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Project Management

Technology Projects Gone Wrong - Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Baseline magazine recently published an article on technology project failures that we can all learn from.

"Who Killed the Virtual Case File?" - Monday, October 15, 2007

An article posted by the IEEE discusses the difficulties the FBI has had in developing their "Virtual Case File" and other systems.

The value of project management... - Thursday, March 15, 2007

TechRepublic recently published an article titled Project management 101--the case for project management by Tom Mochal. There are many books and articles on the subject of making a case for project management, but this is a brief article that gets right to the point.

Courts Report on Technology Projects - Thursday, January 11, 2007

Thanks to our friends in our Customer Service Desk here at the NCSC we received notes about two court automation projects. First, the Delaware Judiciary reported that they have successfully completed the first phase of the implementation of their new case management system.

Mississippi Creating Court Technology Fund - Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Federal Computer Week is reporting that the Mississippi State Legislature is creating a $10 fee on civil filings to fund an "electronic court systems fund."

Just Think About IT - Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Since it is the beginning of the year, a recent article in ComputerWorld magazine is appropriate to pass along.

IT Survival Guide Article from Computerworld - Wednesday, September 01, 2004

An excellent article from a 40 year Information Technology professional was published recently in Computerworld magazine. The author, Paul Ingevaldson, currently the Chief Information Officer, has been with Ace Hardware for 25 years. He obviously knows something about how to "survive the IT jungle." Click here to read the article.

Getting to Done - Thursday, July 08, 2004

There is an excellent Computerworld magazine article posted titled "Getting to Done" by Paul Glen. This is a critical part of project management, to define success hopefully before you start your project. What is "done"? Are there degrees of "done"? If you can set achievable milestones for the project the court staff and judges can see that progress is being made. Read the article by clicking here.