2007 March | PMToolbox :: Tools and Resources for Project Management

SOA, is that clear for everybody?

March 26, 2007

SOA story is a nice one! It was at the top of CIO challenges for 2007, and reemphasised in recent CeBit, ... To consider the best way to develop, maintain application is to design them as independant LEGO buiding blocks, exchanging services is a nice... Read more...

Announcing the beta release of System Center Capacity Planner 2007

March 26, 2007

We're pleased to announce the beta release of System Center Capacity Planner 2007! SCCP 2007 provides sizing, architectural guidance and best practices for customers to plan their deployments of Operations Manager 2007 and Exchange 2007. Essentially,... Read more...

Lessons Learned – why don’t we learn from them?

March 24, 2007

Still thinking about lessons learned and my biggest question is why don’t we learn from them?Here is the situation that has come up to make me think again. My current program has a weekly meeting with the Governance board. We quickly review the status... Read more...

Podcast episode 001: Welcome to pm411.org

March 24, 2007

Finally, our first episode of the pm411.org podcast is complete and available. In this first episode, we cover the following topics: A little about me, your host, Ron Holohan What the pm411.org podcast and website hopes to achieve An overview of some... Read more...

Project Management Resource

March 23, 2007

Project Management Learning Center.. A very nice resource bank of Project Management related resources. From newbies to Project management consultants.. its useful for everybody.. Further you can see lots of reputed PM professionals in the industry... Read more...

Release and Iteration Planning with Innovation Games

March 23, 2007

In this post I outline some really useful techniques for planning releases and iterations. They are adapted from a great book called “Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products through Collaborative Play" by Luke Hohmann Some thoughts on... Read more...

IT Financial Management Association conference brochure

March 21, 2007

Got the IT Financial Management Association's fine looking conference brochure today. This conference is June 25-29 in Las Vegas and entitled "The World of IT Financial Management." Not to be confused with the IQPC event. Since ITFMA is a... Read more...

Overworked? Don’t complain, do something about it!

March 21, 2007

This is a short post because I'm working an awful lot of hours right now. Rather than complaining about my workload, over the past few months I have been taking steps to improve things by providing my line management with potential alternatives and encouraging... Read more...

Is Your Software Team Sticky?

March 20, 2007

One of the most challenging things on a software project is making sure that the core ideas and vision of the system are well understood by all of the team members.Without that shared vision, the team is likely to pull in different directions, even with... Read more...

2007 PMO of the Year Award