Like most kids in the civilized world north of the equator, my three daughters all went back to school this week.  The eldest has just gone away to university for first year and she happens to have chosen my alma mater, so moving her in to residence this weekend brought back lots of memories of... [More]

If you have new information how will you run your organization differently? If you are not ready to make changes in your company, having new information will not contribute new value. You must be ready to break old habits. You must be ready to make new decisions based on the facts. For instance, ... [More]

In our organization we develop software for clients.  As part of that process we need to gather feedback from our clients when they encounter a bug.  We use Team Foundation Server 2010 internally for all aspects of our software development practice including bug collection.  We wanted... [More]

This summer we had a BBQ with some visitors from Denmark. I knew the person growing up. She moved to Denmark (which is her family origins) about twenty years ago and has rarely been back to Canada since. My sister showed up with a drink she purchased on the way over. When asked what is was she said,... [More]

There may have various data sources in one enterprise using by different applications, SharePoint as a portal it will have need to integrate business data from back-end server applications. This is BDC came out in SharePoint 2007. Connecting to external data in SharePoint with BDC in SharePoint 200... [More]

  Within the project management industry we often see people include “forecast status” as an element of project status reports along with current status and previous status. The expectation is Project Managers will include a status of what they think the status will be for the next reporting ... [More]

From inception through to deployment how efficient is your organization with its information about projects? As a project goes through its lifecycle a multitude of information is collected, stored and reported on. Often this grows organically as different groups involved in a project collect and sto... [More]

Just recently I read a book called “Fearful Symmetry – The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values” by Brian Lee Crowley.  http://www.brianleecrowley.com/    The book is very interesting for those of us who are concerned with Canada’s place in the world and what our country wil... [More]