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…
Organizational health for Agile adoption: Key traits of Development Leads
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile…
Performance Reviews Are Obsolete
Why do organizations conduct employee performance reviews? This question has been pestering me for some time now. We had implemented…
Duplicate Drivers Helper Script
Importing duplicate drivers into Configuration Manager has adequately been covered by Johan and William Bracken. The process that both outline…
CTSMUG Presentation
Here is my slide deck from a ConfigMgr OSD 101 and Best Practices presentation I recently gave at the Central…
USMT 4.0 in ConfigMgr Quick FAQ
Q. What’s new in USMT 4? A. Easier to reference a link on this one: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560752(WS.10).aspx. Here’s a quick list…
Organizational health for Agile adoption: Key traits of Customer Champions
This post is a continuation of my series on adopting healthy practices that enable an organization to make the agile…
How do I exclude a specific alert from being sent to specific users in OpsMgr?
Subscriptions in Operations Manager can be complex to create and configure. The key concept to consider is how to architect…
Identifying the Parameters of an EPM Consulting Engagement
Every good consulting engagement begins with a good written proposal. Most proposals that I’ve seen include some section somewhere buried…