Over-excitement usually results in over-engineering

I have come across a lot of situations situation where the project is having technical challenges and the customer has requested our services to detect the under-performing areas. In the era of pure JAVA-J2EE projects, mostly, the problems used to be genuine technical problems either at the design level or at the implementation level. The root cause of these problems usually manifested at technical level.

Project Portfolio Management

Organizations today have a more Project oriented focus than never before. Project Management Institute (PMI) defines the following – "A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result." Streamlining any temporary (duration could vary from 1 month to 15 years) work into a project focused mentality has the benefits of imparting mission based corporate objectives to the project team members. Also, because of a variety of reasons, primarily like targeted focus and corporate visibility, projects are very likely to achieve completion within the stipulated timelines and meeting the desired objectives.

De Ja Vu

Ever wonder why a perfectly tested product fails for at least one quality check. Why a software program designed, developed and tested by the most superior programmer still comes up with issues when tested by the User. Or why in spite having defect prevention, quality control and a perfect software development environment still engulfs a gamut of problems when similar programming is done all the time. These questions are defended by alternate ways in today's software world and treated as an enigma. Here I explain the most fascinating of the explanations.

IT Project Portfolio Optimization

It is a very typical problem faced by organizations today that IT Departments have limited IT Budgets, resources and a significantly larger number of projects to execute. Additional constraints like