I hear this expression often, particularly in the software development world where it is a constant source of frustration that those tasked with fixing something broken are the very people previously prevented from taking proactive action to prevent the break from occurring. It doesn't become their problem until it becomes a problem - and the impact to the business creates a time pressure that produces a reactive fix of poor quality. But it works...
" If know-how is knowing what to do to make change happen, do-how is doing what needs to be done - There's a BIG difference"
Everyone knows that change can be hard. Sometimes you feel yourself going round in circles, revisiting the same challenges time and again. But there is another way, and it need not be complicated.
In November 2010, Steven Walther wrote on his blog about the decision by Microsoft to support jQuery, and announced a closer tie between Microsoft and jQuery. John Resig had agreed to consider accepting plugins that had been written by Microsoft. Resig and Scott Guthrie had appeared together at the MIX10 conference earlier that year, and by November, Microsoft announced that three of their plugins had been accepted as part of the official jQuery plugins library:
According to the CHAOS Manifesto from the Standish Group Agile projects are successful three times more often than non-agile projects!
The report goes so far as to say, “The agile process is the universal remedy for software development project failure. Software applications developed through the agile process have three times the success rate of the traditional waterfall method and a much lower percentage of time and cost overruns.” (this is from page 25)
So an important question is what is Project success?
Posted by Chris Jones on Thu, 18/10/2012 - 11:37am
Two very different courses over the last two weeks, lead to lots of questions into what ITIL really means. What they both had in common was the ever present question “What is a service?”
Posted by Adam White-Bower on Fri, 28/09/2012 - 12:00pm
I've been using Microsoft MVC for a few years now, so I was, of course interested in the new MVC 3 (released early 2011).
And what a surprise - there's a whole new language called Razor!
I can still use traditional "code-behind" files (.aspx), but I'm being encouraged to use Razor instead. At 1st glance, Razor looks a bit like Classic ASP, but in fact it's got more in common with Haml (or NHaml).
Until now, Microsoft have had a fractured take on how to create RESTful Web Services. WCF has generally been pushed, but WCF didn't fit in so well with MVC.
So now the Microsoft MVC and WCF teams have got together and created a new, combined product, which looks neater and simpler than the offerings to date.
Maybe it is who we are engaging with at the moment. Or maybe our sales team have learnt a new question to ask. Maybe it is the way the world is now, after all Greece is still on the edge of imploding, if you would believe everything you read. But I seem to be getting an increase number of tenders and proposal through for their varying clients.
Just been looking at updating the Linux Admin course to bring it in line with new developments, in particular the Heads-up display features as well as the new Unity desktop and Gnome 3.
Microsoft Windows Server 8 has arrived, (well at least in Beta version) and the message from Microsoft is clear. Its here to challenge VMware and Citrix for cloud hosting to supply services, data storage and applications for private organisations, and hosting providers.
Posted by Martin Laslett on Mon, 16/04/2012 - 2:25pm
ITIL or the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, are a range of official publications from the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in the United Kingdom. ITIL has emerged as one of the worlds most widely accepted approach to the management and delivery of IT Services.
Posted by Chris Jones on Tue, 10/04/2012 - 12:00am
It is hard to know what to say in the first post such as this one. Trying to come up with a witty and imaginative title has obviously failed. So I think we will start with the why. Why have we launched a blog?
I hear this expression often, particularly in the software development world where it is a constant source of frustration that those tasked with fixing something broken are the very people previously prevented from taking proactive action to prevent the break from occurring. It doesn't become their problem until it becomes a problem - and the impact to the business creates a time pressure that produces a reactive fix of poor quality. But it works...
" If know-how is knowing what to do to make change happen, do-how is doing what needs to be done - There's a BIG difference"
In November 2010, Steven Walther wrote on his blog about the decision by Microsoft to support jQuery, and announced a closer tie between Microsoft and jQuery. John Resig had agreed to consider accepting plugins that had been written by Microsoft. Resig and Scott Guthrie had appeared together at the MIX10 conference earlier that year, and by November, Microsoft announced that three of their plugins had been accepted as part of the official jQuery plugins library:
Two very different courses over the last two weeks, lead to lots of questions into what ITIL really means. What they both had in common was the ever present question “What is a service?”
Maybe it is who we are engaging with at the moment. Or maybe our sales team have learnt a new question to ask. Maybe it is the way the world is now, after all Greece is still on the edge of imploding, if you would believe everything you read. But I seem to be getting an increase number of tenders and proposal through for their varying clients.
Microsoft Windows Server 8 has arrived, (well at least in Beta version) and the message from Microsoft is clear. Its here to challenge VMware and Citrix for cloud hosting to supply services, data storage and applications for private organisations, and hosting providers.
ITIL or the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, are a range of official publications from the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in the United Kingdom. ITIL has emerged as one of the worlds most widely accepted approach to the management and delivery of IT Services.
It is hard to know what to say in the first post such as this one. Trying to come up with a witty and imaginative title has obviously failed. So I think we will start with the why. Why have we launched a blog?
