Welcome to First Edition of ‘IT Management Blog Carnival’. 15 posts were submited to this edition of carnival but only 8 went through the selection process. The next edition will be posted in one month. The submition deadline is on 31st October. Next time I’m going to add also not submitted posts, but found by…
Just a quick news, if you go to The Art of Service website you’ll be able to subscribe theirs newsletter and then you’ll be given an oppottunity to download for free “ITIL V3 Implementation Quick Guide – The Art of Stress-Free IT Service Management”, which normally costs about 30 USD. It will be very helpful for…
Over a year ago I wrote an article about free Microsoft Project files browser / reader. I described the application called Live Project made by Kadonk. Live Project has proved to be a great viewer of mpp files, dealing both with older versions of files such as MS Project and MS Project 2007 files. He…
During youtube browsing I found a collection of movies that are fragments of ITIL v3 lectures by Marco Cattaneo from Charles Stuart University. The movies can be found on the youtube, but for your convinience I put them together in one place. So it looks like the free ITIL foundation v3 training. There are not…
If you are already happy holders of ITIL Service Manager Certificate (Manager’s Certificate in IT Service Management), which confirms your in-depth knowledge of all ITIL version 2 processes at manager-level, it is the highest time to start thinking of pursuing ITIL Expert certification. “Red Badge” holders should attend in the accredited training – ITIL v3…
I would like to thank you for the many comments, tips and suggestions to the previous two parts of the article. The second part of the post was particularly popular, it compares Certification: PRINCE2, PMI (PMP) and the IPMA. As promised (though much later) the next part of the article will address mainly about…
KPI is the abbreviation for key performance indicators; I think that is probably one of the most abused words in the business language. I can safely say that it has gained the status of the so-called buzzword. Nowadays, practically there is no presentation of IT system or service system for, which does not use the…
The second part of the FAQ about earning PDUs and PMP recertification. Please enjoy it, I hope it will help you earn required numbers of PDUs to renew ourr PMP certificate.…
Finally, I’ve got some time to finish the table witha comparioson of the most popular project management certifications families: PMP, Prince2 and IPMA. The following table compares 3 certificates, you can also download the full version of the table (CAPM, PMP, PgMP, Prince2 Foundation, Prince 2 Practitioner, IPMA-D, IPMA-C, IPMA-B, IPMA-A certificates)…
There is a very good time of the year to make a New Year’s resolution. One resolution in the professional life can be: ‘to obtain a certificate in project management’. But you can easily find several different certificates that are issued by different organizations. Which one to choose? I hope that, this article will help you…