Don't know why, but I got the idea for this cartoon during reading "Telltale signs of SOA governance deficit" by Joe McKendrick.
One Year In A IT Project - Day 24
See Joe McKendrick about "Explaining SOA failure to the boss".
One Year In A IT Project - Day 23
One Year In A IT Project - Day 22
Btw.: Sorry, I forgot blog day. The blog I recommend is a German blog: Kolumnist des Jahres.
If you can read German, read this blog!!! It's really funny.
(Disclaimer: It's my brother)
One Year In A IT Project - Day 22
See Joe McKendrick and low expectations (thank you Joe for pointing to my cartoon!).
One Year In A IT Project - Day 21
One Year In A IT Project - Day 20
One Year In A IT Project - Day 19
Michael Krigsman blogs about 12 characteristics of doomed projects.
Here's one characteristic of a project in good shape.
One Year In A IT Project - Day 18
One Year In A IT Project - Day 17
See Michael Krigsman about 5 ways tp prevent IT failure.
The 5th way:
"Scope creep. Lack of preparation typically begets the kitchen-sink syndrome, where project leaders add in every kind of feature and the kitchen sink to boot."
Maybe sometimes you want some scope creep:
Working in a IT project is exciting.
But who likes roll-outs? Annoying customer calls and the boring maintenance phase starts.
Why don't postpone this to the infinity?
One Year In A IT Project - Day 16
(Update 2008-04-16: I scheduled this post for April 17th, but have posted it today (April 16th). The date is nevertheless April 17th. It seems to be a bug in Moveable Type.)