Implementing ISO 27001 – What’s Involved?

Posted by admin on February 21, 2012 in IT Governance 0 Comments
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ISO/IEC 27001 is an Information Security Management System (ISMS) which  is designed to bring information security under management control. Implementing ISO 27001 involves understanding how an organisation functions in detail, as it’s implementation will involve fundamental changes to the way an organisation functions Every security rule that is implemented will make an impact on the [...]

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Traditional and Agile Project Management – What’s the Difference?

Posted by admin on February 20, 2012 in Agile & Scrum 0 Comments
Traditional or Agile Project Management - Which do I choose?

Traditional project management involves: – deliberate planning and control methods – distinct project life cycle phases – project tasks completed in an orderly sequence Traditional project management methods succeed where the project requirements can be tightly defined upfront and where there is little change during the project. This is often called the “Waterfall” model. For [...]

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IT Governance – What’s Involved?

Posted by admin on February 17, 2012 in IT 0 Comments
IT Governance Framework

Firstly, it’s important to make the distinction between governance and management. Governance is about establishing chains of responsibility and creating metrics, policies, standards and control mechanisms. Governance talks of decision making. Management talks of implementing the decisions efficiently. Governance decides the direction, management builds the road. IT governance, which began with merely good management of [...]

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TOGAF 9.1 – What’s New?

Posted by admin on February 8, 2012 in IT 0 Comments
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TOGAF 9.1 was released in December 2011. There are no new features in this version.  It is intended to introduce a number of relatively minor corrections and improvements to TOGAF version 9, launched at the start of 2009. Those who have recently certified (or who are in the process of training and certification) need not [...]

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Enterprise Architecture and TOGAF

Posted by admin on February 8, 2012 in IT 0 Comments
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Back to Basics Enterprise Architecture is said to have been born in 1987 with the publication in the IBM Systems Journal of John Zachman’s article, “A Framework for Information Systems Architecture.” Zachman identified the challenge and the vision of enterprise architectures that would help manage the complexity of increasingly distributed systems. Zachman’s vision was that [...]

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PRINCE2 Professional – New Project Management Certification

Posted by admin on February 8, 2012 in APM 0 Comments
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The PRINCE2 accreditation body, APM Group, has talked for several years about introducing a higher level PRINCE2 qualification which builds on the current Foundation and Practitioner certificates which are largely knowledge based. “PRINCE2 Professional” was finally launched on 30 January 2012.  Nikki Kelly, APMG Product Development Manager, says “We’ve responded to industry feedback which says that [...]

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How to Convince your Manager to Pay for Prince2 Training

Posted by admin on February 7, 2012 in PRINCE2 0 Comments
Convincing your manager to pay for Prince2 training can be easier than this

If you are trying to persuade your boss that Prince2 training would be a valuable addition to your skill set, here are some some convincing reasons:- Prince2 is the de facto Standard for Project Management Prince2 is the structured project management method that has become the international standard for organising, managing and controlling projects. It [...]

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ISEB Business Analysis Essentials – Name Change

Posted by admin on January 19, 2012 in Business Analysis 0 Comments
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ISEB Business Analysis Essentials is dead. Long live BCS Business Analysis Practice! ISEB Business Analysis Essentials is one of 2 core modules for those studying for the ISEB/BCS Business Analysis Diploma.  For a couple of reasons, the BCS (British Computer Society) is re-branding this course and associated certification. The actual content of the syllabus is [...]

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ITIL Training Grows at 20% Per Annum

Posted by admin on January 12, 2012 in Uncategorized 0 Comments

There are precious few reliable figures for growth in itil adoption and itil training. That makes the recent report by Rob England for the APM Group particularly interesting. He has reviewed 23 studies on adoption of ITIL Service Management and has also analysed recent statistics on take-up of itil certification exams. [Writing his ITIL Skeptic blog, Rob [...]

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IT Predictions for 2012 and Beyond

Posted by admin on January 12, 2012 in IT 0 Comments

Information technology research specialist Gartner is never averse to making provocative forecasts for the year(s) ahead.  They anticipate a slowdown in growth of spend on IT especially in Europe. Perhaps more interesting is the theme that the IT department is losing its pre-eminence as users and business managers take more control. “Mega trend” predictions can be useful and [...]

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