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Scrum Project Management Approach
So you convinced your management to give you money for your modernization project? Now you will need to deliver! How do you make this happen? When you read the article written by Paul Conte about the 'Top 10 reasons application modernization projects fail' you see...
Top Ten Reasons Application Modernization Projects Fail
Guest Blogger: Paul Conte, President PCES, is a leading Application Development Strategist Are we done yet? With “modernizing” our applications, that is? It seems so long ago that someone came up with the clever concept of application “modernization” as a response to...
Why Using an Application Framework like the VLF should be a No Brainer
Frameworks are everywhere. They are available for almost every part of software development and frameworks are not exclusive to the IT industry. Medicine, banking and insurance all have risk assessment frameworks. Education uses learning frameworks, companies are...
The Rise of the Tech Savvy User (and the case for Business Process Integration – Part Two)
Oscar Wilde once said, “It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” The year was 1894. If only he was alive today to witness a civilization now firmly addicted to data. Studies from UCSD (University of California San Diego) state...
Successful Application Rollout Strategies – If you build it, will they come?
In prior posts, we’ve reviewed some ideas on ROI-based justification for project initiatives, how to scope a project, and some modern tools for managing a project. But, my thoughts now turn to the 1989 movie Field of Dreams – if you build it, will they come? You’re...
Supplying the Flip side – The Case for a Supplier Portal
eCommerce… the opportunity to promote and sell your products online to customers; enabling them to check their order and shipping status, review their account details, and more. The potential benefits are easy to identify: better customer service, reduced...
Risk, Innovation and Cost Considerations
In the current economic climate we’re all being asked to go back to our parents generation and ‘make do and mend’. Even with the supposed green shoots of recovery being discussed by our political leaders, it’s hard to see how the large capital expenditure projects...
iPulse 2010 Survey Results
The iPulse 2010 Survey, organized by LANSA, ran during September 2010 and was promoted to the global IBM i community via email, social media and publicized by all the leading industry media outlets like Intelligencer Magazine, IT Jungle, CIO Magazine and System...
Six Steps for Successful Application Modernization
Guest Blogger: Mike Otey, Senior Technical Editor for System iNEWS magazine The IBM i is a highly successfully and ultra-reliable computing platform that’s in use in all kinds of businesses world-wide from order-entry, human resources, and education through inventory...
Project Health Check Review
If you've been working on a project with my Services team this year, you may have already experienced a new milestone that we introduced into our project delivery methodology - the "Health Check" review. I'd like to share some of our thoughts behind introducing this...
The Information Explosion (and the case for Business Process Integration)
Rollin Ford, Wal-Mart’s CIO, earlier this year stated “Every day I wake up and ask….how can I flow data better, manage data better, analyze data better”. Not surprising when you consider that Wal-Mart processes over 1 million client business transactions every hour...
How to Justify Application Modernization to your CFO – Episode 2
In our last episode, our hero (you, of course) was preparing to make an ROI-powered business case for Application Modernization to your CFO. We covered your current resources, your goals, and steps 1-4 in the process. This episode unveils Step 5 – Conducting a...