2) Strategies
What Does the IT Department Really Do?
Jun 16th
The latest post from Turning Technology Invisible – What Does the IT Department Really Do? is available here. To my fellow BlogIdol bloggers… see you tonight!
Eating your own dog food. Living the user experience
Jun 14th
The latest post from Turning Technology Invisible – Eating your own dog food. Living the user experience is available here. To my fellow BlogIdol bloggers… see you Thursday night!
How to harvest the best ideas from your team.
May 30th
Shane Schick has shared the judging has begun, but encouraged the troops to keep posting. This is a repost of a recent TurningTechInvisible post (my other blog life) One of the challenges of working with a team of bright, creative people full of ideas, is that they are bright, creative, and full of ideas. [...]
“I am endeavoring, ma’am, to construct a mnemonic circuit using stone knives and bearskins.”
May 23rd
It’s late in the day and the contest is almost over. Still, I hope to put up one more post and I have been trying to catch up on the other posts that precede mine. I just finished Kevin’s “If You Were a Superhero”. I liked it a lot and really enjoyed the reference to [...]
Einstein on Software Essence
May 23rd
Well of course since Einstein died in 1955, he existed prior to the wave of computer technology that swept across the planet since then. So then, what might he have said? I bought a book at my favorite used book store in Perth (Bookworm). They seem to have a continuous collection of good science texts [...]
Book review. Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
May 23rd
I am sure each one of you tried to change something in your life at least once (lose weight, change the way you do paperwork so you submit your taxes on time and do not get fined, make your developers comment the code they write… you name it). The goal may be clear and theoretically [...]
A Knight’s Tale… the end of 2011 Blog Idol Canada
May 22nd
Once upon a time there was a handsome CIO ( you may disagree, but it’s MY fairy tale). He had spent a number of years learning his craft, with much help along the way from wiser leaders. In spite of this good counsel, our hero gained a number of calluses and scars from battling the [...]
How long till Cloud Computing and Tablets are in the Trough of Disillusionment?
May 19th
You may not be familiar with the diagram above. Welcome to Gartner’s 2o1o version of their Hype Cycle. For a number of years, Gartner has tracked 1,800 emerging technologies and plotted them along a curve representing the stage of maturity, as well as an estimate as to the number of years it may take [...]
On Werewolves and Software
May 18th
In April 1987, Frederick P. Brooks of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published a paper in Computer – entitled “No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering”. The “Silver Bullet” referred of course to the legendary silver bullet that was the only way to kill a werewolf. Werewolves appeared [...]
Programs that help you fund your IT projects
May 17th
If you are looking for funding to develop an IT product or hire people, here are some useful federal and/or provincial programs that may help you. SR&ED is one of the most important ones, but there are others as well, and they can make all the difference in the development of your business. Ontario [...]
What could possibly go wrong (with Cloud Computing)?
May 15th
We all know one… The eternal optimist who’s absolutely determined that everthing is fine, that you worry too much, that you should just unknot your knickers and get on with life. He constantly reminds you that things have a way of working out in the end, and that 80% of what we worry about never [...]
Want to buy a Playbook or a Chromebook? Can you really trust reviews?
May 13th
I drink my coffee black. I didn’t always take it this way. When I started, I was like many who would enjoy a Timmee’s DD (This is a Canadian colloquialism, it has nothing to do with cup size), but then I dropped the sugar. Then the cream. When I first decided to drop the cream, [...]
Avatars – The new “Professional” you.
Apr 26th
Of all the things I am, I am NOT a gamer. In fact, if you want to build your self esteem, invite me over for a night of CoD (Call of Duty, not the fish). While you are massacring the enemy hoards, I will still be trying to figure out which button does what while [...]
Review: RIM Playbook
Apr 23rd
After getting a Playbook early last week (thanks to the community support here) , I wondered what it would have been like to compete on blogidol this year if writing entries on a tablet. In addition to responding to topics posted by other competitors, responding to others’ posts, and trying to keep up with the level [...]
Don’t forget to smell the roses
Apr 21st
Since Kevin is posting pictures of his dog Isabel; I might as well add one of our cat Ebony before I sign off for the long weekend. I was thinking along similar lines to Kevin’s post on powering down to get some sleep. I believe that there are times when we need to turn off the technology [...]
