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    Social Media and the Consensus Trap

    Roman Mildner 23.05.2013
    Social networks have been hyped for some time now as the Next Big Thing in the IT industry. While some of their advantages are obvious, it is important to consider that their not-so-obvious side effects might have far-reaching, questionable consequences. Read »
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    One minute that saves your career

    Roman Mildner 22.05.2013
    Does this sound familiar: you are just pondering over your half-finished e-mail which you may actually never want to send out and suddenly ... OOPS! Wrong button! You have just sent it out. Accidentally sent. Oh no, what have I done! Read »
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    Standards may be lethal to your projects

    Roman Mildner 13.05.2013
    Standards may be helpful to system developing organizations, but often they turn out to be part of the problem, or even become the actual problem. Read »
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    Processes stink!

    Roman Mildner 16.10.2012
    Standards can be useful in software development. A "clean and well-defined" collection of Best Practices (only recently known as "good practices") is potentially a useful idea. On the other hand, in the hands of an inexperienced person, powerful standards can lead to disastrous effects. Are they on the verge of extinction? Read »
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    Project coordinator, project leader or project manager?

    Roman Mildner 26.07.2012
    "Project manager wanted for a challenging project" – the request sounds promising. Whoever accepts it may live to regret it, however. Read »

  • Events

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    SPICE Conference 2012

    Robin Niesters 11.04.2012
    [ May 29, 2012 to May 31, 2012. ] The SPICE Conference 2012 takes place in Palma de Mallorca from the 29th to 31st of May. Now in its 20th year, the conference will focus on some of the implications of the new, more open architecture based on the work in-progress for the revision of the ISO/IEC 15504 family of related Standards (renamed as the ISO/IEC [...] Read »
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    Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit

    Robin Niesters 09.06.2011
    [ June 14, 2011 to June 15, 2011. ] The catch phrase "change" is also a predominant theme at the Gartner PPM and IT Governance Conference, which is held on the 14th and 15th June in London. In economically "turbulent times" especially management and planning need to be improved. Constant change just requires adaptation. The agenda is divided into three tracks: "Better Governance - [...] Read »
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    SPICE Conference 2011 – updated

    Robin Niesters 09.11.2010
    [ May 31, 2011 to June 1, 2011. ] The SPICE conference 2011 will take place in Dublin. The conference has as its central theme the revision of the standard SPICE (ISO / IEC 15504) to include it in the family of related standards for process assessment (ISO / IEC 33001-99). Papers submitted should deal with the issues of process assessment, process improvement and capability determination. A [...] Read »
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