Friday, January 6, 2012

Web Short: The Relationship Between IT Project Size and Failure

Large IT projects have bigger budgets than small projects. They also have more formal approaches to tracking milestones and budgets. Does this make them more likely to succeed? It turns out that there is a relationship between the cost of a project and the chances that that project will succeed, but it isn't what you might think.

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Web Short: The Mathematics of Cloud Optimization

How do you minimize the cost of running your large mission critical application on a public cloud? Do you focus on finding a low cost cloud provider? It turns out that the answer to cost reduction may be closer than you think. And it starts by understanding the mathematics around Cloud optimization.

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Web Short: SIP Methodology for Project Optimization

IT Methodologies such as TOGAF, Zachman, FEAF, RUP, and Agile are all important tools for the enterprise and software architect. But it turns out that all of these methodologies share a common limitation: they don't scale. Each of these works well for projects less than about $1 million, but try to use any of them for projects in the $10M range, and you will find yourself in a murky land with dangers around every curve.

If you are building or maintaining a large IT system, you must start by understanding the principles of partitioning. This  Web Short gives an overview of the SIP methodology, the only methodology focused exclusively on the issue of partitioning. SIP doesn't compete with these existing methodologies, it completes them. SIP is the missing ingredient in scalability.

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