NZ BB Analysis before 16/9

Posted by chiefworker on 16 September 2009

Analysis of NZ Broadband before the 16/9 government announcement So, we are about to make the largest single public investment in telecommunications ever in our nation's life - $1.5 billion ? we may be wrong - still a big number ! We think this is excellent, as the Government's decision to invest $1.5 billion to bring fibre to the home (FTTH) for 75% of New Zealanders is fundamentally important to achieving our economic and social development goals. However, anyone in the least interested and informed about the issue will know that this is a very complex issue. We have been working in this field since 2001 and recently we applied our minds...

Project Success

Posted by chiefworker on 20 August 2009

In the domain of Project Management, it is important to reflect on what is meant by project success. An article on Gantthead says technically a project can be successful if the answers to the following questions is a YES: Has the project satisfied the business requirements of the primary stakeholders? Were the deliverables produced on time and within the budget (as amended by formal change control)? Do the business owners believe the project was successful? Has the project delivered the business value promised? Well, we are not convinced. We have found, that in most situations, projects have secondary stakeholders who are not...

Cloud Computing - Take One

Posted by chiefworker on 21 August 2009

It is not a fad - it is real ! The Cloud merely refers to the "net" - the catch is that the net could be inside the firewall - the corporate LAN or WAN or outside the firewall - the INTERnet The former has also been often lovingly termed the "walled garden", while the latter is often spoken as SaaS - Software as a Service or Storage in the Cloud - voila!. Enough of geek speak, let is get down to business. Let us focus on the cloud computing of the INTERnet kind. It is very simple really - it is the practice of locating your information or application...

Crowdsourcing

Posted by deepthinker on 21 August 2009

Crowdsourcing is outsourcing a task traditionally performed by employees or contractors via an open call to an undefined group of people, usually using the internet. A crowdsourcer broadcasts a problem - which may involve a design task or the capture and sifting of large amounts of information - and invites users or members of a community to submit solutions. Input from members of the crowd may be purely voluntary, or motivated by payments or prizes, while the crowdsourcer owns the best solutions. Crowdsourcing relies on electronic media - particularly Web 2.0 technologies[so-what-is-this-web-2-0-anyway/] - to coordinate input from a large, distributed community, without the need for corporate hierarchy. Online communities play a key role...