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Avoiding IT Disasters

Posted November 20, 2001 | Leadership | Technology | Amplify

This seems to be the year for disasters. In the last three months, in addition to the September 11 disaster, I've seem three very large IT projects cancelled after the expenditure of considerable sums of money. One was in excess of US $50 million -- an ambitious Web project whose managers did not think it necessary to include performance modeling in the design.

About The Author
Don Estes
Don Estes is President of Don Estes & Associates. He has served as Editor of the Cutter IT Journal and as a speaker at Cutter Summits. He has more than 35 years experience in IT, more than half of which has been focused on managing the business and technical risks in the modernization of legacy applications and their integration with new technology. His writings have brought both a theoretical and a practical view to extracting the value… Read More
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