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Robert Benjamin

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The Protective Collective Inertia of Failed IT Projects

Most projects do not fail because of bad business cases, poorly defined requirements, or inadequate testing.These are all symptoms that turn up at the project level. Project failures along with failed software process improvement initiatives, reflect a fundamental failure of "tone at the top." Often a Collective Protective Inertia Syndrome and other organizational pathologies control how decisions, including project governance decisions, are made.

Can Configuration Management Defend You Against Information Asymmetry?Information Asymmetry is what happens when one party to a transaction has more relevant information than the other, and doesn't share it. Configuration management, done right, has the power to eliminate asymmetry, or at the very least - lessen its impact on projects.