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"...
Alan Wernick (chair of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Group for the law firm of Querrey & Harrow Ltd) gave a great presentation at the...
Charlie, Google led me to this page: http://www-1.ibm.com/services/us/index.wss/detail/its/a1000593 The pdf linked to by the page says this: IBM has been and...
So, I think we're clear we're talking about the YELLOW books, not the current RED books. Now, how to get ahold of these? If my sources are correct there are...
Charlie, ... Hmm...IIRC you used to vehemently disagree with models that allow systems to be composed of systems at arbitrary depth. What made you change your...
Hi, Charlie asks: "How do you manage something distributed?" (http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2005/06/how_to_govern_d.html) IMHO the general answer is: ...
Good point. I still do think it is a best practice to "fix" the number of levels you are going to manage to; however, not everyone's needs are the same and for...
MessageI would be curious to know how many other folk here blog? I blog at http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/leadership Good place to setup your blog if ...
Why I'm posting again from www.erp4it.com Some inquiring minds are asking offline why I'm posting again, and what some of my cryptic remarks over the previous...