Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Managing CHAOS in an Agile World

Many IT executives and managers are hearing buzz about the ability of Agile methods to help achieve a greater success rate for project delivery and customer satisfaction. However the use of Agile methods requires its own set of project management tools and practices to mitigate new challenges to project success.

Read more to gain a tactical understanding of how Agile methodologies can help address typical project challenges and how to actually run Agile projects.

Monday, July 27, 2009

Enterprise Intelligence for Free: Microsoft restructures to bring BI to the Masses

Are you faced with the need to do more with less? Are you getting the most out of your data? Following Microsoft’s restructuring of their BI suite, discover the changes that come along with this initiative and learn about Microsoft BI software that you might already own.

Read more to see the impact that this change could have on you and the industry

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Why Enterprise Architecure Matters: Surfing the Waves

Why does Enterprise Architecture matter?!

Explore how IT, the Business, and its Customers and Suppliers relate to each other within a value chain! By grouping all of these together in one big “wave of business”, it becomes clear how the IT organization resides within the business and has its own value chain of customers and suppliers.

Read more to see the effect that the “Business of IT” has on this overall “wave” and why enterprise architecture is so valuable to a company’s success.

Enterprise Architecture: Time for IT to breakout!

It is time for IT to break out! Many times, the IT sector of an organization resides in its own corner of the enterprise and is rarely seen or heard from. It is time to break out of the corner! By thinking of itself as a business, IT can now serve with greater freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Find out where strategy fits in the enterprise architecture, and how strategy affects which enterprise architecture is chosen, layer by layer.

Read more on how to increase operational efficiency of your IT organization as it adapts to this “Business of IT”.

Networking for Life

Networking for life is the concept that those individuals who invest time connecting and serving others have a much higher probability of achieving their goals than those who don’t. The combined energy developed from people working together is very powerful and technology is making it easier to connect.

The technology is exploding, but that is just the start. Invest in the lives of others connecting with them but also helping them achieve their goals and objectives. You future will be determined by how well you build this capability. Read my Networking for Life Viewpoint to learn more.