Friday’s Top 5

Software Project Failure: The Reasons, The Costs – When a major software project fails, the results can be devastating to an organization. This article uses economic criterion to define what it means for a project to fail and examines common traps that contribute to or accelerate project failure.

Effective Project Management, ITIL and BSM – It’s complicated but, taken together, these three could decrease IT budgets by 70%, writes CIOUpdate columnist Hank Marquis of Enterprise Management Associates.

Project Management Best Practices: An Introduction to COBIT –

In this sixth and final part of our project management series CIOUpdate guest columnists Haydn Thomas and Julie Tilke of CA explain the value of COBIT and similar IT management methodologies have for project management and IT in general.

ITIL v3: Bridging the Gap Between IT and Business – v3 builds on v2 greatly expanding its usefulness and helping CIOs make the leap to business strategist, writes CIOUpdate guest columnists Augusto Perazzo and Glen Willis of PA Consulting.

Project Management Best Practices: An Introduction to PMBOK & PRINCE 2 – CIOUpdate guest columnists Haydn Thomas and Julie Tilke of CA lay out the basics of the two most recognized PM best practices guidelines in use today, as part of this six-part series on the project management.