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Will We Ever Learn?

17 March 2010, 1:10 am

Anyone involved in IT project management will probably have had the misfortune to have been involved in or to have known a project that failed. Careers can be destroyed; recriminations fly; blame is apportioned by everyone to everyone else; relationships break down; trust is damaged, and people who were friends become strangers. That’s the human side, which is often ignored in the dynamics of projects. If organisations know the causes of project failure – people, technology, project management – then why don’t they learn the lessons so that they don’t fail again in future?

Filed under Project Management. Tagged benefit, Budget Management, change, change management, Comptroller and Auditor general, computer, Computing, Forrester Research, gartner, IDC, Information Technology, Ireland, IT, IT testing, KPMG, outcome, Ovum, programme management, Project, Project failure, Project Management, PWC, Requirements Definition, scope management, software, software testing, stakeholder, Standish Group, team work, vendor

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ActiveWords Makes Life Simpler On The Desktop

13 July 2009, 9:37 pm

ActiveWords, is a computer desktop productivity tool that automates many common activities that users perform every day.

Filed under Software. Tagged Active Words, ActiveWords, automation, Buzz Bruggeman, computer, desktop, editor, folder, google, Internet, logs, MSN, Outlook, productivity, program, programme, Skype, text editor, Yahoo!

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More Laptops Stolen – And This Time It’s Personal!

17 June 2009, 8:56 pm

Bord Gais Eireann reports today that four laptop computers, one of which contained customer information, were stoled from its premises in Dublin on 5 June 2009. This article discusses the main threats to information security and the steps that should be taken to combat them.

Filed under Security, Technology. Tagged Annual Report 2008, audit, availability, BGE, blog, Bord Gais Eireann, broadcast, broadcaster, civil proceedings, complain, complaint, computer, confidential, confidentiality, control, controls, criminal proceedings, customer information, customer record, data controller, data management, data management policy, data privacy, data processor, data protection, Data Protection Commissioner, data security, dismissal, Electricity Supply Board, employee, encrypt, encryption, enforce, enforcement, ESB, fine, fines, forfeiture, Garda, Garda Siochana, guideline, guidelines, information, information security, information security controls, Internet, IT department, laptop, law, laws, legislation, Media, need to know, penalties, penalty, personal information, Personal Public Service Number, Police, policy, PPSN, press release, privacy, procedure, procedures, risk assessment, risk management, risk management systems, robbery, RTE, security, security awareness, security breach, security incident, security training, Social Media, social networking, social networks, staff, steal, stolen, Storage, tape, tapes, The Big Switch, theft, top ten threats

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Laptop Theft and Data Loss By Irish Health Service Executive

16 June 2009, 10:39 pm

The theft of 15 laptop computers from the Irish Health Service Executive once again raises the issues of data security and management and the protection of personal private information.

Filed under Security. Tagged accessibility, audit, computer, confidential, confidential information, confidentiality, consultant, control, data management policy, data protection, data security, desktop, encrypt, encryption, file, Health Service Executive, HSE, information, information security, laptop, Media, personal information, policy, privacy, robbbery, Roscommon, RTE, security, state agencies, state agency, steal, stolen, Storage, theft

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