Prune IT Systems, Not Budgets Very worthwhile article, quick 2 page read, <http://www.cio.com/archive/011505/cost_control.html> here. Do you have your...
Charlie, thanks for bringing this to my attention. ASL is clearly addressing a gap in ITIL and is a more "natural" way to organize and gain alignment with the...
IT Toolbox blogs Wow, what a wealth of first-hand IT narrative - good stuff: <http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/?d=bloggers> http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/?d=bloggers...
Borland CTO blog Patrick Kerpan, <http://blogs.borland.com/pjkerpan/> http://blogs.borland.com/pjkerpan/ He mentions Niku and Mercury, indicating Borland's...
Paul Strassman I've appreciated Paul Strassman's work on IT investment and governance for years, but have not said so in this forum previously. If you are in ...
Charles, This man is a genius and about 15 to 20 years before his time, the rest of us are just catching up now. I once had the pleasure of hearing him speak...
I have changed the subtitle of this weblog from Managing information systems to Architecting IT Governance This I think throws into sharper focus the purpose...
James recently posted about ITIL<http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/000721.html>and asked, "Where are all the ITIL bloggers?" So where are they? Anyone...
from www.erp4it.com Joe, Chris, and Sue were talking over the coffee break at a local IT service management professional meeting... Joe: "Our senior leadership...
from www.erp4it.com Integration Competency Center, the book Informatica has published a most excellent book (co-authored by my former boss John Schmidt) on...
from www.erp4it.com Federated CMDB: dimensionality is key "Let's put all of IT's data into one database and call it a CMDB!" "Okay! Wait, this is too hard!" ...
Anyone have recommendations for software that can extract and analyize the capacity and use data from storage or maybe servers? For example, we have some...
James Governor's blog, & CA Liking <http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/> James Governor's blog a lot. In particular he (as well as Dennis Gaughan at AMR) are...
Looking for IBM "Yellow" books I keep hearing rumors of the legendary IBM "Yellow" books, aka the "Information Systems Management Architecture" series. Does...
Greatest hits For those who may be recent subscribers to this blog/email list, a little background: I started this blog as essentially a simple means to ...
Red books yes, but I've never heard of "yellow books". However, I foudn a reference to "ITIL - IT Infrastructure Library" when I searched for "yellow books"....
Here is a composite of the discussion from a couple different sources: "In the early 80's I ...engaged in a "Problem Management" project. As part of that, the...
Fundamentals of integration metadata IV: An integration metamodel Entire series: Part 1: <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2004/01/delving_into_th.html> ...
P.S. How to keep this up to date? Well, that's where <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2004/02/model_driven_co.html> Model Driven Configuration Management...
In the 80s there were two organizations (that I remember) that might have published such a series: - The ITSO (Interantional tecdhnical Support Organization) -...
I am wondering if these books may have been published in support of AD/Cycle. ... From: erp4it@yahoogroups.com [mailto:erp4it@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of...
I remember reading a manual called "Entity / Relationship Modelling with AD/Cycle", which turned out to be about the AD/Cycle metamodel. I can't remember what...
There is a series of books colored "Red"; never saw any colored yellow. At 07:36 AM 6/19/2005, you wrote: I am wondering if these books may have been published...
Alright, I give up. What do all those lines mean? My psychic and intuitive powers are very weak, and without wording on those lines, I'm must guessing. Get...
Suggest you spend some quality time with the metamodels at www.omg.org. The lines aren't usually labeled; "has dependency on," "is instance of," "reads/writes"...
I'd imagine that if there was ever "yellow journalism" practiced at IBM, it must have been with AD/Cycle. "Yellow" implies the notion of "sensational"...