My Chiquita
November 30, 2005
ITIL: Process or function??
November 25, 2005
Some thoughts that have been bubbling for a while, as I dig deeper into the discipline of Business Process Management (BPM) - Many of the ITIL practice areas (in particular those in Service Delivery) do not appear to be processes in the strict... Read more...
OGC licensing ITIL & Prince2 rights
November 24, 2005
Very interesting. Note that this does not include the core material, but does include exam accreditation and derivative materials, including enforcement of ITIL trademark infringement. In full heads down book mode which is why things are quiet... Read more...
Introduction to EVM – The Frosting
November 20, 2005
The example of last week presents us with some good and bad news. But how much more productive were we and how much behind schedule are we? The EV technique presents us with the results by calculating:Cost Variance (CV): CV=EV-AC;Schedule Variance (SV):... Read more...
Introduction to EVM – The Cake
November 13, 2005
Financial PitfallsNever wonder why each week the project is always on budget but the project always finishes costing more or finishing latter?Imagine that you have a three-day project with one task done by one resource. You plan accordingly and at day... Read more...
ITRP = ERP4IT?
November 11, 2005
Hearing the term "IT Resource Planning" (ITRP) w/increasing frequency. Appears to be synonymous with "ERP for IT" and probably is a better brand. (No, won't change the blog name.) Troux registered the domain name itrp.com. Wonder... Read more...
OGC and ITGI collaborate on official ITIL/COBIT mapping
November 11, 2005
The producers of the CobiT (ITGI) and ITIL (OGC/ITSMF) standards have published an official mapping between CobiT and ITIL, which also references ISO 17799. (Since ISO didn't co-author this, I don't consider the ISO mapping official.) This is a useful... Read more...
Grrrl Power
November 8, 2005
Online PM Resources: Templates, Articles, Tools, Assessments & more
November 8, 2005
Project Cache
November 7, 2005
Beta 1 kept us quite busy last week so it ended up being a slow blog week. With the weather back to normal in Seattle (cloudy, wet, cool) and Beta 1 almost ready, I have a bit of time to talk about one of the biggest changes in P12 = the Project Cache. A... Read more...