
80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure
There seems to be a rush of IT failure topics these days, all trying to find the Holy Grail of project failure. While I hold that this is a world of AND and AND, not OR and OR, I do see a major cause for project failure for the last decade: shifting from serial processing […]

Enterprise microblogging should be pay-per-use
An article by Dennis Howlett about Socialtext and Yammer yesterday caught my attention. In essence SocialText announces that they’ll sell their product at 80% of Yammer’s price (being very brief here) but I think they’re both wrong. Social has its own Pareto rule: 90-9-1 versus the old-fashioned 80-20. It means that 1% of people creates […]