The sins of IT projects and why they fail (sometimes)

Tuesday 2 March 2010, 6.30PM

Speaker: Maurice Perks, IBM Fellow

In this lecture IBM Fellow Maurice Perks will relate some of the technical IT experiences that he has encountered during forty years of dealing with complex IT projects within large enterprises that cover finance, manufacturing and government industry sectors. He will focus on why IT projects, especially large ones, can have a high risk of failure due to a number of technical factors and how there are recurring themes.

Location: Room P/L001, Physics

Admission: Admission is free and open to all

Email: publiclectures@york.ac.uk

Telephone: 01904 432622