Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " The Commandments are for All of Us ." While some Jews certainly thr...

This is a quick breakdown of the 3 types of Project Management Offices (PMOs). Enabling (Supportive) — Provides best practices, templat...

This is a beautiful set of nested brass weights from France.  It dates back to 1852! The weights range from 1 gram to 500 grams.  T...

This is a useful 4-part communications process (developed by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg): 1. Observations:   Tell the other person the beha...

One fundamental framework that I was always really impressed with and found basically true to life was Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs...

I found this great white paper by PM Solutions (2003) called " Selecting a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Methodology ....

I was fortunate to be in a terrific leadership development class this week held in coordination with University of Virginia, and one ...

In a leadership course this week, I was introduced to the “ Insights Wheel of Color Energies,” a framework for understanding people’s p...

The Information Management Framework (IMF ) provides a holistic view of the categories and components of effective information architecture....

The CIO Support Service Framework (CSSF) has 5 major components: Enterprise Architecture --for strategic, tactical, and operational planning...

One of the issues facing IT professionals these days isn’t a scarcity of IT frameworks, but rather many good frameworks that can be in confl...