All I Want for Festivus: My Reporting Wishlist
The fine folks at with the Microsoft Product Team issued a request for the community to help them out…
Organizational health for Agile Adoption: Key traits of Schedule Facilitators
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile…
BizTalk Help Tips (Enlisting exception error)
Here’s a helpful hint, in case you run into a problem trying to enlist an orchestration. If you run into…
EPMSource on Extending the Backstage
Looks like a good series of posts from newly minted Project MVP, Alex Burton – How to extend the Project…
Fixing OpsMgr Gateway Approval Failures
This week we ran into a couple of issues when attempting to approve a new gateway in our environment which…
Should I Get a Graduate Degree in Software Engineering?
I recently decided to go back to school to get a degree in software engineering from the University Of Texas…
SSD Performance Test
I’ve been running an SSD as my primary drive for a few weeks now and it performs quite well without…
QuickTricks: Transfer or re-use Savision Live Maps between environments
We have an environment with multiple management groups: One for a lab (an all-in-one environment – discussed here), as well…
Epistemological Challenges in Tool Deployments
Organizations often implement EPM tools to capture tribal secrets at imminent risk of walking out the door as newer generations…
Back to the Basics: Rolling Up % Complete and Elapsed Duration
% Complete and Actual Duration are two of those fields that everyone uses, but few people actually understand the…