The Checklist Approach To Business Process Modeling

"The Checklist Approach To Business Process Modeling" is the latest entry on my Visible IT blog.

Visible IT

Howdy,

A few of you have asked about my work blog. Yes it's true. I've taken one tiny step toward my ultimate career goal of being an industry analyst. (I.e. getting paid to read alot about what's going on in my field and then pontificate write about it. ) A few months ago I was asked to start a blog on IT governance for IBM, which I've called Visible IT. It's featured in the Service Management community in IBM because we often see IT Governance as an extension of IT Service Management. Officially, I'm only supposed to spend abotu 1 hour a week on it, but it's a start.

The blog page has both RSS and ATOM feeds for those of you who want to subscribe to the bog. In general, I don't think I'll post to LJ every time I have a new entry on Visible IT.

Not Laughing At Napoleon

The amazing thing about watching Napoleon Dynamite, a movie which purports to be a comedy, is that it didn't get a single good laugh out of me the whole time. A chuckle here and there, yes. Maybe an amused smile, once in a while. But honestly I didn't really laugh once during the entire 82 minutes. And this, I think, is the entire brilliance that is Napoleon Dynamite. Despite his uber-geekiness, despite the complete lack of social graces, despite being crippled with an equally geeky family of apparent losers, despite being the butt of every high school indignity, I never once felt like it was OK to laugh at what was happening to Napoleon Dynamite. I never once felt like it was OK to laugh at _him_. As Napoleon admits during the movie's big turning point, he always trusts and follows his heart. And that's ultimately why he's such a sympathetic character and that's what insulates him from ridicule.