For person-time (not disk space or bandwidth or other fun techie items) that standard in project management for the last 30 years has been "take the estimates you get and...

LMOTBC (laughing myself off the ball chair)

Good thing I work from home; I broke out in very loud laughter. I have yet to experience the blue screen of...

Gail Wanabee (4/28/2015)

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So many companies and CIO's I've worked for had a "good enough" is good enough attitude that permeated their I.T. culture. Nobody even cared about best practices...

Iwas Bornready (4/28/2015)

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Though there is truth in what you say, there is also truth in that "good enough" has to exist or the company you are working for goes out...

Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (4/7/2015)

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Koen Verbeeck (4/7/2015)

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Rune Bivrin (4/7/2015)

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I was very torn between "3" and "Not supported". Based on the following in the cited documentation, I kind of felt both were...

David.Poole (3/31/2015)

I feel that what is needed is a schema version aware rule where there is an option to validate the existing data against an updated rule or to accept...

They end up on the "DBA TEAM". Or chasing them. 😀

There are so many scenarios people work under that what works for one may be untenable for another. My company / team recently had conversations about not using...

Another reason working with others can help, beyond just the "peer pressure", is because it makes it more fun! (For some of us, anyway.) It's nice to...

First, I want to thank Steve for these lovely little tidbits about interacting with others. It's a much bigger part of the job than many realize. This one...

What I find interesting in this conversation thread is that no one things the "manager" is part of the team. Where I work, they are considered part of the...

Now I'm wondering if there's any actual data out in the world that would allow us to look for a correlation... Can't say I've seen one.

I've never worked anywhere...

I agree the issue of citizen programmers is not going away - there are needs that are not being met, so they will pursue solutions that allow them to do...

Even with COLUMN instead of COLUMNS, this was a good question - just look at the spread of percentages on each of the five answers.

Hoping to see more...

As with so many things in our profession, "it depends"!

1. Is there documentation showing them how to do <the thing> and did they read is is always my first...