Hobbies & Interests
October 31, 2005
Management & Leadership Books
October 31, 2005
Why we’ve posted a beta refresh of System Center Capacity Planner
October 30, 2005
A week ago we updated the public beta of System Center Capacity Planner. This “beta refresh” of SCCP is now dependent on the release candidate of .NET Framework 2.0, instead of being dependent on their beta 2 release. Shipping this refresh took a... Read more...
Earned Value Management Applied to Small Projects Basic Model (Part 2)
October 30, 2005
When a task is recovering (a task is recovering when it was supposed to have finished but it is still being executed) EV is going to progress towards PV and PV is always the same causing the progression of SPI towards 1 (the baseline is extending until... Read more...
IT governance & related weblog
October 29, 2005
I like the EyeToIT weblog very much (especially since it's run by another Minnesotan!) This recent post on IT education and computer science was summarized in a widely read ACM list, and speaks to some of the issues we've discussed here. -ctb Read More →
Beta 1
October 27, 2005
We are hard at work finishing up Beta 1. Beta 1 is a closed, by invitation only "technical" beta. I am feeling reasonably good about the Beta. I would like to take another 4+ weeks to fix bugs. But it is important to get feedback on the feature set as... Read more...
Server-Side Custom Fields
October 27, 2005
With Project Server 12, we really wanted to expand the range of our reporting functionality. A key strength of the Project EPM Solution is the ability to define key fields for projects, resources, tasks, or assignments and then enforce use of those fields... Read more...
Project Estimation
October 26, 2005
While on the train heading to Paul Graham's Startup School, I brought along quite a bit of reading material. I was hoping to sleep, but I was also hoping to catch up on some reading while I couldn't be distracted with various tasking, email, etc, etc. For... Read more...
A configuration management maturity model
October 24, 2005
Just some quick thoughts on how configuration management might evolve. This is not a strict model; certain things can be leapfrogged (while others can't). Comments appreciated. Level Hardware Software Level 1 Hardware inventory, manually maintained... Read more...
Earned Value Management Applied to Small Projects Basic Model (Part 1)
October 23, 2005
Commonly EVM has seen a very good acceptance in projects of very big dimension (usually called multi-million dollar projects) and unfortunately it’s also been a general practice to disregard the use of EVM in small projects (up to 4 Full Time Equivalent... Read more...