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100	1		_aPELED, Alon _98237
245	1	0	_aThe electronic mountain : _ba tale of two tels
260			_aThousand Oaks, CA : _bSage Publication, _cDecember 2007
520	3		_aFederal computer projects frequently fail because federal organizations are mandated to follow an erroneous Enterprise Architecture (EA) metaphor. The article promotes an alternative metaphor that highlights the principles of incremental evolution, learning, exploration and slow adaptation, experimentation, and minimal architecture. To advance this approach, the archaeological history of excavating the oldest man-made mountain (Tel Gezer where 28 ancient civilizations are layered one on top of the other) is compared with the history of modernizing the latest man-made mountain (the Internal Revenue Service's main computer systems where numerous generations of computer programs are layered one on top of the other). Through this most unusual "comparative tale," the article also exposes the human characteristics of successful federal information technology project leaders: humility, curiosity, and patience
773	0	8	_tThe American Review of Public Administration _g37, 4, p. 458-478 _dThousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publication, December 2007 _xISSN 02750740 _w
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998			_a20080128 _b1545^b _cTiago
998			_a20081111 _b1503^b _cZailton
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c25569 _d25569
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