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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: February 2007
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Getting More for Less out of your staff. What to make more profit, lower costs and increase financial viability of your company? In "Practice What You Preach: What Managers Must Do to Create a High Achievement Culture" gives you the formula. And his model really. Is a mathematical formula! Think this through with "brain-workers" (or Knowledge worker...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: March 2007
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Wednesday, March 21, 2007. Jerry Landsbaum's Metrics - Measuring and Motivating Maintenance Programmers. Quote (p58, Section 3.3: What we Accomplished). If we had no improvement in productivity, and had simply experienced the increases in salaries over that period, the cost to support a module in the fifth year would have been $1,232. CIS evaporated when Monsanto was taken over.
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: The 2% Rule, or 98:2 Solution
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Friday, March 2, 2007. The 2% Rule, or 98:2 Solution. You know the '80:20 Rule' - the Pareto Principle - that 80% of faults are caused by 20% of problems. Here's a similar rule: Items under 2% of budget get different rules. But for the 'incidentals', different economics and criteria apply. If you're a builder and you can buy the same. The one and two percenters? For the "1-2%" i...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: The end of the "Silicon Revolution"
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Friday, March 2, 2007. The end of the "Silicon Revolution". This seems to be one of the biggest IT stories not. Making news and not being actively addressed by Professionals and the Industry. Neil Gunther writes about. The change in the Moore's Law CPU speed constant. Which is why we have " multi. In The Free Lunch is over. What will over IT Services look like then? Design will ...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: When companies fail - The Stench of Corporate Death.
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Saturday, March 17, 2007. When companies fail - The Stench of Corporate Death. First posted on Who Killed Howard Johnson. By Jerry Gregoire.]. I've worked as a contract SysAdmin in a bunch of places in decline - and found I had a knack for pulling the I.T. systems out of crisis. Only as much as one admin can, and only for the short time of my contract. Just how, later on. It tak...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: Why is learning ITIL so hard?
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Thursday, March 15, 2007. Why is learning ITIL so hard? Back from the first week of ITIL Service Managers' Training. Took me 4 days to recover - part of which could be the driving [only 7-8 hours each way]. So why was I exhausted? I don't have a good reason. It's not like the ITIL material is 'deep' or 'difficult' like Queueing Theory [thanks Neil! At this point, just have to ta...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: Teams - the Killer App?
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Thursday, March 1, 2007. Teams - the Killer App? The doyen of the Quality Software movement, in his landmark four-volume set "Quality Software Management" comments on models of Software Metrics - that five. Factors, each of which could vary productivity two-fold, were left out because they were too hard to measure. Team Performance is one of these five [from memory]. What I'd li...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: Mythical Man Month II
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Thursday, March 1, 2007. Mythical Man Month II. Brooke's Law doesn't include scaling. Effects. They're geometric. [There is another effect I can't yet name that kicks in for very large projects so they can. Never complete. This isn't just an asympote, but a maximum - total output reduces. The bigger you make the project team without relaxing the time constraint.]. Their "Recipe ...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: The Mythical Man Month Revisited
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Thursday, March 1, 2007. The Mythical Man Month Revisited. Wrote a definitive book, "The Mythical Man Month" on the management of large projects. He reported the development of the Operating System for the (then) revolutionary "IBM/360" around 1960. His main conclusion is usually stated as: "Adding more programmers to a late project only makes it later.". It's a creative endeavo...
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not?: CMDB - Not a DB, not 'definitive master'
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ITIL Utopia - Or Not? ITIL - Utopia or Myopia? ITIL is both a Dictionary and. Which raises some questions:. How complete is it? Friday, March 16, 2007. CMDB - Not a DB, not 'definitive master'. Ok - this was a real insight to me. Hope it's not Old News :-). 25-Jan/15-Feb-2007. This PDF. From the "CMDB Federation [BMC, CA, Fujitsu, HP, IBM and Microsoft] supports a similar view - "Federated CMDB's".]. He's struggling with Data Quality issues - surprise, surprise. It reminds me of comments by Jerry Gregoire.
