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Welcome to the home of GDS on the Web. GDS is an IT services and consulting company. Led by Stewart Baird, GDS has focus on software development in the Microsoft product-space. From Web to Windows GDS has it covered.GDS uses their own tailored development process (gdx) to ensure quality of delivery. gdx is a flexible framework that builds on approaches such as XP, User Interaction and other Agile methods.
News Flash
Stewart Baird is now writing a new book "Lessons From Stalingrad", where he extracts software development lessons from history's most horrendous battle.How To Fail Your Next Project
When good projects go bad...Have you read or noticed how many IT projects fail? They fail in all kinds of ways; budget blowouts; failure to achieve the business goals; lack of business uptake or just plain old crummy software.
I have to admit that I’ve been on board on some “Titanic” projects myself; they could not possibly fail and yet we all ended up scrambling for the life rafts. I started to jot down a list of reasons I could see for project failure. I guess I could have been scribbling disaster reasons until they closed the café...
Read Stewart Baird's article on InformIT or right here.
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