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Spotted in Computing:

Nearly a third of managers experience IT project failure rates of between 41 and 70 per cent, according to research by Accenture.

In a survey of 300 executives, 35 per cent of business managers and 27 per cent of IT managers admitted to IT project failures between these levels.

But of these executives, only 17 per cent (for both business managers and IT managers) consider the alignment of business and IT goals in their companies to be ’strong’ or ‘totally aligned’, the survey found.

Full article here.

You’ve probably got to be British to understand, but The Archers is a radio-based soap opera produced by the BBC that enjoys cult status in the UK and further afield. So much so, that the fan club is called Archers Addicts – and the name is not an understatement. They make Trekkies look positively amateur.

For a long while, it’s been possible to get a synopsis of the previous episode by email every day (and in fact you can also listen to it online as well). While that’s great, it’s annoyed me in a niggling low-grade way for a long time that there’s no equivalent RSS feed – email’s just so, well, 20th century.

Well, now there is. In a coding frenzy (alright, configuring a Wordpress blog) I have created The Archers RSS Feed – available in a news aggregator right now. It’s probably going to get me a cease-and-desist from the BBC, but hey – seek not permission, seek forgiveness – as the old saying goes.

Technically it’s a bit ropey, scraping the email and converting it into a blog post; but it works, and I’ll no doubt get around to making it a bit more funky in the next few days. A tip of the hat to John Blade, who coded an enhanced email-to-Wordpress module which I’ve ripped off mercilessly.