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Its been quite a while since I have updated the blog - but here is a quick update on work I am doing outside of my day to day project management and research - the Rocco Rossi campaign for Mayor.
Highlighting a great team effort and also a journey I have been taking learning the power […]
June 13th, 2010
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Recently I have conducted a research survey (on-line) aimed at understanding documentation in IT. Documentation is certainly not glamorous - but it may be the least expensive way to increase productivity. In many of the situations where I do triage work and develop computing models, the striking thing has been either the absence of […]
December 5th, 2008
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You may have seen the CNN 3D (magic wall) and holographic show on the US election night. This resulted in a mixed reception on-line. There were a range of predictable comments: - From “that’s cool” to completely wacky - my favorite is “this is pure retro Star Wars” (see Techcrunch). In addition to the […]
November 7th, 2008
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BPMN,UML,MDD,DSL,MOF,OMG, YAAaaaa! - I cheated YAA stands for Yet Another Acronym! Modeling methods for application software appears rife with different views on how software should be designed and documented. Or at least until now, as Microsoft has joined the open source consortium in this space - OMG - The Object Management Group. […]
October 15th, 2008
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If you are not familiar with Visio Cafe - its a great resource for computer stencils (think Powerpoint shapes except smarter). VSD Grafx Inc, that supports this open source site - provides many stencils of configurable computer objects to most of the main systems vendors today including IBM, EMC, HP and a […]
September 16th, 2008
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I have just finished reading Chris Anderson’s (Editor of Wired) excellent book - “The Long Tail” and it really opened my mind to the profound change in economics that is taking place online and how this will affect main stream business. The Long Tail premise is that the 80/20 rule no longer holds because […]
August 31st, 2008
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The following tip on project management is important both for senior managers and executives and for those in the business of execution. However to explain it requires a bit of technical discussion about the feature and the software concerned. The explanation below also relates to the common computing model framework which is the subject […]
August 2nd, 2008
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As more of my work involves now the day to day use of a common computing model - I thought readers would find it interesting to compare the concept to the Building industry who already have a similar process of their own. Its called BIM - Building Information Modeling. BIM involves creating essentially a 3D […]
July 11th, 2008
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(University of Toronto) then its good enough to practically apply to I.T.!
Roger Martin’s excellent, recently published book “The Opposable Mind” is all about integrative thinking and how this capability fosters successful leadership. His argument revolves around the concept of our different mental models and how differences in interpretation lead to varied outcomes. By being able […]
April 21st, 2008
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Someone once said (and I forget who it was) that the downside of great project management is that it can simply accelerate disaster. The point of this comment is not that there is anything wrong with project management, (in fact of course its indispensable) its that if the end product is flawed or poorly defined […]
March 7th, 2008
