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Posts about Evergreen IT Management (6)

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How To Drive Maximum Velocity Windows 10 Upgrades In 10 Steps

For decades, large IT Transformation projects have been planned using manual spreadsheets or hand-cranked databases. All required steps were neatly visualized in a massive MS Project Gantt Chart — of ...

Barry Angell
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Is Microsoft's Modern IT Vision And Co-Management Replacing Traditional Image-Based Management?

In the past week, Microsoft asked me to speak at the Windows Partner Deployment Day about the infrastructure, project management & readiness support for effective Windows-as-a-Service ...

Barry Angell
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Security or Performance? Spectre & Meltdown Fixes Will Slow Down Older PCs

2018 started with a bang for those in cyber-security — and almost everyone else running a device that uses an Intel, AMD or ARM chip made from the mid-nineties till today. News broke (and spread like ...

Barry Angell
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Overcoming Shadow IT With Deployment-as-a-Service

In 1876, a plant new to the United States called Kudzu, was introduced at the Japanese Pavillion at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Due to its fast growth, the Soil Conservation Service ...

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The Evergreen IT Budget Dilemma — And How To Solve It

The summer is almost over — which, for a lot of IT managers, means they need to start planning and preparing for upcoming budget rounds in the fall. And unless you are one of the lucky few that saw a ...

Barry Angell
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User Acceptance Testing In A Business-As-Usual Environment

Traditionally, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is performed at the end of a long software development cycle by the intended audience under real-world conditions. By then, engineering has performed a ...

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Windows 10 Migration Through BAU Hardware Refresh = No Project Required?

Did you know that most organizations run on devices that are between two to four years old — making them a prime candidate for a complete (or partial) hardware refresh initiative on the back of their ...

Barry Angell

The Future Of IT: Self-Service IT Transformation Management

A few days before April Fool's Day 2015, Amazon announced its Amazon’s Dash Replenishment Service — a service that allows Amazon Prime members to replenish frequently-used products at the push of a ...

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5 Things Every CFO Must Know About Long-Term IT Investments

Today's executive management is fighting on several fronts: On the one side is the ever-increasing and looming cloud of Digital Disruption that is threatening well-established players even in the ...

Barry Angell

Big Bang Project, Perpetual Mini-Projects or Business As Usual — Which End User IT Migration Approach Is Right For You?

Like most enterprise IT project managers, you are probably up to your elbows in the midst of planning or rolling out Windows 10 to your entire user base. For your organization, this might encompass ...

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3 Crucial Steps Every Organization Must Take Before Achieving Evergreen IT

With IT departments battling stagnant or minimal increases in budget for several years in a row, the management of a massive IT transformation projects (such as a Windows 10 upgrade) is a somewhat ...

Barry Angell

Office 365 and Windows 10: Your Stepping Stones To A Successful Evergreen IT Implementation

For many years, Evergreen IT has been imagined by many CTO's and CIO's as the cure-all for their IT management issues. But sadly, many organizations have tried and failed to implement Evergreen IT, ...

Barry Angell