Reining in IT

摘要

Effective IT governance improves your ability to deliver software that meets your stakeholders' needs; without it, your team may go rogue and ignore management's directives In the corporate world, governance has gained greater visibility over the past few years. The Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act has forced U.S. companies to improve their approach to financial governance, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has spurred similar changes in employee health management. Attention is now turning toward IT—and rightly so, considering the Y2K fiasco, the dot-com meltdown and our high rate of project failure.