Good Lesson !!! :-)
February 28, 2007
One of my colleagues sent this to me today.. Though we cant stick to the rule... Its a good lesson I should say :-)) Read More →
What do investment banks do?
February 26, 2007
Investment banks operate in a multi-billion dollar industry and hold a very interesting characteristic – not many people know the details of what they actually do. Even more interesting is the fact that a surprisingly large number of people who work... Read more...
02/26/07 Tip of the Week. PMO Setup: Tip 4 – Keep it simple.
February 26, 2007
First and foremost, bear in mind that few PMOs have had start-up difficulties or have failed because things were too simple. Rather, complexity and too much detail in things are likely to be a far greater problem and contributor to execution difficulties... Read more...
Week 25 (Building a PMO) – Lessons Learned? – Process
February 26, 2007
In project management, we generally group our processes under the heading of “methodology.” For some reason, I think methodology brings a more formal connotation than process. Either way you slice it, the way we do our work is what those of us in... Read more...
MBA update …
February 25, 2007
Thanks to everyone who has written in or called wishing me the best of luck with getting my MBA! This has been quite a journey already and I haven’t even been admitted to the program yet! If you’re interested in keeping up on how things... Read more...
Application and Service Portfolio Management
February 25, 2007
A longstanding debate in IT service management is the relationship between Service and Application. Readers of my book and this blog know that I see an Application as a subtype of Service, not as a component of. The alternative view is well articulated... Read more...
“Configuration”: decomposing a troublesome word
February 24, 2007
Thought for the day: “Configuration” is used in the sense of: A configuration item – a discrete object of a given type. The router, the server, the software, the application. The “configuration” of the item itself - the value of its attributes,... Read more...
How to survive in daily business life?
February 22, 2007
- So many management concepts! Smoking or non smoking management concepts? I really like this one ! Remind me an old chart about management concepts life cycle... - A good manager has surely to be stress tolerant, have to feed his curiosity, ... In... Read more...
Schedule Questions: Pair Programming and the PNR Curve
February 22, 2007
Converting effort estimates into project durations and team sizes is an important part of project planning. How this is done varies from project manager to project manager, to some it is an art, others a science, and to many a case of living with everyday... Read more...
When is Scrum not Scrum?
February 22, 2007
In teaching Scrum during the past year, and working with organizations in a consulting/training capacity I have found more and more that some of the principles as outlined in the two Scrum books are out-dated and unhelpful. I teach what I know works... Read more...