Guide to IT Service Management
October 22, 2005
Updated: This book is available through Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201737922/itsmportal-21/026-8271473-1747613 The Guide to IT Service Management is an exhaustive compendium of much industry-leading thought on all aspects... Read more...
Server Side Scheduling
October 17, 2005
As we begin each product cycle, we take a look at customer feedback from users of the prior version + folks in our Beta program. With Project 2002 and 2003, customers were fairly unanimous in wanting to eliminate the "round-tripping" of actuals through... Read more...
SIM, AITP, and other IT professional groups
October 15, 2005
I thought that the Society for Information Management was getting more ink than usual lately (example); their "SIM in the News" page confirms this with a dramatic spike this month. Are they on a publicity push? We do need a general-purpose IT... Read more...
Human Resources Management
October 12, 2005
Hi,The art/science of managing people on a project environment is one of the most important aspects of project management. The project team quality is as good as the quality of the actions of the individual team members, in the sense that if you have... Read more...
Human Resources Management
October 12, 2005
Hi, The art/science of managing people on a project environment is one of the most important aspects of project management. The project team quality is as good as the quality of the actions of the individual team members, in the sense that if you have... Read more...
Built on WSS
October 11, 2005
When we began P12, we started with thinking how we could improve performance and scalability, move Project Server extensibility to a "standard" Microsoft toolset, and take some of the complexity out of configuring Project Server farms. After about 6 months... Read more...
ITIL @ U of MN; excellent config paper
October 10, 2005
The University of Minnesota (my alma mater) has developed quite a strong ITIL offering through its College of Continuing Education. This resources page includes podcasts and white papers, including a good one on configuration management by a senior Carlson... Read more...
Dr. Arnon Rosenthal
October 10, 2005
Those of you particularly concerned with data architecture may want to check out Dr. Arnon Rosenthal's work; I just re-visited his site tonight and was reminded of the uniformly high quality of this man's research and thought. I found his recent work... Read more...
Reporting
October 4, 2005
Project 12 expands the range of, reports supported on Project Server ... and greatly simplifies the process of building reports on Project Server. Let's start with Project Server 12's database architecture. Project Server 12 has four databases:... Read more...