Tech Kettle

Thanks God, I finally got my PRINCE2 practitioner certification. If you have a good grasp of the major aspects surrounding project management, your journey for the certification exam will be less tricky. First off, I have two advises : - You really don't need to pay lot of money for the training. - Don't count on a single resource (that applies to any certification). If your are already searching for the best training, you realize that there are huge amount of online training videos. However, in my opinion, there are two online training that are worth the investment : Mplaza or Projex's Prince2 Masterclass. I liked the Mplaza PRINCE2 foundation training and the instructor has a smart approach to deliver the information, however the Practitioner training was not up to par with what I was expecting, the discussion approach wasn't the right option for me. The Projex's PRINCE2 Masterclass was the option I picked up. It prepares you fo...

Whether you are looking for a document management system or a development framework for your next business application, you might be considering some options from opensource solutions (well.. most of the time), however picking up the right choice that fits to your requirements doesn't necessarily make it a safe choice. Imagine a company is using a system (could be an ERP, CRM, DMS, ESB...) for a couple of years and that system relies on a framework or third party modules, that one day the provider announced that in the near future his framework will stop receiving maintenance updates, or that the next version will be released under different opensource license, that has more restrictions [ Opensource licenses in a competitive environment ]. What would be the stakeholder decision ?