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• Anonymising project TOR issues update after server breach

  The TOR Project is advising users to upgrade to a new version of the software following a hack that compromised three of its servers.

• IT’s law of frustration strikes every time

  The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy is neither created nor destroyed; it is simply converted from one form to another.

• Every project fails somewhere: manager

  What percentage of IT projects fail? At InfoWorld’s recent SOA Executive Forum in New York, an attendee asked a group of panelists to estimate their success rate on projects. Specifically, he wanted to know how many of their IT initiatives had “failed on any level”.

• Tools can’t take politics out of project selection

  A few years ago, when portfolio management software and techniques first came into vogue, many IT executives remarked on how the tools would remove politics from IT project prioritisation debates. They envisioned IT steering committees that would objectively rank the value of proposals by calculating their expected return on investment, strategic impact and other quantifiable criteria.

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