This article describes a technique that Microsoft architects around the world use every day to ensure that IT projects have both a clear alignment with the strategic goals of the organization and a strong demonstrable impact.

If you are looking for templates of PMBOK with instructions, a full set of them can be found here.

Maktoob, an Arabic social network and web 2.0 group founded in 2000 has been acquired by Yahoo!.

Using jQuery to filder and sort data in a table.

According to reports from SpeedTest.net, Iran is in 186’s place for internet speed with average of 0.48Mbps speed. Quality of internet services has been decreased heavily for the past years…

Ruth Morton and the fact of changes of a CIO role in a company by the factors of Data, Internet Portals, Security and Mobility.

Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo! are joining together against Google’s Book Search for creating the biggest online library.

If you want to automate Windows Firewall with C#, you may use this guide.

14 reasons why Enterprise 2.0 projects fail.

Roy has got all the NDC 2009 video files in a Torrent file which can be downloaded here.

Perfect guide on advanced CSS selectors on Smashing.

10 Firefox add-ons you can’t live without.

I just came across Microsoft’s Showcase website and thought you people might be interested in.

I always present a video from Microsoft or other leading tech providers in my presentations as a proof on what we are talking about.

Community Clip is a FREE tool which you can make videos for helping others in Office.

Mike Bosch considering PMO as an air traffic controller and Agile teams leaning towards taking road trips rather than long flights.

Anyone have experience with MXScan?

It is a .NET 2.0 application as AntiSpam & AntiVirus for your mail server which support multiple open source solutions such as DC, SpamAssassin and ClamAV.

I honestly can’t believe the stats given out on Iran’s software industry export table within this report.

We should be honest to ourselves on the fact that software developed in Iran are far from the quality world would accept.

Roy’s book on TDD, Art of Unit Testing, is quoted by Robert Martin.

• Failure 1: Installing technology without a business strategy.
• Failure 2: Paying insufficient attention to user needs and benefits.
• Failure 3: Using ambiguous (or non-existent) measures of project completion and success.

Reasons are declared here.

According to an official in Iran, 40% of Iranian software companies are bankrupt!

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All you need to capture a Video, create your Windows Movie Video, convert it to DVD format and burn it on a DVD.

MyStream is an open source, ASP.NET 4.0, C# web application which shows your life stream in social networks on your own hosted domain.

I was looking for a open source .NET Agile development tool and came up with the followings. Please let me know if any knows other ones. I need one in .NET and Open Source so we can manage having it adapted here in Iran with Persian Calendar and Persian Language.

• Tackle
• Agile Planner
• Scrum Dashboard
• ScrumLite

IceScrum is an J2EE application for using Scrum while keeping the spirit of a collaborative workspace. It also offers boards with post-its for sprints backlog, product backlog and others.

If your hosted OS has Aero enabled, like Vista or Windows Server 2008, and you are running Windows 7 in Virtual Machine, you can have Aero Glass enabled using this.

You can find out how to enable the Vista Theme in Windows Server 2008 in my previous posts.

I am considering to re-create our Gantt Chart section of our Support Portal with Silverlight as Nuno Filipe Godinho has declared some controls for use in Workflow Management.

As stated before, RIA future of Web is to Silverlight.

Office 2010 got a feature for translating documents between different languages but I don’t see my language, (Farsi/Persian), in the screenshots.

Since Google and Facebook are running for Persian since a month ago, I hope Microsoft would add the support for our language in Office 2010 as well.

I’ve been using Google for ages, really ages, since I have been using the ‘net seriously. I mean back in 1998-1999 (can’t remember the days clearly though).

For around 10-15 days, I am running my search queries through Bing and getting better results, the results might be less, but are much more related to the topic I am looking for.

What’s your feedback on Microsoft’s new search engine which should go bigger in the MicroHoo deal?

Guide on how to boot to VHD in Windows 7, and how to convert your currently ISO Image to a real VHD Image file as if you have bought an OEM version which can be used in any situation for testing different utilities.

Don’t forget that Windows 7 & Windows Server 2008 are VHD compatible and you can simply boot into a VHD file.

Which one is fastest? PHP or ASP.NET, Linux or Windows?

If you are tired of the look and feel of your desktop running Windows Server 2008 and like to have the Vista look & feel there, you have to try this guide.

If Skype goes down, around 480 million users would be affected.

Oliver Marks from ZDNet and Vishal Sikka from SAP talking about the road to more agile business performance.