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Tech worker mid-year 'resolutions'
The turn from winter into spring and summer presents a great time to put some thought into how you're developing as a leader. Patrick Gray offers some tips on where to start.
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Yahoo CEO resume flap: IT pros react
IT pros react harshly to Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's false claims of a computer science degree, adding fuel to investor Daniel Loeb's pressure for a Yahoo board CEO ouster.
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Four more things your IT department should consider not doing
Most organizations might not be ready to shift these activities, but here are four more items you might want to consider doing.
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Facebook goes from 54 patents to a whole war chest
As Facebook builds its war chest of patents from IBM and Microsoft, the three have been mum about exactly what patents Facebook has been buying in the last month. Here’s exactly what it got from IBM –...
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Combatting the IT versus management mentality
Patrick suggests some things that IT can do to combat the us versus them mentality.
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PMI's Agile Certified Practitioner: A cert is born
The Project Management Institute's new Agile Certified Practitioner certification might be right for you if your organization uses scrum, Lean, Kanban, and XP.
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How IT can alienate the very people they serve
Patrick Gray talks about an instance when a company's "geeks gone wild" alienated him from the product they offered.
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Six things your IT department should stop doing today
Scott Lowe identifies six activities that he thinks should be handled by others or through different means.
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Earth Day 2012: What IT pros should think about (infographic)
Take a moment to look at this infographic to see what reductions in carbon emissions a few changes can make.
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MS Windows 8: When simplify means multiply
Microsoft has always confused IT pros with its variously priced Windows SKUs, updates, downgrades, delays, naming conventions and partnership flip flops, but this is ridiculous.
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Job enrichment vs. job enlargement
Why is it that we often see great talent melt down when given more responsibility? In this blog our coach John M McKee explains a common mistake made by managers and organizations each day.
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The SMB technology renaissance
Technologies that were once the domain of Fortune 500 behemoths have become available to smaller companies. Here are the two pillars of this renaissance and how your SMB can best use them.
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Six tactics of natural leaders
In this week's Leadership Blog, our coach John M McKee shares six tactics you can use to move up the ladder more quickly.
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The IT dashboard: Five metrics that spell success
Although you may never be able to get a "perfect" metric, there are some pieces of information that are valuable to the CIO and the executive team that should be considered must-haves for any dashboar...
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Commodore pioneer Jack Tramiel dies: Wozniak, industry and tech pros react
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, remembers tech pioneer and Commodore founder Jack Tramiel in an interview with Gina Smith. Tech pros who cut their teeth on early systems like the Commodore 64 and ...
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Five ways to discover unstructured processes
Many companies tend to ignore unstructured processes and instead focus their IT efforts on the larger, structured processes like CRM and ERP. Here's why taking this attitude can be expensive.
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Michael Jackson's mistakes similar to many in leadership roles
While much has been written about Michael Jackson's quirks and issues, not much has shown the similarities of his actions and those of many corporate and political leaders. Executive coach John M McK...
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Out with Treos, in with iPhones
While in Louisville, Kentucky for TechRepublic's 10th birthday, Scott Lowe mentioned to Jason Hiner that Westminster College was moving away from Windows Mobile-based Treos in favor of iPhones. He twe...
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Agile teams: Focus on the people rather than the process
Rick Freedman believes the agile PM's most important roles are to create a collaborative environment that enables teams to achieve creative results and to encourage contributors to focus on group goal...
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Enterprise 2.0: The Kumbaya irony
Michael Krigsman says he strongly believes in the future promise of Enterprise 2.0 systems, methods, and supporting tools. However, it's time for reasoned arguments and case studies of adoption in rea...
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Agile requirements discovery: Tell me a story
Having trouble gathering agile requirements from a nontechnical client? Rick Freedman says you might consider asking for user stories. These stories, which are short and written in plain English, outl...
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A technology manager's manifesto
Scott Lowe says many of today's businesses are incapable of keeping up and it's not all IT's fault. Here is his five-point manifesto.
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3 tips to improve your team's performance
Leaders can forget that an organization's strength is usually its people. Executive and leadership coach John M McKee shares three tips and tactics that nearly any leader can use to become more effect...
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How to negotiate what you want out of life
Almost every activity in life is a form of negotiation. In this blog John provides seven tips for leveraging business negotiation as a life skill.
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IT's chicken or egg problem
Should IT have to prove its worth to executive leadership or it is incumbent upon executives to drive IT toward corporate strategy?
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Four interviewing techniques that never work
Managers should use the interview to gauge people for the right mix of skills and personality. Here are four interviewing techniques that don't help you do this.
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Lesson learned from Apple banning
Apple kicks out an iOS developer for showcasing a bypass of the code signing mechanism. Is this helping or hurting their cause?
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SharePoint workflow, yes or no?
SharePoint 2010 ratchets functionality up a notch across the board. But if Workflow's your thing, you need to do a sanity check before pulling the trigger. Here's a template for that sanity check.
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ITIL role conflicts and synergies
Smaller organizations tend to have their ITIL resources handling multiple roles. Here's why that could be a bad idea.
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Technical solutions looking for a problem
IT is famous for offering solutions that are too complicated or require too much care and feeding for the problem at hand.