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I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry

By ⋅ April 6, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

(attrib) I was in a meeting yesterday – first time with this particular group of folks, all at same time, on this topic, although I had already established a working relationship with all. Anyway, subject matter was one that most of them had talked about at length over the past few weeks, but I was [...]

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International Meetings – Pick a Convenient Time

By ⋅ April 1, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

This tool is a great utility for lining up a teleconference or web cast across multiple time zones. I do lots of work with the French and other euro countries, and I always go back here to pick the best time to call them up.

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Succinct Definition of IT Generalist

By ⋅ March 30, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

This article in Infoworld provides a nice, succinct definition of roles and responsibilities, and typical actions and impact, of what Yager calls an IT Generalist. Personally, I think all in IT need to develop this approach – define the real issue and drive to the best solution, regardless of the technology. The idea of mile [...]

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Motivating Maintenance Programmers

By ⋅ January 7, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting conversation today with one of my application managers. As we move into the new year, we’re doing some “spring cleaning” of the older projects in our PMO. Two from last summer had languished – efforts to develop simple web front ends for order inquiry and dealer information – and I asked my lead web [...]

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80 Hour Work Weeks are Hard – Unless You’re Having Fun

By ⋅ October 1, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Saw a pair of postings this evening that talk about the change in the workplace, having to kill ourselves to compete with India et al. I agree with both points … Tom Peters holds that having to compete against motivated, “hungry” (for advancement) folks will force us all to work long and hard – his [...]

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