In 2013 Van Haren Publishing has worked with Gunther Verheyen, director of the Professional Series at Scrum.org, on a book about Scrum for our Best Practices series. On November 4 it was published as “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” (A Smart Travel Companion). I have learned, from Gunther and his book, that Scrum certifications not …
In 2013 Van Haren Publishing has worked with Gunther Verheyen, director of the Professional Series at Scrum.org, on a book about Scrum for our Best Practices series. On November 4 it was published as “Scrum – A Pocket Guide” (A Smart Travel Companion). I have learned, from Gunther and his book, that Scrum certifications not …
Have you ever wondered why large organisations have a hard time delivering quality services and keeping their costs under control? Why your project, best practice or investment could not deliver to its promise? At a leading IT services organisation, it turned out a communication gap between central organisations and the field undermined all sorts of …
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The PRISM scandal Last week whistle-blower Edward Snowden revealed in the Guardian and the Washington Post that the US National Security Agency captures and catalogues enormous amounts of data from computer and telephone networks like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Skype, Verizon and Apple. This information caused a lot of reactions in the USA and Europe …
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A New Way to Look at Cloud Computing “The CIO as Supply Chain Manager” and “Industrialized IT services” are some of the more recently coined terms used in IT, and not without reason. It is these types of terms which are very appealing to use when there is a need to produce IT services in …
The basics ISO/IEC 38500:2008 provides guiding principles for directors of organizations (including owners, board members, directors, partners, senior executives, or similar) on the effective, efficient, and acceptable use of IT within their organizations. Target audience Senior managers; members of groups monitoring the resources within the organization; external business or technical specialists, such as legal or …
The age of public services Not too long ago, essential facilities in the European countries were developed and exploited by our governments. These facilities were public and the people delivering the services were civil servants at that time. In the Netherlands we had public post offices and mail services, a public telecommunication and broadcasting organization, …
mmmmmmm!….makes sense! What does the title mean? I will explain shortly. I am convinced now more than ever that IT leadership skills are a must for all IT managers. The good news is we are starting to recognize this. With the growing importance of IT to all organizations, coupled with the explosive growth of emerging …
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mmmmmmm!….makes sense! What does the title mean? I will explain shortly. I am convinced now more than ever that IT leadership skills are a must for all IT managers. The good news is we are starting to recognize this. With the growing importance of IT to all organizations, coupled with the explosive growth of emerging …
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Agile for teams is easy; Agile for organisations is hard. Organisational benefits will not arise from continuous improvement on team level. To get radical results, continuous improvement is not good enough, we need radical change! Agile is often applied to teams only, but is this enough? Perhaps this will result in increased speed of development …
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