CTO CONNECTION: What does it all mean?

Project management won't help you achieve your technical goals if your team doesn't get what it means

ON THESE PAGES you often read about the latest tools and approaches IT leaders should use to help their companies achieve stated business goals.

In my role as CTO of InfoWorld, I am a voracious consumer of this information. The constant change in the IT world creates new challenges for people such as myself every day. Although I have never met a bored CTO, I have met a few frustrated ones. Most of the time the frustration has very little to do with the state of technology and more to do with the project management practices -- or lack thereof -- at their …