...themselves. It’s why we need engineers. So maybe you should add an interview question for managerial candidates: “If you open the refrigerator door, how much will it cool off your...…
...figuring out how to lead and manage IT’s workforce given today’s staffing challenges; and (3) helping the business executive leadership team focus on how IT can and should be used...…
...which all scientific analysis suggested was genuine, but which many authorities on ancient art felt, immediately upon seeing it, was a forgery. The author’s admiration for the authorities and disdain...…
...from the only example. Once you’ve established a system of metrics you get what you measure and only what you measure. Anything you don’t measure you don’t get. MF #4:...…
...understand them? Check. Except for the “set” part. Have a conversation about expectations. Listen to your employees and their perspectives about what’s reasonable as much as you explain yours. Yes,...…
I can’t help it. Gartner has discovered the need for “Bimodal IT.” What I can’t help: Pointing out that once again, Gartner has discovered something KJR’s subscribers (back then it...…
...is just … vapor. In the 1960s visionaries in the academic and defense community created it. It’s been an international reality for decades. In the 1980s the Graphic Communications Association...…
...in de-delegation as a fraction of all delegated decisions, de-delegation meaning “I’m delegating this decision to you unless you don’t make the decision I would have made or don’t make...…
...If you’re to blame, your boss asked who was at fault, decided it was you, and made chopped liver out of you for it. Another bit o’ semantics: Many people...…
...from OO-land — abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism — would almost certainly be on your list. SOA’s run-time binding? Probably. Recursion? Maybe, if you’re a sophisticate. Performance? Sure. If you’re...…