IT Governance releases BugBox

According to many independent surveys, IT project failure is endemic - with a recent study by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association of 400 UK IT professionals finding nearly half of IT projects never make it to full implementation because of a failure to deliver, says PRWeb.

Furthermore, according to a 2003 KPMG survey, between 5% and 15% of projects fail because they're of a host of unresolved issues and bugs, many of which, though minor, have to be resolved before end-users will sign the project off as complete.

To help companies meet these challenges, independent UK compliance company IT Governance has released BugBox (www.bugbox.biz), an issue management and project manager support aid. BugBox can be used with a variety of project management methodologies, including UK Government standard PRINCE2, providing the manager with a way to input and manage issues ('bugs') and see proposed solutions, such as ownership, planned actions and revised completion dates, in a straightforward manner.

Project and portfolio management software, once limited to basic scheduling and resource planning, is becoming a cornerstone technology in business process/workflow management, collaboration and application lifecycle management, states CRN.

Some of the leading vendors in the market rely on direct sales more than the channel while some of the newer entrants in this market are looking for channel partners to provide implementation and consulting services.

Microsoft, which already has some 700 channel partners that work with Microsoft Office Enterprise Project, hopes to recruit resellers of its fast-selling SharePoint collaboration and communications platform to add project management to their technology offerings.

According to ITPro, Ink manufacturer Sun Chemical has implemented new project and portfolio management software across 20 sites in Europe and North America.

With a turnover of $3.5 billion (£1.72 billion), Sun Chemical has consolidated its management of diverse projects and portfolios on a single, centralised system, eliminating a variety of non-integrated, management systems across different sites, including some that were paper and spreadsheet-based.

Sun Chemical has implemented a customised global project and portfolio management system, based on GenSight Enterprise Portfolio Management 7.0 to capture research and development project information and business data accessible by appropriate technical and multifunctional European and North America staff.