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		<title>Taking ownership of tasks &#8211; when should you or when should you not?</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/08/25/taking-ownership-of-tasks-when-should-you-or-when-should-you-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its often expected by customers that the vendors take ownership and full accountability of the projects and related pitfalls. While on one hand its good to take ownership of the tasks in your project and deliver them on time, within budget and exceed expectations, its equally important to understand the remits and scope of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adopting Enterprise 2.0 for managing my project teams based across continents</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/06/04/adopting-enterprise-2-0-for-managing-my-project-teams-based-across-continents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing from my earlier post on using ‘twitter’ for better collaboration within IT project teams and taking it one step further, I have been contemplating on actually adopting an Enterprise 2.0 software stack for real time collaboration, better communication, effective knowledge management &#38; idea generation amongst my team. The obvious problem at my hands is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using &#8216;twitter&#8217; for better collaboration within IT project teams ..</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/06/03/using-twitter-for-better-collaboration-within-it-project-teams/</link>
		<comments>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/06/03/using-twitter-for-better-collaboration-within-it-project-teams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[App Support thoughts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, during one of my team review meetings, one of my colleagues raised an idea of having a chat server hosted on intranet to allow the team members collaborate with each other for issuing and requesting updates on various incidents, problems and their progresses. A good idea to have one chat server, but few team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer care &#8211; Dilbert way !</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/05/29/customer-care-dilbert-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 14:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Dilbert comic strip is really awesome and how apt it is for people who work in support &#38; maintenance projects to try this in their work !! Lol !! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Adopting technology for automating business usual work in support .. still reluctance?</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/03/18/adopting-technology-for-automating-business-usual-work-in-support-still-reluctance/</link>
		<comments>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/03/18/adopting-technology-for-automating-business-usual-work-in-support-still-reluctance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So frustrating … ? Isn’t it ? I do not know why in the world I see people doing the same and same jobs such as health check of system, carrying out scheduled maintenance &#38; housekeeping jobs and not thinking of automation.&#160; I find that kind of stuff really boring, frustrating and irritating if someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing the self inflicted incidents &#8211; why its important and how you avoid it?</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/03/16/managing-the-self-inflicted-incidents-why-its-important-and-how-you-avoid-it/</link>
		<comments>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/03/16/managing-the-self-inflicted-incidents-why-its-important-and-how-you-avoid-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote quite a few articles recently on Incident Management and you can find all of them here.&#160; In this article I am trying to put my thoughts on the incidents that are categorized as “Self inflicting” or “invited incidents” (henceforth SIIs) and how to protect / prevent them from occurring. Self inflicting incidents that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incident checklists &#8211; why one should have it &amp; how one should prepare it</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/03/11/incident-checklists-why-one-should-have-it-how-one-should-prepare-it/</link>
		<comments>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/03/11/incident-checklists-why-one-should-have-it-how-one-should-prepare-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote few weeks ago about how you can manage the incidents effectively. The post is available here for your reading. I mentioned there about the Detect Diagnose Resolve framework and how you can use it to effectively to manage the incidents. It is very important to quickly detect the incident cause when you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Application support &amp; Web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/02/19/application-support-web-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally the application support and related teams stay away from the jazzy world of technical innovations and are more into daily maintenance tasks and do more of a routine work. It feels weird to relate the work done by the core support team to the concept like Web 2.0 and related technologies, doesn’t it? As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective incident management &#8211; Detect &#8211; Diagnose &#8211; Resolve framework</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/02/16/effective-incident-management-overview/</link>
		<comments>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/02/16/effective-incident-management-overview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In most of the IT organizations, who specializes the support and maintenance contracts to the customer&#8217;s IT estate and their software estate, most of the emphasis is given to achieving 100% Availability and adhering to Service Level Agreements. However, one of the most important aspect of the Service Management that helps achieve above is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile ready support processes &#8211; Key AIS recommendations</title>
		<link>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/02/13/agile-ready-support-processes-key-ais-recommendations/</link>
		<comments>http://sollerthoughts.co.uk/2009/02/13/agile-ready-support-processes-key-ais-recommendations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swapnil</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Yesterday I posted an article about how someone should carry out the Acceptance into Service testing for the product that is being developed using the agile framework. I am continuing my thoughts on the same today and want to point out few key recommendations while following the process I put forward yesterday, Agile development [...]]]></description>
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