Blog Archive - December 2013

Written by Vanessa Turke on December 31, 2013
We are right to be worried about budget. Multiple studies justify our concerns: In 2004, the Standish Group reported that 71% of IT projects were over budget, while University of Oxford researchers found that large IT projects run 45% over budget, and an article in the Harvard Business Review in...
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Written by Vanessa Turke on December 20, 2013
Where do web projects come from? This used to be something you just didn’t talk about in mixed company. Sometimes a website would slip away - claiming to be visiting a great aunt or working at an overseas mission - and return looking ‘refreshed’, revived and… well, simply...
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Written by Vanessa Turke on December 4, 2013
Who is reading your project’s pace notes?  Why it’s best to have a project manager on every build. Custom application and website development is a creative, complex process with lots of twists and turns. While it’s easy to imagine that one wouldn’t hire a handyman to build a skyscraper, it...
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