Sapphire Vienna)
• Mixed Media (Sapphire, Vienna)
• "Custom Code Over My Dead Body" (Sapphire, Vienna)
• Enterprise SOA and Viennese Coffee (Sapphire, Vienna)
• SOA and the SAP Mid-Market (Sapphire, Vienna)
• Sapphire Vienna
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• "Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success"
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• PeopleSoft - 70% Disappointment in Oracle Services
• Productized Services - AT Kearny
• SAP Productized Services
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• More on Productized Consulting Services
• Don't Be Mad, Just Leave
• "Reckless"
• Implementation Success!
• Productized Consulting Services
• Reducing Implementation Costs
• Ten Steps from Doom
• Giant Steps
• Open Source ERP: Training Doesn't Matter??
• Consultant Addiction
• UK Health Program: a Very Sick Patient
• Implementation and Consultants
• Election Troubles
• BOOK REVIEW: Race Through the Forest
• Taxing Problems
• Gasp! Military Cost Over-Runs
• Free Medicare Money! Oops, not so fast.
• Shuttle of Death (and Rebirth)
• Open Source Fiasco
• “7 Ways to Fail in an ERP Selection”
• Failed Project Facts
• Government Regulation of IT Projects?
• Drip, Drip, Drip: Down the Drain
• Australian Cargo
• INTERVIEW: Michael Gonnerman on ROI
• "Greatest IT Disaster in History"
• When Friends Disagree
• Overdue Books
• INTERVIEW: Lydia Segal on Government Waste and Corruption
• Knowing When to Quit
• Throwing Good Money After Bad?
• INTERVIEW: Karen Lojeski on Virtual Distance
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• INTERVIEW: Barry J. Brunetto on Taming a Wild Vendor
• Crossed Wires
• Bigger and Bigger Secrets
• INTERVIEW: Matthew Leitch on Denial and Risk
• Annoucement: Wednesday Interview Series
• Big Secrets or Big Lies?
• In an Emergency...
• The Early Bird...
• Separation Anxiety
• Good Advice
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• Alignment and its Discontents
• Fast or Slow?
• Seeking Failures
• Medical Emergency
• Sometimes the Obvious Needs to be Stated
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects
• Stating the Obvious?
• Toasting Russia
• Running, Running, Running
• Virtual Distance Drives Risk
• Software as a Service
• Alive and Kicking
• Success Factors
• Let My Bunnies Go
• In the Land of the Quakers
• Hope Springs Eternal
• The High Cost of Failure
• Poor, Poor FBI