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

This was a funny true story that happened recently.  Someone found a roach walking around their desk in the office.  Not knowing who ...

Just wanted to share this best practice for Kanban or Visual Task Boards This is a way to layout work/workflow and track and communica...

So true story... One of my collegues was giving me a status on an IT problem in the office.  With a very straight face, he goes, ...

This is not a framework or vendor endorsement, but I liked this simple video explaining ITIL version 3. It explains the five key IT service ...

Services listed under ITIL and enterprise architecture models are different in nature, said Andy Blumenthal, chief technology officer at the...

IT projects are notorious for coming in late, over cost, and not meeting the customer’s needs. CIO.com has an excellent article on ways to...

I came across an interesting IT Governance Global Status Report 2008 from the IT Governance Institute. The study and report was conducte...

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...

Both EA and ITIL are emerging disciplines that are growing in importance and impact. Here are their basic definitions: EA synthesizes b...

Enterprise architecture and portfolio management are closely linked activities. EA drives IT investment management (including the IT portfo...

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and User-Centric Enterprise Architecture are both customer driven and focused on pr...