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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...
November 18, 2016 at 11:53 am
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...
November 18, 2016 at 12:20 am
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...
November 17, 2016 at 2:32 pm
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...
November 16, 2016 at 12:00 pm
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 downstream...
November 14, 2016 at 11:06 am
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...
November 13, 2016 at 12:06 pm
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...
November 13, 2016 at 6:45 am
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...
November 12, 2016 at 4:12 am
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...
November 11, 2016 at 11:49 am
Programmable toilet? That gives a whole new connotation to stack dump
November 11, 2016 at 8:46 am
skeleton567 (11/10/2016)
David.Poole (11/10/2016)
Is the...
November 11, 2016 at 12:25 am
I would rather people took a course in change management.
Is the problem getting...
November 10, 2016 at 4:07 pm
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,...
November 8, 2016 at 12:12 pm
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...
November 8, 2016 at 9:51 am
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...
November 7, 2016 at 2:24 pm
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