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Written by Allan Kelly
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Monday, 07 September 2009 00:00 |
 Unless you have spent the last 10 years away form the IT world you can’t have missed the rise of Agile software development. Countless books, journals, blogs and consultants are now devoted to furthering the use of Agile techniques.
Agile is apple pie. Everyone seems to favour it and many claim to be doing it. Even the Software Engineering Institute (originators of CMM and CMMI) have issued a paper showing how CMMI and Agile are complementary. But, who is actually doing Agile?
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Written by Terrie S. DaSilva
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Thursday, 03 September 2009 00:00 |
 Typically, we hear the chant “Change is good”. Psychologically and physically speaking, it is an inevitable reality. Many times for the good and alas, sometimes for the worst. Let’s focus on the organization and change within.
I have NOT yet found a good tool that measures moral and employee perception on change. Nor, the perception of your customer base when you make major changes to your organization. You may get some indicators if you do some impact analysis or engage your valued customers in the beginning. Input can gain you pearls of wisdom before you embark on a major change.
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Written by Gijs Houtzagers
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Monday, 31 August 2009 00:00 |
 This article describes an organization format that today is often used to combine all functional and technical services in one unit under single management. The coming chapters will provide a short overview of the advantages of a Human Resources Competence Center (HRCC) and what services are provided for.
1|1 Why a Competence center HR (HRCC)
Nearly all large companies that have implemented an ERP system for their back-office activities reorganize their functional departments into HRCCs, bundling the transactions and activities that are part of the ERP system into one unit. Basically there are three main reasons:
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Written by Jonathan Gross
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 00:00 |
The following article is the first in a series of four articles aimed at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises seeking a rapid deployment of Enterprise Resource Planning systems and at the consultancies that may be providing those firms with assistance. The articles are based on Pemeco’s proprietary and systematic “Milestone Deliverables” and “Milestone Deliverables: Rapid Implementation” ERP methodologies.
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Written by David A. Schmaltz
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Monday, 24 August 2009 00:00 |
Near the end of his life in 1919, Henry Laurence Gantt started making unsettling speeches. His public declarations left him, after working with Frederick Winslow Taylor at both Midvale and Bethlehem Steel, sideways with the Great One.
Gantt’s indiscretion was an uncommon one. Raised on the scripture of The One Best Way—what the attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Brandeis labeled Scientific Management (though Taylor insisted upon calling it The Taylor Method)—Gantt broke ranks, proclaiming a parting of the ways. He insisted that there were as many forms of Scientific Management as there were shops, and that each implementation was necessarily unique and incomplete. Taylor refused to speak with Gantt again.
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Written by Michael Poulin
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 00:00 |
I see many indications of current shift in the technology efficiency from pure technical capabilities into the technology management. An elegant code or perfect performances of the program do not define the value of Information Technology (IT) departments any more. IT gets into the era of business competition where business efficiency (cost, flexibility, time-to-market) makes money and brings respect to IT.
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Written by Steven Bonacorsi
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Monday, 17 August 2009 00:00 |
 Box-and-whisker diagrams, or Box Plots, use the concept of breaking a data set into fourths, or quartiles, to create a display. The box part of the diagram is based on the middle (the second and third quartiles) of the data set. The whiskers are lines that extend from either side of the box.
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