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ProjecTalk: The Next Big Shift In the Collaboration Paradigm
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Friday, March 12, 2010. The Next Big Shift In the Collaboration Paradigm. Imagine being able to send out a single message to a large group of people to solicit a yes or no answer, or to pick one option out of list of several options – and have that single message track all the responses for you in one quick view. Imagine being able to hold a debate – and allowing everyone invited to the debate to weigh in with their opinions – within the container of a single message. Not any of those means of collaborat...
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ProjecTalk: August 2008
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Sunday, August 24, 2008. Getting Your People Up To Speed. The most neglected aspect of any IT shop is documentation. If a new person comes on board in your IT department, how long does it take for that person to get up to speed before they can be assigned their first task? I am not just talking about programming and coding, but any aspect? Even worse is the existing co-worker, who knows System A like the back of their hand, but now has been asked to do some work on System B. Good documentation practices ...
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ProjecTalk: July 2008
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Saturday, July 26, 2008. I think there are few industries – if any – that change their minds as fast as the IT industry. I like to use the analogy of a pendulum to discuss this topic. Because at a high level, the decisions go back and forth, swinging right to left. And the one certain fact of a pendulum that you can count on is it will only swing so far to the right, stop, and swing back again to the left. In this analogy, you can count on the fact that what is old will soon be new again. But the data th...
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ProjecTalk: Head Stuffing
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Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Fred Brill is currently a Systems Engineer for a major health benefits company in Canada. Over the course of his twenty years in the IT industry, Fred has held the positions of customer service, software developer, product manager, development team manager, project manager, technical engineer, and systems architect. View my complete profile.
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Head Stuffing: September 2013
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Saturday, September 14, 2013. I think Mother Nature must be going through menopause. Hot flashes one day, cold flashes the next; and the gusty winds and thunderstorms. But this morning the air is still and the sky is blue. And the sun light is bright with a slight tint of orangey yellow. The dew that dropped out of the sky has coated everything on the ground with a thick coat of wet. I guess it's time to consider that summer is over and fall is starting. But not yet, at least not today. There's a humming...
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Head Stuffing: July 2015
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. This summer has been really busy. Here in Windsor, I think a new rainfall record was set for the month of June. But it never really impacted the fast-pitch softball schedule of practices and tournaments of the travel team my daughter’s play for. So we stayed really busy. So our home has suffered for it. I still need to open the pool. I know, we are in the second half of July now. I know. But it just keeps raining. But not today. This is my first weekend to attack these chores. ...
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Head Stuffing: May 2015
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Pitching to Towering Redheads. This story is true, I swear it's true, especially the parts I made up. My daughters' fast pitch team played a tournament in middle Michigan last weekend. In the first game of the tournament, they faced their toughest challenge in a team wearing red jerseys. These girls were at the older end of the age bracket with fourteen and fifteen year old girls. Our team was a year or two younger. Alannah threw her best pitches at her, but the third pitch caught ...
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Head Stuffing: May 2014
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Saturday, May 31, 2014. Time Enough For Me. Again another summer is rolling into our little burg on the cusp both Canada and the United States – nestled into a quiet corner along the bordering Detroit River. The breeze is warmer each morning as I sit on the back deck by the pool listening to the water flow around the pools edge, the ever so gentle hum of the pump that moves it. And of course, my faithful black lab Suzy, yet another year older, laying on the deck at my feet. There's just so much going on.
