The “G” word is one of those words that’s bandied about with increasing abandon these days – but for many, “governance” is just a more sexy way of saying “management” (in the same way that “architecture” is quite often used as a sexy way of saying “design”). So how much are organisations really walking the [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by admin
Yesterday I spent the evening at a dinner in London as a stand-in for my colleague Bola Rotibi, talking about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and governing software delivery to a group of around 20 senior IT leaders. Due to my own disorganisation I’d not realised that this was a stand-up talk with no visuals or [...]
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 by admin
Technoracle (a.k.a. "Duane’s World"): How to work with Adobe Really thoughtful resource from Duane Nickull that pulls together all the resources and programs available for those wanting to take build on the Adobe Flash platform. How many other vendors have done this? Jeff Jonas: Ontology And Why I Am Not Obsessed With This Fancy Little [...]
Posted on Friday, March 6, 2009 by admin
Today we finally published a case study report we’ve been working on in the background for some months, looking at an implementation by University College London Hospitals (UCLH) to address the UK Government’s “18 week referral-to-treatment” National Health Service target. UCLH and its IT services partner Logica have used Lombardi‘s Teamworks and Blueprint, and their [...]
Posted on Thursday, March 5, 2009 by admin
Socialtext today announced the general availability of its enterprise microblogging tool, Socialtext Signals. In private beta with Socialtext customers since September, Signals provides capabilities similar to tools such as Twitter, but within a secure enterprise context. Signals is embedded in the Socialtext collaboration platform, and allows individuals to post short broadcast messages – for example related [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 by Angela Ashenden
At CeBIT today, Software AG announced the launch of new brand AlignSpace – home of a new “social network” for BPM professionals. There are three elements to AlignSpace: A collaborative process discovery and modelling tool. A social network built around the tool, highlighting connections between people, projects, skills and resources. A marketplace for systems integrators, [...]
Posted on Monday, March 2, 2009 by admin