IT Leadership

Microsoft, the Olympics and license costs

Three Keys to Getting Your Projects Under Control, Part 1

In the first of a three-part series, CIOs frustrated by project management pitfalls in Agile methodologies and techniques like Scrum will learn to plug leaks of time and costs that threaten deliverables.

Collaboration Under SOA: The Human Aspects

This book chapter from Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect shows how Web 2.0 business concepts apply to businesses, especially those enterprises that adhere to the philosophy of SOA.

How To Make Better Decisions

Making a big decision? First ask: What have we missed? What if we do the opposite? What if we're wrong?

Improving Socitm’s business skills

BusinessWeek: SaaS and Open Source are Good for Customers … Unfortunately

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Hires IT Pros Who Can Keep Up With Doctors’ Ever-Changing Needs

In this latest Hiring Manager interview, the CIO of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center discusses what it takes for IT staff to succeed in his organization, how he makes hiring decisions and the hiring mistake he repeatedly makes.

RIM BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) 4.1.6 Upgrade Addresses Critical PDF Flaw

Research In Motion (RIM) has released an upgrade to its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software that fixes a previously disclosed vulnerability and provides new e-mail and calendaring functionality for administrators and corporate smartphone user

Everyone Works at Home at Chorus, Part Three

In this story, the third of three parts, managers and staff at a small software company adjust to telecommuting and share their keys to success. Part One focused on the network infrastructure. Part Two covered work at home policies.

The Man Behind MasterCard’s 100 Terabyte Data Warehouse

MasterCard's head of global technology, Rob Reeg, talks about his new job, MasterCard's massive data warehouse, just how fast credit-card transactions really fly and his personal experience with credit-card fraud.