Mashups - tasty recipé or difficult to swallow?
The proliferation of “mashups” (software services created by combining disparate components into a new configuration) shows that they are becoming increasingly popular and have already entered the Enterprise domains. Some of these are not only useful but also fairly quick to develop and deploy. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. The facility of [...]
IT’s time for a paradigm shift
We regularly hear “there is no such thing as an IT project, only business initiatives.”
But we don’t need to look far to find business initiatives being managed as IT projects. The UK public sector is ripe with examples, such as the NHSpFIT, Medical Training Application Scheme (MTAS), Identity Cards, Farm Payment Scheme etc. etc.
Apart from the [...]
IT takes two to tangle - NHS and Fujitsu contract termination
It’s no surprise that the contract has broken down. I have seen so many similar situations, where the client expects the contractor to be “more flexible” (i.e. taking more risk) without recognising the need for mirroring the expected flexibility themselves (i.e. rewarding the increased risk of the contractor). The client can’t have it both ways. Â
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