Friday, December 24, 2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Project Management and Trends

Changing or additional requirements are the leading cause of project delays, according to the results of a recent Survey Says online poll by ProjectsAtWork. Project management practitioners also cite lack of stakeholder involvement and poor communication as common reasons that projects fall behind schedule.

The September 2010 poll found that 41 percent of respondents said that “additional or changing requirements” were the No. 1 reason for project delays, followed by “lack of stakeholder involvement or knowledge” (30 percent) and “poor communication” (24 percent). Only 5 percent said “new or unfamiliar processes or technologies” were a cause for project delays.

Asked to choose the No. 2 reason for project delays, 35 percent of respondents chose changing requirements, followed by poor communication (29 percent), lack of stakeholder involvement (21 percent) and unfamiliar processes (14 percent).

Monday, December 13, 2010

Motorola Enables Enterprise Device Management

Motorola has publicly released Enterprise Device Management (EDM) APIs that address the critical need of enterprises to remotely manage email, private networks, certificates, and important data stored on SD cards. Building on the basic device management features offered in Android 2.2, these APIs allow enterprise developers to create custom Android client applications that handle remote device administration, and thereby ensure a higher level of security between device and corporate network.

The APIs are available free through the device-specific SDK add-ons for products in which the APIs are enabled, such as the add-on for Droid Pro.