Following on from our previous post linking to a great article on “How to Survive Technical Due Diligence“, here’s an equally good, and equally detailed, set of posts from Mike Dunn, VP at Hearst Interactive Media covering his methodology for performing technical due diligence in the digital media industry.

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We spend a lot of time reading about current thinking in tech diligence, so this is unlikely to be the last addition to our previously posted list of interesting articles about technology due diligence.

Today’s addition is an impressively detailed set of articles about DD in the IT industry from Michael Sisco, a CIO with vast experience.

The index of all the installments doesn’t seem to appear until the final article, so here’s a full set of links for the entire series:

• The art of technology due diligence
• Preparing for IT due diligence
• IT due diligence: The on-site discovery visit
• Write an effective IT due diligence report
• Three rules for successful staff assimilation in an acquisition
• Strategy is critical for melding technology during acquisitions
• Measuring the results of an acquisition