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Verification & Validation to Avoid E&O Claims
People sometimes use the words verification and validation interchangeably (and often abbreviate them to V&V), but while they can both help you avoid errors and omissions lawsuits, there are key...
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Free Downloadable Online Project Management Tools and Templates
Project Management TemplatesBelow are a series of articles and templates developed by Karl Wiegers (a noted project management guru) that may be helpful. These online downloadable documents are...
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Management Consultants: Take Control of Scope Creep
Often management consultants are hired to accomplish a specific goal, but before the engagement is complete, the project's scope has expanded to include more than you or the client bargained for....
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Change-Control Process Reduces IT Project Surprises and Delays
Scope changes are so common in IT projects that many IT project managers have learned to expect them and simply take them in stride. But there's no reason to let "project scope creep" slow your...
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Ongoing Quality Testing Cuts IT Project Management Risks
Because risk management and IT project management go hand-in-hand, experienced IT project managers never start a project without a risk-management strategy in mind. Often, at the heart of that strategy...
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Quality Assurance Lowers Software and Systems Integration Project Risks
Like any professional service, engineering and integrating software systems carries some risk. A minor miscalculation in a line of code can bring down an entire system, causing your client to lose time...
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What Developers Can Learn from Obamacare's Website Problems
The recent struggles of HealthCare.gov’s insurance exchanges highlight important liability concerns for web developers and IT professionals.To better understand the liabilities web developers face,...
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IT Risk Management Strategy: Deadlines and Software Testing
Sticking to deadlines and meeting software-testing milestones are important for software developers who want to limit their liability and prevent lawsuits. In this article, we'll answer the following...
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Verification & Validation to Avoid E&O Claims
People sometimes use the words verification and validation interchangeably (and often abbreviate them to V&V), but while they can both help you avoid errors and omissions lawsuits, there are key...
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Why the HealthCare.gov Debacle Is Good for IT Pros
As an IT professional, when you tell people what you do for a living, you probably get two responses: either their eyes glaze over, or they ask if you can fix their printer. The second you start...
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Common IT Errors and Omissions that Trigger Lawsuits
In the same way that doctors have Malpractice Insurance, IT companies can purchase Professional Liability Insurance (often called Errors & Omissions, or E and O Insurance), which protects them from...
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The Million-Dollar Client Conversation
Wouldn't it be great if there were a simple way to reduce the likelihood and cost of a data breach? Well, there is. Simply having a conversation can fix many of the misconceptions employees and clients...
View ArticleOngoing Quality Testing Cuts IT Project Management Risks
Because risk management and IT project management go hand-in-hand, experienced IT project managers never start a project without a risk-management strategy in mind. Often, at the heart of that strategy...
View ArticleQuality Assurance Lowers Software and Systems Integration Project Risks
Like any professional service, engineering and integrating software systems carries some risk. A minor miscalculation in a line of code can bring down an entire system, causing your client to lose time...
View ArticleOngoing Quality Testing Cuts IT Project Management Risks
Because risk management and IT project management go hand-in-hand, experienced IT project managers never start a project without a risk-management strategy in mind. Often, at the heart of that strategy...
View ArticleQuality Assurance Lowers Software and Systems Integration Project Risks
Like any professional service, engineering and integrating software systems carries some risk. A minor miscalculation in a line of code can bring down an entire system, causing your client to lose time...
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Adobe Update Part 2: A Look at Professional Liability for Software Developers
The backstory behind Adobe's latest patch shows hazards that all software and app developers face. According to a ThreatPost article, Adobe was about to release updates to its Reader and Acrobat...
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When Software Design is a Matter of Life and Death
Believe it or not, in the middle of all the panic over the first Ebola cases in the U.S., there was actually a question of IT liability. According to Bloomberg News, the Dallas-area hospital's software...
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What Developers Can Learn from Obamacare's Website Problems
The recent struggles of HealthCare.gov’s insurance exchanges highlight important liability concerns for web developers and IT professionals.To better understand the liabilities web developers face,...
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IT Risk Management Strategy: Deadlines and Software Testing
Sticking to deadlines and meeting software-testing milestones are important for software developers who want to limit their liability and prevent lawsuits. In this article, we'll answer the following...
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