Postcards from the Revolution

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I have moved to Process Notes , which is a forum. I may be adding content here from time to time, but the forum is a more interactive vehic...

Back to Business . If you're exploring the feasibility of employing m-commerce or wireless-enabled systems I recommend reading Mobile B...

Square Peg in a Round Hole? I usually discuss software engineering topics in Notes from the Field , reserving this weblog for IT managemen...

I just pre-ordered a book called Building Operational Excellence that may be of interest to readers. Amazon has little information about i...

IT Quality . The recent theme in our sister weblog, Notes from the Field is centered around software testing and test process improvement, ...

Business As Usual . In my 16 May entry I provided links to topics that span the IT and business domains, and are excellent resources for bu...

Service and Strategy . I have once again fallen into that vortex of competing priorities swirling around and a negative time warp where I s...

First Things First . I've been searching for a Visio diagram that depicts the PRINCE2 Process flow and finally found it. Unfortunatel...

I've written more than a few entries about project management in the past two weeks. This entry is going to combine project management ...

Random Thoughts . This entry has two fuzzy objectives: (1) a warm-up exercise for some work that I need to get done, and (2) fill in missing...

More Project Management Resources . In response to my 9 May entry a few readers recommended the following books, none of which I've rea...

Kate's Influence . Although Kate Hartshorn is engaged in other endeavors at the moment and won't be contributing her insights, her...

PRINCE2 . Because I believe in the superiority of PRINCE2 over the PMI approach discussed in my last entry I want to provide a few links to...

Project Management: Getting a Handle on Learning How . This entry is going to be long because it's a culmination of answers to frequen...

Availability . Linda and I are now available for consulting assignments, either as a team or individually. Marcia Hopkins will be available...

Temporary Absence . Kate Hartshorn will be conspicuously absent for an indefinite period while she is engaged elsewhere. Kate's contr...

One often overlooked aspect of IT security and service delivery is the importance of facilities management. From an IT security point of vi...

Sanity and Scaling Back . When I recommended Information Security Policies Made Easy in my 4 May entry someone asked me if I had lost my m...

Princely Artifacts . I've discussed the UK project management standard called PRINCE2 in previous entries , and have a large number of ...

Risk management is a much discussed topic here, and one of the better books on this topic that I've recently read is Effective Risk Man...

Essential Security Resources . If you develop security policies and procedures you need to seriously consider investing in a copy of Inform...

I've been discussing process improvement and business value. I found a book that combines the two in a neat, coherent package: Software...

The newest issue of CrossTalk is out. Although I normally post new issue announcements for this excellent magazine in Notes from the Field...

It seems that I make an entry and it turns into a series. The MS Word document titled A Business Goal-Based Approach to Achieving Systems an...

More on Process . I place process above all else. Tools without processes frequently turn into shelfware and are a monument to poor managem...

Linda and Kate covered service delivery in their recent entries while I addressed project management and metrics. The following documents w...

My entry on 25 April wrapped up thoughts and associated documents on project management. This entry's theme is metrics. There is a dir...

In my entry in Notes from the Field today I discussed privacy as it related to presence and availability management. If you read my 25 Apr...

Ending Notes: Project Management . My last two entries covered various aspects of software project management. I'll end the series (wh...

More on Project Management . In my last entry I shared documents that will pave the way to sound software project risk management technique...

Project Risk . Managing software project risks is often discussed, but too often misunderstood. One of the unfortunate problems is that IT...

Wrap-up . I'm going to wrap the security thread with a PDF presentation on risk analysis . The author of this presentation is Thomas R....

Back to Security . I'm going to sidestep Linda's challenge to continue the ISO thread and refocus on security. I have documents to...

Security (again!) . Security is a recurring theme here and in Notes from the Field , and it's time for another installment. One excell...