One place I worked took https://sfia-online.org/en as the base and pruned it back to suit the organisation.

As managers we spent a lot of time mapping the skills needed for a...

I like idea of parallelism and also the on_success, on_complete, on_fail options

Just as Microsoft looked at its competitors when it incorporated column store tech I think it should look at...

We call it sneaking quality into the deliverables

The goal is to get control of my financial assets so apart from direct access I would say Insurance details.

Home insurance reveals if your house is worth burgarling and how...

The first thing I think of is profiling and extended event type activity.  If everything is encrypted in flight, at rest etc then what is the mechanism for legitimate 3rd...

I'm not good with time management.  No matter what I am doing I feel I should be doing something else.  This means that I am easily distracted.  The feeling that...

We used to dread environment rebuilds.  Painful, likely to break and time consuming. It hurt.

We are not quite at the stage where it is "click of a button" but are...

In cycling terms there are two terms of disparagement

• All the gear and no idea
• £3K bike, 30 pence legs

In DevOps terms you can have the best software, the most...

To shift everything into the cloud you have to address all those bits of legacy pipework you have in your systems.  You have to understand all those strange data flows...

We have to conduct an annual GDPR audit.  We've found it far easier to make adjusting the GDPR documentation part of the software development lifecycle than trying to perform an...

The upsetting thing about this from a UK tax payer point of view is that this Excel non-solution has costs millions.   There's also an issue with the choice of vendor.

I'm...

First few weeks meetings were far less, now my calendar looks like a losing game of Tetris.

If doctors complain about paperwork you should see what UK teachers have to put...

Worth mentioning the -v switch for the docker run command to get a persistent volume.

-v $HOME/docker/volumes/postgres:/var/lib/postgresql/data

It will be slightly different for Windows, the code switch above is...

I live near in a small dormitory village (30 minutes cycling) the Peak District National Park in the UK.  If I drive then I've got good routes to some of...

That is something that is really bothering me.

There seems so be so much useful metadata stored and available in SQL Server, but i dont even know where to start...

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