Now, I like the holidays. I particularly like the guiltless gluttony of Thanksgiving with its too much food and too much football, but then comes December, and for CIOs, December is a mixed blessing.
Years wrap up with accomplishments noted and failures carefully catalogued.
We dust ourselves off after yet another WWF-style budget slamathon and consider our prospects for a coming year, complete with too many projects and too little money. And these, by most measures, are the good times. The year 2000 was a tough year. It started out well enough. Most IT organizations did such a spectacular job correcting their Y2K problems that most people now believe there must not have been a problem to begin with.