Why It Projects Fail

the go. The new touch screen tablet called iPad was officially launched in January 2010 by the executive chief from Apple Company, Steve Jobs, who described the device as a “third category”, once it is a product situated between smart phones and laptops (BBC News, 2010). To analyze the iPad’s market, it requires the ability to predict how exogenous factors might shift the demand in the future (Braeutigam, 2002). 1.1 Wants and Needs. People who purchase iPads are looking for a high…

to hero with pfSense May 13, 2008 Chris Buechler Scott Ullrich History of pfSense Started as a work project 13 years ago when we needed a internal firewall Originally Linux, switched to FreeBSD 2.2 Evolution of this path shrunk the firewall down to a Soekris size Moatware was started Met Chris Buechler during this time Sell a number of products Sales guy moves to Florida Moatware fails Chris and myself debate starting over fresh pfSense is forked from m0n0wall roughly 4 years ago…

Jeroen Pluimers, Jan Goyvaerts, Jeremy North, Marco Breveglieri Cover Designer: Fabrizio Schiavi Copyright 2008 Marco Cantù, Piacenza, Italy. World rights reserved. The author created example code in this publication expressly for the free use by its readers. The source code for this book is copyrighted freeware, distributed via the web site http://www.marcocantu.com. The copyright prevents you from republishing the code in print media without permission. Readers are granted limited…

succeeds in this endeavour. I argue that, despite certain weaknesses, Mearsheimer's theoretical and empirical work represents an important addition to Waltz's theory. Mearsheimer's work is remarkably clear and consistent and provides compelling answers to why, tragically, aggressive state strategies are a rational answer to life in the international system. Furthermore, Mearsheimer makes important additions to structural alliance theory and offers new important insights into the role of…

always look forward to reading whatever Kathy writes—she's one of my favorite authors." —Paul Wheaton, Trail Boss JavaRanch.com "Who better to write a Java study guide than Kathy Sierra, the reigning queen of Java instruction? Kathy Sierra has done it again—here is a study guide that almost guarantees you a certification!" —James Cubeta, Systems Engineer, SGI "The thing I appreciate most about Kathy is her quest to make us all remember that we are teaching people and not just lecturing…

behaving badly? Here’s how to squash negativity before it gets out of control. By David Whitemyer 50 On the Right Track determine if Before condensing a schedule, a project is ready for the fast lane—or risk wrecking the whole thing. By Peter Fretty 56 Matchmakersprojects and personnel means Pairing the right balancing soft skills, technical knowledge and experience. By Steve Hendershot 62 Winning the Complexity Battle 2012 PMI PROJECT OF THE YEAR AWARD FINALISTS By…

companies often complain about the difficulties they face in meeting their customers’ logistic requirements. Many blame the perceived inadequacies of their production planning and control (PPC) software for their performance deficits. The paper illustrates why this is only a partial view of the causes of the shortcomings. PPC software is just one of six configuration aspects of the entire PPC system. The authors argue that the configuration of the PPC aspects objectives, processes, objects,…

Business Plan for a Startup Business The business plan consists of a narrative and several financial worksheets. The narrative template is the body of the business plan. It contains more than 150 questions divided into several sections. Work through the sections in any order that you want, except for the Executive Summary, which should be done last. Skip any questions that do not apply to your type of business. When you are finished writing your first draft, you’ll have a collection of…

ITSY/048 IBS Center for Management Research Knowledge Management Practices at Toyota Motors This case was written by N. Ruchi Chaturvedi, under the direction of Sanjib Dutta, IBS Center for Management Research. It was compiled from published sources, and is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. 2005, IBS…

Single Threaded Applications SPECint2000 SPECfp2000 B. Multi‐Threaded Applications SPECint_rate2000 SPECfp_rate2000 2. Does the application have a benchmark already as‐ sociated with it? If the application already has a legitimate benchmark test associated with it, these results may provide the closest picture to what the user can expect: A. Database Applications (i.e., Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server) TPC‐C (OLTP) TPC‐H (Decision…