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Irish Government with Project Management in mind

October 29, 2004

This week the Irish Minister for Transport acknowledged that project management is essencial for improving the productivity of the state. J  Read More →

Project Management Pitfalls

October 24, 2004

Project Magazine published a PCI study that tries to assess project success and failure rates both within corporations and across Project Management Institute chapters. The main focus of the study is on "Do Senior Managers and Corporate Culture Support,... Read more...

Agile Software Development

October 22, 2004

AgileAlliance published in 2001 a manifesto with the principles that all software development projects should use. In the meantime a current is emerging that states that PMI principles and the agile Project Management are in some way incompatible. What... Read more...

25,000 hits and one year

October 21, 2004

I just topped 25,000 cumulative hits today, and the one year anniversary a few days back. Thanks for all of your interest. That's an average of 500 hits a week, not bad for an unsponsored, part-time steam outlet. Keep in touch, Charlie Read More →

Excellent Holton/Alloo article on IT tooling

October 21, 2004

Comprehensive, cross-functional overview reflecting good insight into the confusing IT tools market and how it is evolving: http://www.ftponline.com/special/opsmgmt/overview/default.asp Kudos to authors Glenn Helton and Page Alloo. -ctb Read More →

CMDB Chaos and Confusion: Making Sense of the Madness

October 21, 2004

(Updated this post 10/29/2004, as it is getting so much attention.) The ITIL concept of the Configuration Management Database has provoked great confusion in enterprise IT circles. Research firms are weighing in, the trade press is trying to make sense... Read more...

Project Management

October 16, 2004

Hi all, This is the first post of a blog with the goal of discussing and exchange ideas about this very broad topic. Hope you enjoy, J  Read More →

Terry Moriarty saw it coming

October 6, 2004

Credit where due - Terry Moriarty in this 1998 article asserted that the metadata repository is the data store for configuration management. -Charlie Read More →

ADML: A good idea come and gone too soon?

October 5, 2004

I only found out about ADML, the Architecture Description Modeling Language, over lunch the other day with a friend involved in the Open Group. Haven't dug into it, but my friend said it was moribund -- too darn bad, if true. -ctb Read More →

Some notes on ITMSF USA 2004

October 4, 2004

I attended the IT Service Management Forum USA Conference & Expo 2004 in Long Beach, California last week, taking in three full days of conference sessions, vendor presentations, and keynotes. It was a good conference; interesting presentations and... Read more...