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Welcome to The Practical PM!

December 29, 2005

As the title says, welcome to The Practical PM! My goal for creating this website/weblog/blog is to provide a resource for program managers to discuss…well...program management of course! The title of "Program Manager" as it relates to software... Read more...

Dependency management: the foundation of IT governance

December 19, 2005

(To be published in Architecture and Governance - reprinted by permission) The foundation of IT governance is the simple dependency: application depends on database, database depends on server, server depends on switch, application depends on application,... Read more...

System Center Capacity Planner 2006: SHIPPED

December 13, 2005

The Indy team just handed over our final bits for System Center Capacity Planner 2006. Barring any last-minute mishaps or recall-class bugs – memorably defined by our test manager as “causing the death or permanent disfigurement of small furry animals”... Read more...

Another problem with autodiscovery

December 3, 2005

Was discussing autodiscovery with someone the other day who pointed out that regardless of the accuracy of an autodiscovery tool, the question it can never answer is whether the discovered assets are needed. We've all heard the stories about the mainframe-era... Read more...