Mar11
Haven’t been quite so active on the blog as of late as I’ve been working on a couple of presentations and enjoying this beautiful south Texas weather with the kids. Stay tuned as we have some good content getting queued up and due to be released in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime, please note that I’ll be delivering three presentations at the upcoming June PMI Houston blowout (more ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 04:41.
Feb25
There’ve been a number of good blog posts/articles in the last week or two on the basics of scheduling and project planning. I haven’t had the time to capture each and every one of them, but I thought it was worth collecting some of the best ones in a short list here. If you’re in the scheduling business, then these are well worth the time to check out.
Mosaic Projects on Metaplanning in Con...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 25 Feb 2010 08:38.
Feb2
I am not sure how the Austin PMO LIG stacks up, but the Central Ohio one I used to attend was a great forum for sharing ideas and mixing with local program/portfolio managers. This event is at the Texas Association of School Boards.
From the invitation e-mail I received yesterday…
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Have you wondered at all buzz regarding SharePoint and Project Management? Well, come join us for a de...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 2 Feb 2010 08:23.
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.
Jan16
From the RedMonk Blog comes the the Operations Unconference, OpsCamp, in Austin on 1/30.
…where attendees propose, discuss and debate issues related to operations and monitoring. Proposed topics include Automation, Monitoring, Configuration Management, Cloud Technologies, Agile Infrastructure, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, ITSM/BSM or Visible Ops.
http://www.opscamp.org/austin/2010-01-30
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Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 07:10.
Jan16
Saw this on Clarke Ching’s blog, and yep, it’s true. Tony Rizzo is giving away copies of their single project Critical Chain add-in to MS Project:
http://www.pdinstitute.com/AllFramePages/FP_Critical_Chain_Software.html
Get ‘em while they’re hot. Note that as far as I can tell, the requirement is that you install the 30 day trial version of the multi-project add-in (cc-mPulse) to get the si...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Saturday, 16 Jan 2010 07:08.
Dec3
My stepbrother is a realtor – a good realtor at that. He bought and sold our last house, and in this economy, kudos to him.
I remember when we were shopping for that house that in one day he must’ve taken my wife and I to at least 20-30 different houses. After a while, they all became a blur of bedrooms and basements, and kitchens with islands, and kitchens without islands, and backyards….. ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 3 Dec 2009 10:16.
Dec1
I see a lot of discussion within my client organizations about the proper role of EPM software to support Agile and other project management methodologies. It just so happens that Glen Alleman hit upon that very topic over the weekend on his Herding Cats blog.
Almost all of his posts are a must read for PMs, but since this one mentions Microsoft Project (as a representative of almost all of t...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 1 Dec 2009 09:10.
Oct14
Following up on a previous post on setting schedule buffers, I figured it was about time to revisit the topic of buffers, this time with cost. This post will discuss best practices in setting cost buffers using the budget resource feature in Microsoft Project 2007.
First off, why should we set buffers on a project? Simply put, buffers make projects more predictable and allow better planning ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 14 Oct 2009 11:23.
Oct7
Updating my blog list after the EPM Conference a couple of weeks ago. Figured I'd share with the crowd. Note that this is not scientific, and some of these may be dead links. Some of these blogs haven't been updated in a while, but still have good information posted. Some of these blogs aren't really Project or Project Server focused, but still mention it from time to time.
RSS feeds ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 7 Oct 2009 11:28.