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This is something I have read from an external resource and that is taking so much time from me: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/3012.html C-RUP is part of the development paths available in CSC Catalyst. All these paths are part of the Enablement process.
After a business analysis phase for a solution, there is a decision making process for thinking about the viability of the solution. The recognition that the development of a solution really cannot be profitable is very hard for the person who studied it. Sometimes, the defense of this viability is done as a matter of … Read more
When you work on new solutions for your company, the adoption of a life-cycle costing approach is mandatory. LCC requires decisions during R&D phase. Just at this moment is when you need to start the LCC analysis. A silly example, you are working on R&D and you have 2 designs for a solution; both requires … Read more
This week I have accumulated 26 hours of scheduled meetings. It beats the amount number of hours I can handle to deliver my work properly. At this moment, I think 20 hours is a good number, less than 15 hours means I’m not attending the team or the clients and more than 20 means “you’re … Read more
Recently I have listened it from a PM regarding to the fact that we request him to do a meeting minutes. This answer let me understand the ignorance of this person about his understanding of what a meeting minutes can mean with regards to its value in terms of ‘agreement’ during the execution of a … Read more
Environment – BES – Lotus Domino Background You are working with the ACL granting whole access to the application. Everything works, but suddenly you retire the anonymous access to the application and all crash. Problem The access of the MDS Studio and the final mobile device is not possible due to these applications do not … Read more
The PMO creation approach is clear for me, I have read 2 books about this process and we are working on a new PMO. Nevertheless, now we are facing the change of an existing PMO that is not working properly. Thanks to Glen Alleman’s recommendation I bought this book: The Handbook of Program Management, James … Read more
This behaviour is something I have seen on software development environments but this time I have seen on projects. A PM is trying to adopt one of latest trend as the panacea for their current problems. We have told him what problems is having, but he does not want to recognize them, just change to … Read more
Which Projects are more aligned to PM methodology? Infrastructure or Application projects? During the check of the health of the projects we point to this alignment as another factor. With it, we have discovered that in general infrastructure projects follow the methodology in a better way than application projects. Why? Are the best PMs on … Read more
When dealing with a team of project managers, to work with them to improve their capabilities and be able to be consistent and equal with every body, you need a framework that enable you to have common path forward. PM10, or project management 10 is a framework we all use in CSC for the assessment … Read more