<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 1/7/2009 6:30:41 AM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/business-it-blog/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=1a049d39-4c0b-4aed-804e-aae0bf55f980" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Doug Hoff</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:30:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint CKS:EBE</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Doug Hoff</title><url>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog</link></image><item><title>What really is ITIL?</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/2008/11/25/what-really-is-itil.aspx</link><guid>/business-it-blog/archive/2008/11/25/what-really-is-itil.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Business in modern times has been interested in focusing on the customer. Since we, the customers, have the cash that business wants, this makes sense. Peter Drucker, the business management godfather, has been hammering away for all of his career on this topic: 

Quality in a product or service i ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doug Hoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:07:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/IT standards/default.aspx">IT standards</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/ITIL/default.aspx">ITIL</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Service management/default.aspx">Service management</category></item><item><title>JavaScript found in trash – worth millions</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/2008/10/08/javascript-found-in-trash-–-worth-millions.aspx</link><guid>/business-it-blog/archive/2008/10/08/javascript-found-in-trash-–-worth-millions.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Since 2006, we’ve been in the midst of a programming revolution on the web that hasn’t been led by the big guns. In fact, the people have spurned Sun’s Java, Microsoft’s .NET, and even the open source PHP when it came to adding some functionality above that of the simple link on a web page. The se ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doug Hoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:30:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Web/default.aspx">Web</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/JavaScript/default.aspx">JavaScript</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Programming/default.aspx">Programming</category></item><item><title>SuperChrome is born - read the comic book</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/2008/09/04/SuperChrome is born - read the comic book.aspx</link><guid>/business-it-blog/archive/2008/09/04/SuperChrome is born - read the comic book.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

The browser wars have returned. And just in time because boy, was I getting bored. It seemed that things were getting too stable for good competition in the web arena. Internet Explorer had conceded to follow CSS standards, Firefox updated every other time you opened your browser, and let’s see… ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doug Hoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:12:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Web/default.aspx">Web</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Google/default.aspx">Google</category></item><item><title>Soy sauce and push-ups</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/2008/07/03/soy-sauce-and-pushups.aspx</link><guid>/business-it-blog/archive/2008/07/03/soy-sauce-and-pushups.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

I enjoy seeing what people are passionate or mad about through the Internet. In China, even though they have the Great Firewall to protect them from the outside culture, they still manage to find ways around it as all good computer enemies of the state have been doing for years. So we are still  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doug Hoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:59:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/International/default.aspx">International</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Internet culture/default.aspx">Internet culture</category></item><item><title>IT Project Managers in high demand</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/2008/06/11/it-project-managers-in-high-demand.aspx</link><guid>/business-it-blog/archive/2008/06/11/it-project-managers-in-high-demand.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

IT project managers are where the money is at. Yes, the economy just dumped 50,000 jobs as of last month but this is absolutely the best time to have a PMP and know your IT skills. A study conducted by the staffing firm Veritude says a little over half of the firms will increase their staff. Pay ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doug Hoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:15:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Career/default.aspx">Career</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Employment/default.aspx">Employment</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Project Management/default.aspx">Project Management</category></item><item><title>Ice cream and garbage collectors</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/2008/05/10/Ice cream and garbage collectors.aspx</link><guid>/business-it-blog/archive/2008/05/10/Ice cream and garbage collectors.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Imagine that your ice cream sales business had recently survived a tough time when the store manager decided to convert everything into the metric system to confuse you and customers so you could look like you made more money. You fired the manager four years ago knowing that your reputation was s ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doug Hoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 15:22:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/ERP/default.aspx">ERP</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Lawsuits/default.aspx">Lawsuits</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Software testing/default.aspx">Software testing</category></item><item><title>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Metrics</title><link>http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/2008/05/01/A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Metrics.aspx</link><guid>/business-it-blog/archive/2008/05/01/A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Metrics.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Software metrics are funny. When you want to manage by the numbers, you think counting the output of programmers can lead you to a worthwhile standard to gauge activity completion in a project. Of course, the baseline needs to be set. And then you'll need to have an estimate of that output.
 
No ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Doug Hoff</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 08:28:00 GMT</pubDate><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Project Management/default.aspx">Project Management</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Monitoring and Controlling/default.aspx">Monitoring and Controlling</category><category domain="http://blogs.centriq.com:8705/business-it-blog/archive/tags/Software metrics/default.aspx">Software metrics</category></item></channel></rss>