The first year of my doctorate program is done! Actually…I finished my last course about a month ago but with the Fall 2008 semester starting next week, I figured I should claim the First Year is complete. During the first year I took five courses: INFS 614 – Introduction to Research INFS 720 – Systems [...]
Lady Finds Camera
August 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Lady finds camera Lady posts info and pictures from camera on flickr People recognize pictures People tell People The owner of the camera is found Camera is returned Story here and original saga is here. There are some good people in this world after all. Related articles by Zemanta “I found a camera…”
Website Optimization
August 27, 2008 By 30 Comments
In July, I was approached by Andy King to see if I’d be interested in reviewing his new book from O’Reilly titled “Website Optimization: Speed, Search Engine & Conversion Rate Secrets“. If you don’t know who Andy is, go read his resume….I’ll wait….OK…you back? Great pedigree right? Been involved in the web since 1993. Founded [...]
CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 Honorees List
August 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The 21st annual CIO 100 list has just been delivered. The article leading up to the list of the CIO 100 is quite interesting..I’m reading things like “think like the business”, “doing more with less”, “insourcing“, “transforming the business”, “agility”, “back to basics” and “simplicity”. Rather than a bunch of buzzwords (OK…except for ‘transforming’), the [...]
The Fifth Discipline
August 22, 2008 By 2 Comments
OK…I probably don’t have to review the The Fifth Discipline. It’s a classic…everyone has read it. Bas de Baar had an excellent review of this book recently…mine won’t begin to approach his in length or quality but I wanted to share a few thoughts. I read the original edition quite a while ago (in college [...]
The worst reason for not hiring someone?
August 20, 2008 By 9 Comments
I think I found it….and it happened to me. Warning…small rant. Imagine you are a hiring manager trying to find someone to lead a group of IT professionals. What are the things that you would look for in a candidate? For me, it would be someone that has the following profile: Strong leadership skills Intelligence [...]
After the UTD Project Management Symposium
August 19, 2008 By 3 Comments
As mentioned here and here, I presented a paper titled “Project Management and the Stockholm Syndrome” at the 2nd Annual University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Project Management Symposium yesterday (Monday August 18). The presentation was well attended and it looked like people were actually interested…at least they didn’t leave If I had the [...]
UTD Project Management Symposium
August 18, 2008 By 4 Comments
Just a reminder…the 2nd Annual University of Texas Project Management Symposium is today and tomorrow (August 18 & 19). Yours truly will be presenting at 4:40 today….the topic will be “Project Management and the Stockholm Syndrome”. I hope to be able to link to my paper and presentation after the symposium. Related articles by Zemanta [...]
Webinar: Charles Green on How to Build Trust
August 16, 2008 By 4 Comments
Charles Green is giving a live webinar on How to Build Trust in Sales Conversations on Thursday August 21. The webinar looks like a good one…as is most of Charles’ stuff. A quick summary of the topic: Understanding how to create trust in a sales conversation is a great source of freedom; trust doesn’t take [...]
Linus Torvalds on Managing Software Projects
August 11, 2008 By 3 Comments
CIO.com has an interview with Linus Torvalds that I’d just had to share…very interesting commentary from Linus on managing software projects. In the article, Linus provides five ‘tips’ for managing projects…they are: Find people you can trust. Be trustworthy yourself. Be honest—sometimes painfully honest. You also have to let the others get their say in. [...]
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