Jun15
Chatting with a mentor from a previous life recently as I prepped for a presentation, and he pointed me to this excellent 1986 article by Herbert Simon, the late Nobel prize winning social scientist. If you’re attending my PMI Houston presentation on Project Teams as Innovation Systems on Wednesday, then this would be a great follow up (or even pre) read.
It’s an overview of the state of deci...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 15 Jun 2010 07:50.
May11
Well, we knew it was coming, but at long last the Microsoft Project newsgroups will be gone in the nearish future, to be replaced by a whole selection of sleek, new feature-ridden Web-based forums. For more information, please check out Brian Smith’s post Newsgroups Are So Yesterday. Forums Are the Future.
Just wait a second. You mean that Microsoft has provided all sorts of useful function...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 11 May 2010 03:07.
Mar23
Part of my ongoing preparation for a presentation on EPM Deployment best practices….
A colleague of mine remarked a couple of months ago that the number one indicator of success in a MOPS deployment is identifying the owner of the Server implementation going forward. More often then not, the owner is a PM or PMO member who is dragooned into Server ownership. Alternatively, the owner is a mem...
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Tuesday, 23 Mar 2010 09:12.
Jan26
The ITSMf Houston mailing list autospammed me the other day inviting me to an interesting upcoming event on Service Portfolios presented by Reginald Best, a Deloitte consultant - and if my memory doesn’t fail me from a brief conversation in Austin two years ago, a fellow Buckeye-in-exile.
The event is on 2/11 and will be at the BMC offices in Westchase. Free event, free food, good content. I...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 26 Jan 2010 06:53.
Jan25
I’ve had a couple of ITIL conversations as of late…mostly centering around the question of what exactly it is. I’ve given the standard response as to British government best practices on IT operations supported by a vibrant collection of user groups around the world. That never seemed to resonate.
Then I was chatting with an ex-oilfield equipment sales representative, and I was trying to fin...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 25 Jan 2010 06:59.