Monthly archives: January, 2008

CM Best Practices – Two Lists and One of Mine

A colleague forwarded to me a pointer to the current issue of the ITMPI journal, on Best Practices in Configuration Management. They make an interesting contrast with the best CM practices in the November issue of the CM Journal on “What Best Practice Is Best?”, and specifically the article CM: The Next Generation of Top …

Generic Cordial

Another cordial this weekend, this time using bulk white nectarines from the grocer. They were too hard to be eaten, but made good cordial. I used a nectarine instantiation of my father’s generic cordial recipe. He created this recipe based on Matt’s recipe for orange cordial, but tweaked it after various trials, and made it …

Why Not is not Can Not

Our paper “An Exploratory Study of Why organisations Do Not Adopt CMMI” has started to be cited in the literature. It’s been in the “hottest 25 downloads” for the journal since it became available 3 quarters ago, so I’m hopeful the number of citations might grow. On one hand, it’s great to cited! On the …