Month: April 2008

BABOK

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if you didn’t have enough with the PMBOK, now you can find a new guide for Business analysis BABOK. Other reading for bed reading.

Excels

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Do you like Excel? Enjoy these templates, from these ones, I have used some ideas from this one. I like the idea of Resource Assignment Matrix, thinking in some projects of the past, it would help me.

YAGNI

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You Aren’t Gonna Need It !! How many usefulness features have I developed?? and finally they never were not used! How many hours discussing about extras? The waste cannot be completely removed from the Projects and thanks to good scope definitions & deliverables I have always eliminated the most of YAGNIs, but finally there is … Read more

Technology Service Organizations

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Today this post from pm411.org arrived to my RSS. Reading from one of these links to other link and so on I reach one that really got my attention: PMO 2.0: The Changing Face of Today’s PMO. True, I was influenced by the “2.0” 🙂 But after this, the reading is so interesting. The scenario … Read more

Get strategic about IT as a business value generator

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Reviewing some COTs defined by our Customer, there are some of them under a category named: ‘the hackett world-class’. Looking for more information I visited the Corporate Site and as the basic list of best practices was not enough, I tried to get another references from other Web Sites. This business advisory firm, is a … Read more

Best Practices of Agile focused on Management

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Take into account I’m learning about it, but I would like to summarize a short list of thoughts: Customers have to be active part of the project. They have to be involved in each revision of the project and take decisions about the scope of the project, approach, tailoring… The intermediate deliveries with working functionality … Read more

Who is against Reach?

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As you can imagine, the path to approve REACH legislation has not been easy. Greenpeace report shows how the chemicals industry is fighting to maintain its privilege position in the use chemicals substances without adequate control of the Use, Exposure and waste of them. Stages:1.- Deny the Problem,2.- Create fear over job looses and economic … Read more

Creative Live Cam Notebook does not work on Ubuntu

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After 3 months with Ubuntu, the only thing that I cannot get working is the Web Cam. The camera is: Creative Live Cam Notebook. I have installed linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic. After that I installed “gspcav1-20071224.tar.gz” from this link To do this I have followed the instructions from help.ubuntu Then the lsusb output is:Bus 005 Device 001: ID … Read more