A new framework for IT management: portfolio lifecycles Frameworks, frameworks, everywhere... ITIL, CMM, COBIT, etc., etc., ... and yet none of them satisfy....
ERP for IT - my views Just to set the record straight for my friend the IT <http://www.itskeptic.org/node/603#comment-2795> Skeptic: Not sure I agree with "ERP...
Charles In your last email, you talk about the lack of Enterprise Resource Planning tools. I spent 2 years raising awareness with the Australian Govt on: 1....
To your points: 1. & 2. Your math is correct. 3. Non Causa Pro Causa. Your assumption seems to be that IT is the problem. I submit it is not. The...
I have seen business applications owned by both the business and by IT, and currently work in a mixed environment. There are arguments on both sides. Business...
Wiles and <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2008/05/wiles-and-vambe.html> Vambenepe on CMDBf. interesting perspectives on CMDBf from Van Wiles here ...
Ross I agree to your viewpoint on the PPM Tools. But if u look at the architecture/features of the PPM Tools today they are more focused on Discretionary Spend...
Interesting point this, Business versus IT, might be worth a separate posting. I'm strongly against business systems being owned by IT but recognize the...
Catching up on my journals Probably my first exposure to the concept of a "professional journal" was M*A*S*H; medical journals figured in a number of the...
Catching up on my journals 2 Harvard Business Review July-August 2008: "Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference" by McAfee & Brynjolfsson, is...
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So, I cannot buy a CMDB and I do not want to maintain a complex spreadsheet - are there any simple tools that just allow you to define dependencies and then...
The main issue is that you need to determine whether you are more on the enterprise config or element config side. You probably don't want to try to roll your...
You may want to take a look at Service Ramp. http://www.serviceramp.com . It is a SaaS based catalog tool but also provides a simple way to create and track...
MRP for IT <http://erp4it.typepad.com/erp4it/2008/11/mrp-for-it.html> I have been posting about "ERP for IT" for some years now. While I have been generally...
Charlie, thanks for taking your blog in this direction. I believe there are many more parallels between traditional manufacturing and software development....
I recommend Womack's book "Lean Thinking", along with Michael Kennedy's Product Development for the Lean Enterprise. There is a lot to be learned from Lean,...
Here's the book [1] that started me down the road to understanding that, often, when someone says software development is nothing like manufacturing, they...
Charles, ... <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet> well stated by Fred Brooks among others: software development has essential complexity and is...
Appreciate all the insights & discussion - I am reconsidering some of my assumptions now with respect to applications development. I still think that it is...
I believe the problem is a combination of the "essential complexity" of the business architecture (and the fact that it drives all technical requirements), but...
Assembling an MRP library I live convenient to the University of Minnesota, a world-class research institution. The MIS program at the Carlson School of ...
Independent and dependent demand, and the pitfalls of forecasting According to Plossl, one of the initial differentiators of MRP versus previous approaches was...
Entity lifecycles & ITSM process architecture Been working with my three-lifecycle model for a while now (also here) and it is holding up in the lab so far. (I...
MPC for the large IT organization So I've started to read Vollman. Definitely considering APICS certification but have a lot more to think about before...
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