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Greatest hits

June 17, 2005

For those who may be recent subscribers to this blog/email list, a little background: I started this blog as essentially a simple means to collect various thoughts that may be at some point compiled into a book. While I do the standard blogger ranting... Read more...

Looking for IBM “Yellow” books

June 15, 2005

Updated 7/17/2007: this is resolved here. ====================================== I keep hearing rumors of the legendary IBM "Yellow" books, aka the "Information Systems Management Architecture" series. Does anyone out there have... Read more...

James Governor’s blog, & CA

June 15, 2005

Liking James Governor's blog a lot. In particular he (as well as Dennis Gaughan at AMR) are pointing out that CA's acquisition of Niku is part of an ambitious program to remake CA and position it as a comprehensive ERP for IT vendor. I had heard this... Read more...

50,000 hits

June 15, 2005

50,000 hits and counting as of today.  Read More →

Federated CMDB: dimensionality is key

June 15, 2005

"Let's put all of IT's data into one database and call it a CMDB!" "Okay! Wait, this is too hard!" "Then let's keep it in several databases and call it a 'Federated CMDB'!" "Okay! That's easier! Wait - why are we... Read more...

DRB RAIL PROJECT GOES TO ARBITRATION

June 14, 2005

DRB RAIL PROJECT IN DISPUTE COURT DRB-HICOM Bhd chairman Tan Sri Dr Saleh Sulong said both the Government and the company have mutually agreed to appoint an independent claim consultant (ICC) to resolve the dispute on the variation order of the double-tracking... Read more...

Integration Competency Center, the book

June 12, 2005

Informatica has published a most excellent book (co-authored by my former boss John Schmidt) on establishing an Integration Competency Center: Press release Amazon link Addresses metadata within the context of an ICC quite comprehensively.  Read More →

CA buys Niku

June 11, 2005

Whoa, this is big and somewhat ugly: Computer Associates has purchased Niku. The reason I call it ugly is that CA has a long and deserved reputation for purchasing packages, milking the revenue, and not enhancing them. Expect a significant exodus from... Read more...

Process oriented project team

June 11, 2005

This week I was discussing the need for milestone visibility. Strange topic to be discussing, but it happened! The conversation begun as I was making a point to allow the PM tool (in this case MS Project) to calculate the milestone date based on the tasks... Read more...

Distributed configuration management: a success story

June 11, 2005

Joe, Chris, and Sue were talking over the coffee break at a local IT service management professional meeting... Joe: "Our senior leadership is all charged up about ITIL, but configuration management is killing us. We're pretty well managed in terms... Read more...

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