With the start of the New Year I’ll be kicking off a series of related posts. Through January, the Business Intelligence posts will be focused on going deep with the key metrics required for delivering projects. As a start, you can read the web article on Performance Management for the PMO or you ... [More]

If there is one thing I would encourage development departments to do in 2010 is to say goodbye to Visual SourceSafe (VSS) forever.  VSS was a fantastic product for its time.  When I first starting using it with Visual Basic 5.0 and 6.0 it was pretty much all there was.  It allowed de... [More]

Understanding where your organization’s strengths and weaknesses are has always been critical for success.  Nowhere is that more important than in the your organization’s application development team.  Understanding where your team is today and taking steps to improve can save real dollars... [More]

If you needed to look at one number (only one number) on a daily basis to run your Business what would it be? What would that number be for a weekly basis? Monthly? The next question is do you know what those three numbers are today? If not why not? If they are three of the most critical numbers to... [More]