Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Thought this may be helpful for those looking at a Governance Process and Gate Reviews for project management.  This aligns the Capita...

Managing IT projects is no easy task. You've got to get the requirements right.  Technical issues need to be resolved.  Dependen...

So in multiple organizations, I have heard systems referred to as ugly babies! Whether or not it's true, it certainly doesn't mak...

This was a funny Dilbert on Requirements Management.  In IT, we all know that getting requirements can be like pulling teeth.  No one ei...

One of my colleagues at work had this hanging on his wall.  It caught my eye and I thought it was worth sharing. The creative process...

So software versioning is supposed to be a way to manage change control.  However, many vendors have gone out of control with versioning...

This was a funny cartoon.  Who are we?   Clients! What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now! This is like...

In IT circles, IV&V generally refers to Independent Verification and Validation, but for CIOs another important definition for leading...

Flowcharts have been used for quite some time for visualizing and organizing business processes and making them more efficient (e.g. busine...

Fascinating opinion piece by Fisman and Sullivan in the Wall Street Journal on Friday (15 March 2013) called " The Unsung Beauty of ...

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

Ever since the battles of Windows versus Linux, there have been two strong competing philosophies on systems architecture. Many have...

I don’t know about you, but I have always been a pretty big believer that you get what you pay for. That is until everything Internet ca...

Recently, Kshemendra Paul, Chief Enterprise Architect, at the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made the following criti...

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...

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

The Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2007 reports that “ new [DIY] tools let businesspeople avoid the IT department and create their own co...

User-centric EA seeks to align the various life cycle IT system processes to help users understand, navigate, and complete these as simply a...