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Section III: Software Projects: the Good, the Bad and the Pitiful 115 commonly, they do not have the experience to identify where the real knowledge about business requirements and processes lies. In other words, they never penetrate the fog of misperception that exists in every large company. At an intellectual level, it is obvious that IT initiatives have to be fit for purpose, but emotionally, there is always the siren voice saying 'This time it will be different, we can evolve prototypes and elicit the full requirements along the way; we can re-engineer business processes, rather than to fit with the existing ones.' It never is different. Sadly, history just goes on repeating itself.
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iv Clinging to the Flotsam. A Survi
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Introduction During my career as an
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10 Training Your IT Manager The DBA
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12 Training Your IT Manager Section
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16 Training Your IT Manager it. Per
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18 Training Your IT Manager Of cour
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20 The Septic Tank Miscellaneous el
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The Yancey Men First published 03 O
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Section I: On Learning to Love your
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36 Betting on Promotion At one stag
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38 Betting on Promotion could at le
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40 How to Prevent Initiatives that
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42 How to Prevent Initiatives Guys,
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Irregular verbs for IT managers Fir
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52 Initiating a project with a Stra
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Looking Busy First published 23 Nov
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60 Doing things - The Manual Do som
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62 The Incident of 'The Two Johns'
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184 IT Agencies and the Devil incor
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186 IT Agencies and the Devil Harve
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188 The Stepford Geeks process of '
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208 The March of Time Things weren'
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214 The Whipping Boy customers but
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234 Had offshoring been responsible
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282 The Ballad of the Tuple Relatio
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284 Common Law, and the Need for Re
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