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Read more about John Parkinson's thoughts on technology and business at 
CIO Insight online at www.cioinsight.com
 
Recent columns:
 
Putting I.T. Appliances to Work: Unlike general-purpose computing platforms and software, appliances don't have to do everything—just a few things very well.

Business Intelligence: What Are You Thinking? A new class of software can automate the thought process and help businesspeople make critical decisions—without hurting their brains.

Hands Off My Code: The Agile Alliance embraces agile programming to the exclusion of all other methods. And that's a huge mistake.

How to Manage Application Enhancements: Most IT departments get nibbled to death by ducks. Here are John Parkinson's secrets to managing the never-ending stream of small application changes.

Four Reasons Why VoIP is a Good Call: A thorough analysis of call data reveals the maddening inefficiencies of enterprise call networks.

Six Rules for CIO Survival. How can top IT executives avoid the really big job pitfalls? Here are six tips from a former CIO.
How to Manage Corporate Innovation: Can you have too much innovation? Yes, when the company isn't prepared to handle all those good ideas.
The Ins and Outs of Benchmarking your IT Department: Who should you compare yourself to and how should you do it?
 
Real Mobility is Still a Few Years Away: Despite a deluge of gadgets and services, many of the basics still aren't reallt rthere for reliable, secure business use.
 
Why Business Schools Aren't Turning Out Good CIO Candidates
Fewer and fewer MBA candidates are signing up for MIS programs, a troubling trend for America's long-term competitiveness.

How to Fix a Failing IT Project
Everyone has had to deal with the occasional project Death March. What's the best way to fix them?

The Perils of Project Planning
What's the best way to plan for complex software development projects? Dynamically, if you can. But that doesn't make it any easier.

Estimating Software Development Projects
In the first of a three-part series on complex development projects, John Parkinson analyzes how best to estimate a project's duration and cost.