The Back of the Napkin

I have read this book interested in the idea of improving my knowledge in communication skills. I spend so much time building slides and adding some new perspective/style to the slides was other reason to read it. The idea around the book is oldest than the wheel, but the way each detail add a meaning … Read more

How I trace the Strategic Approach

It’s time to be accountable regarding the work done during the year. In addition we need to prepare the objectives for next year. With it, I spend a lot of time preparing presentations: reviewing objectives, comparing results with baselines, clarifying added value… As always I have to communicate the same message to different audiences, being … Read more

The Top Ten Misconceptions for Performance and Availability Monitoring

Great Article to review concepts -> Link You only need real or syntethic user monitoring You can model your environment manually. Monitoring software needs to reside in house. The Configuration Management database (CMDB) is a single physical repository of all knowledge. A Company’s infrastructure monitoring strategy can operate in its own detached silo. You need … Read more

Corporate Social Responsibility

Seeing the news of AIG and the spending of $440.000 in a resort and the words provided as justification: “It’s a standard practice in our Industry”, I would like to review the effect of this fact in terms of corporate social responsibility. I can understand that this is a standard practice, but the lack of … Read more

Brainstorming via Post-it

Sometimes you don’t have the enough tools for working and then you need think in boxes and you find a solution. The problem? A little bit complex to establish good relationships. But the objective was to decide the right group, so easy.

SOX 2.0

Seeing the scenario opened in the financial world with the crisis created by some financial entities, I feel a little bit frustated. I will explain why. Three years ago the company I was working announced they were going to be in Nasdaq. With it, our boss came to a colleague and me and told us: … Read more

Domino.Doc Vs Quickr

Reading Paul Mooney’s blog I have found this post related to the tittle, and I couldn’t stop writting there. I feel very affected by this inheritance, 🙂 ———————————————–Domino.doc is that tool that all that has used it has hated it (at least a little bit).If you look for technical information in the Internet, there is … Read more

Reviewing Internal Processes

Working on a contract for 2009 I’m using the Preliminary Project Scope Statement process for defining the scenario of it. The client’s account lead is new in the process and one of the things that is doing the process slower is the lack of knowledge of this person in these kind of contracts. Really it’s … Read more