by Charles Rattray | 26 Nov 2008 | Permalink |
I’ve been asked this question many times recently and thought I’d add a note here to clarify. A baseline from a Tideway perspective is two things: a concept and a tangible result.
What does this mean?
In terms of a concept a baseline is a snapshot of the configuration which…
by Steve Watts | 13 Nov 2008 | Permalink | Open Source, Software
This week we released the latest Tideway Knowledge Update (TKU). For those who aren’t familiar with TKUs they are monthly updates of patterns that extend and enhance Tideway’s software discovery capability.
The November release includes 9 new products and 2 enhancements extending Tideway’s coverage of:
by Andy Ormsby | 29 Oct 2008 | Permalink |
This week’s Economist (October 23rd 2008) contains a special report on “Corporate IT”. A section of this talks about data centre and contains some great statistics. One of the more surprising statistics to many readers may be the statement that “nearly 30% [of servers] are no longer in use at all, but no one has bothered to remove them.”
How on earth could that happen?
by Charles Rattray | 24 Oct 2008 | Permalink |
Talking to a configuration manager earlier this week with a looming data center move ahead them, it was interesting to hear about the company’s ‘fact gap’. This company has approximately half a dozen configuration management tools deployed, each implemented with varying degrees of success across the IT estate. As each…
by Charles Rattray | 15 Oct 2008 | Permalink |
I went to Vegas and didn’t gamble a dime!
It’s true, and probably says a lot about the missing links between the parts of my brain which control fun, and the parts that deal with risk. To rectify this I probably need to go through an intensive set of applied…
by Charles Rattray | 26 Sep 2008 | Permalink |
Following a recent engagement, one of our PMs produced the lessons learnt details provided below. Often lessons seem obvious and we sometimes wonder why some basic stuff manages to trip us up. More importantly, not all lessons represent negative behavior or outcomes – there are positive lessons we can repeat.…
by Simon Woodward | 24 Sep 2008 | Permalink | Everything Else, Open Source, Software
Cisco’s Windows VPN client is a decent bit of software in that it’s stable, easy to use and it does what it says on the tin. However, I found myself wishing for an alternative… and much fun ensued.
by Allan Mertner | 16 Sep 2008 | Permalink | Software, User Experience, Web 2.0
In a software company, deciding which one of a big pile of conflicting priorities to work on next is one of the hardest things to get right. And it is critical to the business: If your process for doing this works, you end up with products that your customers and…
by Charles Rattray | 14 Aug 2008 | Permalink | IT Management
The desire to be different in strategy is what creates sustainable competitive advantage.
Borrowing Michael Porter’s thinking from ‘What is Strategy’, (1996), successful IT departments will be those that can capture a unique competitive position. Porter goes on to say that “A period of imitation may be inevitable in emerging…
by Charles Rattray | 11 Aug 2008 | Permalink |
“Good company situation analysis, like good industry and competitive analysis, is a valuable precondition for good strategy making” (Thompson A. A, Strickland A. J, Gamble J. E. (2007). Crafting and Executing Strategy, McGraw-Hill Irwin., p.127), but like all things in life – ‘rubbish in, rubbish out’. Possibly the first thing…
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