Too many projects? Not sure which projects are most important? Welcome to project portfolio management.

The Internet and advances in information and communication technology (ICT) offer many new opportunities, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to leverage their business. The hard reality is, however, that many SMEs across the world are not recognizing and realizing these opportunities, and are not aware of the threats they face in the new economy, which are listed here:

One of my favorite scenes from the old Star Wars movie was Obi-Wan Kenobi's sixth-sense recognition that one of the rebel planets has been completely obliterated by Darth Vader's sinister "death star." With profound sorrow and sadness,

A recent study from Cutter Consortium's e-Project Management Advisory Service looked at how much voluntary overtime developers were working. It found that companies that had developers working more than 10 hours per week in voluntary overtime suffered in a number of areas when compared to companies that did not have developers working more than 10 hours per week.

I've been rather amused by the number of Y2K-related e-mail messages I've received since 11 September -- though I dearly wish that the events that prompted those messages had never occurred.

In one form or another, computing people have always worked in teams. As a result, the implementation of self-managing teams into computing groups should be easy, but, as Larry Constantine has noted, putting a bunch of computer people together and calling them a team does not make them a team.

As I was sitting down to write this month's commentary, an e-mail appeared on my PC. It was Rob Austin's 19 September 2001 Business-IT Strategies E-Mail Advisor on the dangers of a pure profit-maximizing mentality in outsourcing decisions.