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The rate at which Amazon has been adding to and improving its cloud computing services is impressive. If we just consider some of the announcements made to the storage services in June 2010. Firstly consider the Relational Database Service (RDS). This is now available in all AWS regions.The RDS can now be managed from the […]

Whatever one says about Microsoft, you have to acknowledge that they do build good tools. The developer has always been at the heart of Microsoft’s business strategy and Microsoft has always delivered well thought out development tools. Specifically, for the Azure developer, the latest release of the Azure Toolkit for Visual Studio offers some nice […]

I am pleased to announce that the materials for Learning Tree International’s new Cloud computing course are now complete and ready to run. This course has been challenging, yet highly enjoyable to develop. Titled Cloud Computing Overview: Evaluating the Opportunities, the course is one half a day in duration and is aimed at providing attendees […]

Many folks ask me if holding a PMP credential makes a difference in my work as a renegade project manager.  The answer, simply stated is “Yes!”  Job opportunities these days tend to filter out people who are not certified in their areas of expertise, regardless of their years of experience.  I have always viewed professional […]

When it’s time to figure out how to approach risk management on your projects, you need to start from the top down.  Step 1 is to establish a risk management policy and high-level approach that applies consistently across all projects in the organization.  Once that is agreed upon, then it’s time to figure out the details.   […]