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Written by Derek Lonsdale   
Monday, 08 March 2010 00:00
TechnologyEverything you want to know, but were afraid to ask

With the recent economic downturn, many IT organizations are increasingly of the need to partner with their customers to ensure they are delivering the right services at the right price. Service catalogs are a powerful tool for ensuring your alignment with your customers, and for providing greater visibility and cost control capabilities. Not only does it allow your customers the ability to maximize their utilization of IT, it also provides a central part of any shared service or ITIL service management implementation.

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The 7 Software Development Wastes - Lean series Part 5 - Motion PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jack Milunsky   
Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:00
AgileMotion - Task Switching

Waste #5 in manufacturing is defined as Motion. And motion can be compared to "task switching" in Software Development - as defined by the thought leaders applying Lean thinking to software development.

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The Art of Having Fun PDF Print E-mail
Written by The Lazy Project Manager (Peter Taylor)   
Monday, 18 January 2010 00:00
PMTaking it all a little less seriously can be good for your project health

‘I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by’ Douglas Adams (Author of ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy’)

You have to laugh; well I think you have to laugh. Without a little bit of fun in every project then the project world can be a dark and depressing place.

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Cloud Computing - New Cutting Edge to Business PDF Print E-mail
Written by Debashish Das   
Thursday, 07 January 2010 00:00
CloudAbstract:

Cloud computing technology has been a new buzzword in the IT industry and expecting a new horizon for coming world. It is a style of computing which is having dynamically scalable virtualized resources provided as a service over the Internet. It reduces the time required to procure heavy resources and boot new server instances in minutes, allowing one to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as ones requirement changes. Nevertheless the technology is hot in the market and is ready to cater to the small and medium business segment. As per one of the estimates from Gartner, by year 2012, 20% of enterprise market e-mail seats will be delivered via Cloud.

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Leadership Training and Other Contradictions PDF Print E-mail
Written by David A. Schmaltz   
Monday, 04 January 2010 00:00
TechnologyA Harvard University survey found that while Fortune 100 companies rank leadership as their key strategic imperative, each admits that their training programs fail to produce the leaders they need. How does your company resolve this critical contradiction?

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Happy Holidays PDF Print E-mail
Written by TM Team   
Thursday, 24 December 2009 00:00
On the other handHAPPY HOLIDAYS AND SEASONS GREETINGS.

May the New Year bring technical peace, Logical happiness and graphical prosperity!

Amen.

 
IT Job Market Transformed: 21st Century View PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joel Plaut   
Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:00
TechnologyEven when I am in the same job two years in a row, I find my job is completely different. I’ve been saying that this entire decade; constant change is the one thing that doesn’t change.

The skills and technologies I am compelled through my work to pick up, are often those I never envisaged I would need, and possibly never even heard of the year before.

The very kinds of unique technology skills that can make you indispensible are those that 15 years ago made you un-promotable, in a forgotten era of near-guaranteed employment. As a well meaning manager once explained to me earlier in my career “We’d love to promote you, but you’re the only one who can do the job you are doing today”. That lead me to change modus operandi and work hard to train my successor.

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