Hungry for Change08/19/2008 by Michael Loebbert
How hungry are you for change? - Clearly, ‘change’ is in itself not a serious management approach. Without content and its implementation change remains an empty talk. Successful executives connect therefore contentful imagination with execution. In the recent study “Enterprise of the Future” by IBM (www.ibm.com/enterpriseofthefuture) executive officers, selected all over the world, tell about [...]
Is Tool-Supported Test Management Profitable?08/18/2008 by Marco Gerussi
Every software project targets at providing high-quality software within the frame of a cost and time schedule. tool-based IT test management usually accompanies the whole software development process and partly adds to reaching this goal. This includes tasks like requirements management, test planning, test design, test execution, test evaluation as well as a superordinate defects [...]
Poker - Change Management’s Fruit Fly08/12/2008 by Nicolaj Ammann
As many others amongst my friends, I am addicted to poker. When I say poker, I am referring to the omnipresent Texas Hold´em Poker, and not to one of the Draw Poker versions that to my opinion rank among the games of pure chance.
In my 2 years poker career, I have gone through the following [...]
How not to Disclose a Secret – HP´s ERP4IT08/11/2008 by Dieter Steiger
Whereas ERP is a synonym for software-supported Enterprise Planning and Controlling, ERP4IT stands for software-supported IT Planning and Controlling (ITPC).
Those who are looking for solutions will without much doubt check out the ERP4IT offerings of the leading ERP system manufacturer SAP. SAP seems to be the only ERP software vendor for managing one´s own customer [...]
Can a Classic CMDB Cope With Business Service Management?08/07/2008 by Andreas Schegg
Today´s IT in its role as service provider for the enterprise requires an immediate rethinking with regard to resources and configurations data management.
If the datastore is not flexible enough, requirements resulting from service lifecycle management (SLM) might not be met to a satifactory degree and the provisioning of the CMDB services might not be as [...]
E2E SAP Testing – Halfway Under Control?08/05/2008 by Peter Helfenstein
In many blogs, we have discussed the deficiencies in SAP testing. Changes to an existing system are the order of the day. Again and again, errors are corrected, customizing and programs must be adapted, new functions are rolled out. Also, technical changes as hot fixes and service packs must be installed, as well as upgrades. [...]