Monitoring Project Progress
Too often failing projects surprise us. Have you ever had a project that seemed to be going along just fine, and then, when the delivery deadline drew near, suddenly, everyone's two months late?
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Date: 2003-04-29
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Software Development: Steps To Better Ensure Success
There is never a guarantee of project success when endeavoring to build a sophisticated application solution. However, there are established steps to follow that will ensure a clear, concise scope, support for the team involved, and a solid opportunity for successful deployment.
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Date: 2003-04-08
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Industry Trends: Plug and Play
Technological advances over the years have driven the manufacturers of information technology products and systems to add "plug & play" features into their systems as much as possible. The industry direction has been to lower the level of technical knowledge/skills required for system installations and configurations. However, the by-product of this has been to add a tremendous amount of overhead into all aspects of networking.
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Building Your Resume
Q: What is your resume?
A: It is your first opportunity to sell yourself.
Q: What does your resume do for you?
A: It gets your foot in the door.
It is what makes the difference between getting an interview and not getting one. I would like to give you at least a few tips to help you create a more effective resume. Recommended Reading:
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Dealing With the Technophobic
Almost all of us in the industry deal with those that require support for tasks that we feel that they should be able to take care of on their own, whether it be an end user, a customer, or someone working in your department. How many times have you had to help someone create a shortcut on their desktop, change their default home page or print a document? Do you have a co-worker in your IS department that isn't at the technical level that they should be? How often do you have a customer request support for the same problem every few months/weeks/days?
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Developing a Knowledge Management Business Case: a Test Case
Here's the premise; I am the IT manager for Pete's Monkey Business, an organization that delves into the world of exotic trading. The life cycle of our current database system has come to its end, and management has decided to replace it with a completely different system, and intend to install and develop it by outsourcing. After the development phase, the consultants will then hold classes (in house) to train the staff on how to use the new system.
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Do Applications Truly Erode?
It is essential to remember that for any IT project, an environment or infrastructure needs to be created to implement the technology. People must be brought together into project teams that consist of users, developers, support people, training, process communications, marketing, sales and many others. These teams must create whatever is necessary (processes, training materials, rollout strategies) to successfully introduce the technology into production.
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Playing Both Sides of the Fence - How to Hire or Get Hired
It has been said that today's IT/IS job turnover rate is somewhere in the neighborhood of the fast food industry's. While this comparison may be an exaggeration, the figure is around 15-20% per year for many firms. This means either you searching for a new job, or having to hire someone to replace an employee who has recently left your company.
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Back-up and Restore Windows 2000
Backing up your data can be one of the most important things that you do in your IT and/or home life. You never seem to miss something until it is gone. If you want to spend more time making money and not redoing things that you have already done then make sure you back it up.
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Understanding RAID
What does it all mean?
RAID 0, Duplexing, Mirroring, Striping with parity, ECC, the terminology bog goes on for what seems to be forever. Do you need to know what all of these mean? If you're considering a RAID array for your network, the first step is understanding the different terms before you even think about making a purchase.
So, off we go...
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Date: 2003-04-04
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Bluetooth's Future? It's Chips Ahoy!
Bluetooth may be slow to hit the shelves, but behind the scenes, the technology is moving ahead rapidly. That's the word from Frost & Sullivan, which in a report released this week painted a rosy picture for the future of the short-range wireless technology.
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Date: 2003-04-03
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