Best of the blogs: An interesting discussion is brewing at Bob Lewis’ blog about what it takes to succeed in IT and business alike. The heart of the debate is whether architecture is more important to a company’s success than good people. A reader wrote in to Lewis: “IT departments are to blame – they’ve lost credibility with management for failing to deliver time and time again.” Lewis responds with a “yeahbut.” Quoteworthy: “AOL’s business model is based on one thing — people use their credit cards a lot — and people are generally lazy. They have automatic bill payment set up for their credit card(s) and rarely look at the charges.” — From Ed Foster’s Gripe Line, Reader voices: AOL cancellations. Government sector: US government IPv6 testing must go on, Intel and partners CheckPoint, Cisco, Dell and IBM back municipal Wi-Fi with Digital Communities Initiative, and the German government embarks on a nationwide IT security plan. Special Report: Worried that your own IT department might be in trouble credibility-wise? IT is a business, run it like one offers up advice on ways to know what assets you have and the best tactics for managing those. A companion piece, The next step: IT portfolio management, adds advice on how to make more rational decisions, communicate better, create greater visibility into IT processes, all of which can help you avoid the “massive scope creep and the difficulty of accurate time estimation,” too often associated with IT projects. Technology Industry