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                              Software Safari

I finally got moving on something I've wanted to do for a while. I've launched an additional, companion blog to Services Safari. This new blog is Software Safari and can be found at: www.softwaresafari.typepad.com.

Software Safari is focused on the tech side of operating businesses, projects, etc. This blog should appeal to buyers and sellers of application software and will soon get uploads of many of the research reports developed by TechVentive (www.techventive.com).  Editorially, it will be different in tone than say Vinnie's blog (www.dealarchitect.typepad.com) but between the two of us, the content should be quite useful to readers. Incidentally, Vinnie and I go way back. We've been arch-competitors, business partners, and on-stage sparring partners at different software events.

I hope you'll add this blog to your favorites or subscribe to the postings via Feedblitz.

Thanks,

Brian

Software 2006

Software 2006 Next Week

The Software 2006 show will be held this April 4-5 in Santa Clara. This event usually attracts over 1000 top technology executives, venture capitalists and others. A number of executives from leading outsourcing, offshore application development and major service firms are in attendance as well.

I’ve attended many times over the last few years and will do so again next week. I’ll be posting from there all next week. Look for me there.

Blog + PSA = New Killer App?

Blogs as a Project Management Tool?

There’s a short piece in the 3/6/6 issue of InfoWorld titled “Six Apart Brings Blogs to Businesses”. The most intriguing part of the story was a sentence that said “Corporate workers are increasingly usurping blogs and wikis for collaborative efforts such as project management and bug tracking.”

Years ago, I wish I had something like a blog technology to share bug fix information with other, even non-Accenture, project teams. I led the implementation teams of several ERP implementations back then and one vendor’s product had more holes than a block Swiss cheese. I did manage to create informal collaboration links with other users of that software product but it was time consuming and hard to do. A blog would have worked so much better.

At another time in my career I was dealing with an email/knowledge sharing tool that many consultants still use today. My dissatisfaction with that product was the extreme amount of time it took to create a new knowledge sharing database within the product. Complicating matters was the fact that any new database addition (or change) required CIO approval. I could finish five client projects before I could have made any of these changes.

The newer technologies resonate with me as they can:

-          be quickly built/deployed

-          do not require internal CIO approval

-          do not affect internal systems

-          get rapid answers to consultants and others with similar issues

Non-hosted solutions cannot make that claim. Most PSA and PPM solutions also meet these criteria.

Time is money for most service professionals and tools that place critical information into the hands of these workers fast and inexpensively are a boon to clients, users and the service firms that incorporate them into their tool chests.

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