FEL-Phase of a project

Today I have learned a new term of something I know since long time: Front-End Loading (FEL) of a project, it’s the process by which a project team translates its marketing and technological opportunities into capital projects. In other words, during this FEL phase, the questions of Why, What, When, How, Where and Who are … Read more

Application Portfolio Manager

Main responsibilities: Provide a single point of accountability for the delivery of all application services to the client. Identify, create, and execute opportunities for account expansion. Identify and develop business solutions that address the business objectives of the client through proposals. Ensure the application portfolio financial targets are achieved. Provide leadership and builds team spirit … Read more

Business Productivity Online Standard (BPOS)

I assisted to an interesting business BPOS presentation and the additional services my company adds to this product. Some notes: The use of a sizing calculator to calculate bandwidth, Limit your compliance exposures (SOX….), BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), Security, Pay per use model, They want to replace Lotus Notes, again 🙂 Questions: What’s the roadmap … Read more

Forrester blog for APM

Since I’m involved in application portfolio management duties, I have found this interesting blog from Forrester. I want to remind these: Databyte-spending-on-custom-software-in-2010 Top-5-changes-for-application-development-in-2010 Should-application-portfolio-management-start-with-business-process-assessments There are more, I will continue reading.

No Wifi, no fun Mr Amazon

I bought a Kindle during my last trip to US. One of the funny things was surfing into the internet. Ok, it’s not a good view, but if you want to read some information or blogs it’s enough, I’m happy! I have comeback to Spain and when I try to navigate I get this message: … Read more

Parkinson’s Law or the Pursuit of Progress (some notes)

Finally I bought this book. It took me some research till to find it. Alcalá del Olmo (Cervantes 10 in Madrid) had it: fourth impression from April 1958. To remind it, I try to summarize what I have annotated in a paper chapter by chapter. 1.- Parkinson’s law or the rising pyramid, “Work expands so … Read more

Body worlds 2 & The Brain

Today we visited “Body worlds 2 & The Brain” in the Franklin Institute, in Philadelphia (PA, USA) and we saw an interesting representation of the different parts of the body that helps everybody to understand how the human body works. Today has been a very freeze day so this was a very good plan for … Read more

Christmas time, thinking time,

Time to review the work done, time to think about the new incoming challenges. Time to rest, to sleep, to run, to walk to talk. Coming home is a rest time in the sense of being considered a person without the influence of what you do for work. You just are what you have been … Read more

Accessing to new challenges

There are people that they surf with any type of conditions, there are others than if conditions are not as bad as these, they don’t think on going to the water:However there are other people that they don’t know how to surf with all these type of problems at the same time: wind, water, waves…. … Read more