All Entries in the "Development" Category

Workaholics Are Not Role Models

A CEO of a reputed organization once said he has been working more than 90 to 100 hours a week for many years, and jokingly adds he should have done more. And in another reputed car manufacturing company dozens of employees and managers get cash rewards and appreciation certificates for not taking a single day [...]

Using Twitter As A Business Communication Tool

Twitter is the ‘micro-blogging’ service that has grown to 3m users wordwide in less than 3 years because it provides the simplest social communication platform around. It’s used by kids, pensioners, young adults, well - everyone. It’s being used by business as well. Here’s how.
The beauty of Twitter is that it is simple. You can [...]

How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?

Business Analysts are the fulcrum that turn an idea, problem or opportunity identified in the business into something that IT can engage with and deliver. So BAs generally deal with work whose inputs are less easily defined and therefore measured. So how do BAs measure their value?
Take a look at BAs who are working in [...]

Who Are The Super Geeks?

The last quarter century has seen the rise of the Super Geek. This recent CIO.com article features 11 Super Geeks that have transformed society by disruptive technologies. This collection of individuals, if together, might be confused with the cantina in Star Wars, but their combined wealth is a hundred squillion dollars (roughly). Who are they?

Alan Kay - [...]

Were Businesses Ready for Web2.0?

My Grandmother might not know it, but Web2.0 has created a social revolution. It has changed the way people interact, network, learn and organize forever more. But were businesses ready for it?
I recently contributed to the ‘Silicon.com CIO Jury ‘ who asked whether organizations were ready for the Facebook generation , and it seems that [...]

Five Self-Marketing Tips for Information Technology Employees

I used to be like you - a shy, modest, hard working IT engineer who’d little time for what I supposed to be those self-serving sycophants scrambling up promotion vines in the corporate jungle
You know the ones. They’re on first name terms with most middle and some senior managers (including [...]

Punch Above Your Weight! Drop Some Business Steriods - Get Your CIO Career Plan

CIOs don’t become c-level through luck - so why put your career to chance?
Silicon.com have just run this story to highlight the important of having a career plan. CIOs don’t let their career become a game of wait-and-see, but they actively plan for it. But many people don’t do this, but instead meander their way [...]

Projects Are About People, Not Technology (According To Elizabeth Harrin)

In a recent post on her blog, Elizabeth Harrin shares with us some research from Forrester which (in her words) reminds us that projects are about people, not technology.
Elizabeth Harrin is a blogger (a girl’s guide to project management) who won the ComputerWeekly 2008 IT Blog Awards in the Project Management category. Her post [...]

Seven Ways to Look Busier and Keep the Axe from Falling On Your Head

Many of us are nervous about the future - are there job cuts around the corner? Well here are seven ways to appear busier! Don’t be at the top of the list of people in for the chop.

Roll your sleeves up. And I mean this literally. Sleeves rolled up sends a message that ‘I am busy working’. [...]

How To Successfully Articulate the Meaning of Technology

One of the most difficult tasks as a Technical Professional is helping non-technical people to understand technical subjects. Do you struggle to get your point across sometimes? Probably, Yes. Is in an art form? Yes I think it is. So is there an approach which can help us? Yes, and I will share it with [...]