This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, not to annoy people and about specification. Today’s diagram is about communication, its model, the problems you… Read More »
Changing a service startup type can be crucial after installing or configuring the service. PowerShell comes with an easy way to do so: Set-Service –Name theservice –Computer thecomputer –StartupType “selectedType” Where selectedType value can be: Automatic Manual Disabled Unfortunately, there is no support for the automatic (delayed start). To support the automatic (delayed start), you… Read More »
An easy trick but often helpful in need of automation. I recently noticed that it was not possible to do: Start-Service –Name theservice –Computer thecomputer Instead we have to follow this rather ugly way: (Get-WmiObject -computerName thecomputer Win32_Service -Filter “Name=’theservice'”).StartService() To stop the service, same idea: (Get-WmiObject -computerName thecomputer Win32_Service -Filter “Name=’theservice'”).StopService() 0 Kudos… Read More »
This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, schedules, and about not to annoy people. Today’s diagram is about the composition of a specification. A specification… Read More »
This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, and about schedules. I believe all point are pretty straight forward to understand on this topic. My key… Read More »
This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, about building trust, and about dealing with crisis. Below diagram is about schedules (not your personal schedule but a team schedule). The interesting… Read More »
This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought about making decision and about building trust. Below diagrams show some tactics to deal with crisis in project management. We first look into the different types of crises… Read More »
I finally created an account for Windows Azure, it is quite easy to do so and the cost are very affordable (if you have a MSDN premium subscription as each Microsoft employee does :)). I never really had the opportunity learning in-depth IIS and ASP.net so now that I have this server available, I am starting! The… Read More »
Trust is probably the number one facilitator in people communication (after speaking the same language probably). With trust, people knows they can rely on what you commit to do. With trust, people knows what you are asking them to do is relevant to a project or team goals thus enabling them to do a great… Read More »
Below code can be handy if you need to create a powershell session under a different credential than the one you are logged into. This allow to support multiple scenarios: Test role base access control Increase privilege for important operation [powershell] # Avoid displaying the UI prompt when creating credential object Set-ItemProperty ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds’ ConsolePrompting $true… Read More »
How to make decisions[/caption]The last month, I have been reading an excellent book by Scott Berkun: how to make things happen. This book is definitely targeting project and program managers but it has so much practical value that I would recommend reading it to any person willing to take more responsibility in its current team.… Read More »
1 year already that we (my family and I) moved to the Pacific Northwest area, specifically in Seattle area (we are actually in a suburban neighborhood called Kirkland). The adaptation to this new place is going smoothly, the mentality is quite similar to the one we were used to in Switzerland but friendlier so we… Read More »
Six years ago, I was still a student at the University of Geneva, I decided to host myself a blog in order to be able to share my ideas and views with other people. It was also a convenient way for me to be able to remember some random ideas I would have read or… Read More »
A few weeks ago I had the chance to win at a tombola organized at SASQAG (Seattle Area Software Quality Assurance Group) an entry ticket for the PNSQC (Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference). With this ticket in my pocket, we decided (with my wife and kids) to have a trip to Portland, OR. I haven’t… Read More »
Last Sunday, my family and I landed in Seattle airport after more than ten hours traveling. We then settled in a temporary housing in Kirkland, with a breathtaking view on Washington Lake. So far, we are all excited and happy to be here! On Monday morning, I was at Microsoft for the New Employee Orientation… Read More »