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  • RE: Share the Interesting Work

    There is a definite skill in assigning appropriate work and keeping staff interested.

    There's also a skill in working out their strengths and weaknesses, how best to capitalise on the strengths...

  • RE: A Joke Come True

    I would not describe myself as an Apple fanboy. What they are is industrial design rather than technical innovation. Unfortunately people tend to praise the things they can...

  • RE: A Joke Come True

    I was always reluctant to go with Macs. Not for any technical reason, more for the price and the sort of people I saw using them.

    Then I was...

  • RE: Held Hostage by the Database

    I find that automation and testability have to be designed in from day one. It's a bitch to try and implement it later.

    If you want flexibility then...

  • RE: Go Code

    Gary Varga (11/14/2016)


    David.Poole (11/10/2016)


    ...

    Then there is the rule of 2s for assembling a team to address the problem

    • Two people upstream of the process you are going to change
    • Two people downstream...

  • RE: Go Code

    I'm not sure that I agree Jeff. Purveyors of inflatable dart boards seem to abound in IT. Those guys never seem to have trouble convincing CEOs and CTOs...

  • RE: Go Code

    A rather damning enditement of 40 years of educational meddling in the UK.

    I was fortunate to enjoy school for school's sake but it was only decades later that I understood...

  • RE: Go Code

    Some years ago I went through an HR initiative where we graded ourselves on our skills with the aim of various employees being able to tap into the expertise of...

  • RE: Go Code

    From what I can see every profession has it's craftsmen but also its journey men.

    There are those who can just get by in a profession, those who can execute competently...

  • RE: Go Code

    Programmable toilet? That gives a whole new connotation to stack dump

  • RE: Go Code

    skeleton567 (11/10/2016)


    David.Poole (11/10/2016)


    I would rather people took a course in change management.

    • What is the problem I am trying to solve?
    • How big is the problem?
    • What impact does the problem have?
    • Is the...

    • RE: Go Code

      I would rather people took a course in change management.

      • What is the problem I am trying to solve?
      • How big is the problem?
      • What impact does the problem have?
      • Is the problem getting...

      • RE: How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?

        With all external sources of information you have to treat them with some scepticism.

        The phrase "completeness of vision" can mean many things. It might mean "we have a mature,...

      • RE: How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?

        Rod at work (11/8/2016)


        This is a bit of a tangent, but I had to respond to the mention of Gartner. Before I came to my current job all I knew...

      • RE: How Do You Act When You Need to Learn New Technology?

        The problem with the new "shiny bobbles" is that no-one really knows how to use them except the people who wrote them and those people aren't necessarily the ones who...

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