An unusually good ITIL article
July 30, 2005
In Government Technology, Chad Vander Veen has written an unusually good ITIL article, covering history and context with a little more sophistication than most trade rag material. -ctb Read More →
HP CMDB report by EMA
July 30, 2005
This brief & accessible research report by Enterprise Management Associates for HP on CMDBs is a must-read. The concept of "state" they describe is something I've been mulling over for a while - how do we distinguish between complex dependency... Read more...
A chilling bulletin from the security front lines
July 30, 2005
A little out of scope for this blog - but every IT professional should be keeping up on Windows Rootkits. Hardware defenses (memory scanners, probably with their own physical jacks, which in large data centers might ultimately result in an out of band... Read more...
IT Portfolio Management book
July 28, 2005
Just ordered this new book on IT Portfolio Management - it looks very promising. One of the guys is a Meta (now Gartner) analyst. Reportedly has good clarity on the distinction between application and project portfolio management - the former IMHO... Read more...
Motive - CMDB vendor
July 21, 2005
Hadn't come across Motive before. They are selling a CMDB and discovery tools. -Charlie Read More →
IT Compliance Institute
July 21, 2005
You can get a free membership to the IT Compliance Institute for a limited time. Fair amount of material. It's a 101 Publications (Application Development Trends, The Data Warehousing Institute) effort. -Charlie Read More →
The academic community and IT governance: a rant
July 17, 2005
Just picked up a copy of the extremely promising book IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results. It's by two MIT professors (Weill and Ross), who assert: "There has been little field-based research on IT governance,... Read more...
BPMI/OMG alignment
July 16, 2005
Time makes more converts than reason... The OMG continues to display formidable organizational momentum, with this BPMI announcement. Two years ago, the then-BPMI leadership (i.e. Howard Smith) wanted little if anything to do with the OMG. With DMTF... Read more...
Boris Pevzner (Centrata) blog - best I’ve seen
July 4, 2005
A major tip of the hat to Boris Pevzner's blog - his stuff is so good I'm tempted to pack it in (well, not really :-). In particular he points out the IT Governance Institute (a partner of ISACA, the publisher of COBIT) and their updated Board Briefing... Read more...
A logical model for IT governance
July 2, 2005
NOTE: The final version of this initial post (including definitions) is here. Public DRAFT - comments requested. Problems worthy of attackProve their worth by hitting back.-Piet Hein This post will be a work in progress for a while. Unlike many weblog... Read more...