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I work on Application Portfolio Management activities in a simple way. The first thing is to assess the mix of applications and their value to business. The second thing is to determine the organization goals that in my case is mainly reduce the cost of applications maintenance and seek the most cost effective IT environment. … Read more
Something to remind for future: the cable from the American Embassy in Madrid about the spanish government and some of their members: S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 06 MADRID 000071 SIPDISPASS TO ELAINE SAMSON AND STACIE ZERDECKI AT EUR/WE,JANICE BELL AT INRTOBY BRADLEY AT NSCE.O. 12958: DECL: 01/20/2034TAGS: OVIP PINS PREL … Read more
I have faced some problems installing a language pack for Joomla. These are the actions to remind: 1.- Set “language” folder security from 644 to 777 2.- Set “administrator/language” folder security from 644 to 777 3.- Set “tmp” folder security from 644 to 755 4.- change in “configuration.php” from: var $tmp_path = ‘/home/xxx/domains/xxx.com.es/public_html/xxx/tmp’; to: var … Read more
I’m happy Today, I will go to my parents home tomorrow morning, almost one month of holidays after one challenging year, believe me. It has been crazy, but I have learnt a lot of important things. Now: Time for hobbies, Time for family, Time for friends, Time to write here, Time to imagine what can happen … Read more
Today we had a meeting with the neighbourhood, in summary a perfect place to do not reach any agreement. It’s the perfect situation where 12 parts are not able to align the details of the same goal. It has been a good exercise to try to align all objectives, try to seek in what are … Read more
When you try to transmit ideas you can repeat and repeat the ideas you want to put in other mind. First, tell what you are going to tell,then, tell it,Finally, tell what you have told. The important thing is that it sounds convincing and not like a broken record,
I have sent to a service manager an e-mail with some key points we have to take care for 2011 during the service execution and that are changes to 2010. As answer, I have received: From: Service ManagerTo: myself Hello joapen, Thanks for the update ! This information is useful to me too. Maybe we … Read more
There are some conditions we have to create if you want to have a group of people as a team: Person competence, you need people with enough competences, some of them complementary. Clear & defined functions, for all team guys and clear channels of communication (inbound/outbound). Authority, to decide on some aspects, features, behaviours… that … Read more
In your work environment you have 2 things you take care: The goals related to the work you do, and the relationships you establish with people. These 2 aspects walk in different directions and sometimes is complex to reach a good balance. If your behaviour is so aggressive, you will walk through your goals but … Read more