This could be because there are no effective evaluation methods for these projects -- which in itself is worrying -- or because the benefits are not being realised. Managing the change in business processes and working practices that will accompany...
Paired programming, which is a central feature of the Extreme Programming methodology, involves two programmers working on the same piece of code, one checking the other's work as they go. A good example of this is Agile development, which departs...
The phenomenal success of search engines in recent years indicates just how comfortable and au fait users have become with search-driven methods on the internet. It has a strong hardware offering, including the bare-bones entry-level Mac Mini, and...
It is not necessary to adopt all of the ITIL best practices; organisations should only choose those parts of ITIL that are most relevant for their own situation. In fact, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) - a cohesive set of best practices...
Itil 'compliance', or adopting Itil's methods, should enable organisations to maintain common processes through from one technical infrastructure to another, from one vendor's tooling to another, without the need for any major changes to the...
That's changed, so that most of our clients have a strong handle on applying risk methodology and understanding when they're going to patch. But the other way to tighten up security controls is to refine your overall IT practice using service and...