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...
Charles, I like the model you have created. I cannot tell you how pleased I am to see this topic. I gave a presentation a few weeks ago on a very similar...
So glad you asked! Years ago I spent some time with the Theory of Constraints hoping to apply it to application development. The basis is actually two...
Why and how I blog Some say that blogging has become passe. I don't care; I started doing it because it made sense for me, and still does. While I don't make a...
Barbecue is a noun... For all us Yankees who may need to know a bit more on the subject (and if you don't know why I'm posting this, you're not paying...
Systems dynamics: a challenge to "enterprise" architecture? Followers of this site and IT Skeptic may have noticed a number of debates concerning industrial...
Charlie, I don't claim to be super-current on Systems Dynamics, but I was much into the same sort of thing in the 1970s (then called by names such as...
New to the group here. Question re: IT Utopia ERP in the classic sense derives it's value from the information it brings to all the entities participating, and...
The CMDB is an Operational Data Store Longtime readers know that bringing some sense of architectural rigor to ITIL is an ongoing goal of this blog. The CMDB,...
I agree with the arguments provided here for what CMDB is but there is one point that I would argue is often missed... Volatile. "Every time the data in the...
Building and maintaining a CMDB using just a relational database is very inefficient and ineffective. Using a metadata repository (MDR), e.g., MOF, is better,...
Interesting points I generally agree with. However the concept of ODS is architectural and does not specify implementation technology. I think we could call...
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