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- Two ways to improve the reputation of your tech support department
- What is the reputation of the IT department in your shop? Is it perceived as a well-oiled machine, with all the parts—from tech support to software development to network operations—working smoothly and seamlessly together as a unit? Or does the rest of the company think of the IT department as...
- Tags: developer, disagreement, IT Department, Jeff Davis
- Technical articles 2003-02-25
- Help clients make efficient use of their meeting time by serving as a facilitator
- If your clients get little accomplished during meetings because of unproductive arguments and miscommunication, they need a facilitator. Are you up to the task? Read what it takes to prepare for a facilitation and how to make the best use of meeting time.I think it can be said that most...
- Tags: Team management, Rick Freedman, disagreement, facilitator, team, facilitation
- Technical articles 2000-12-12
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- Professinal disagreement
- I am having a disagreement with a peer on a WindowsXP/Active Directory question. When installing we are actually Ghosting a new PC, at the point where the name for the PC is entered, he says that information about the PC has been entered in AD and if the PC is...
- Tags: butchkn, advertisement, network, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Aligning technology solutions with business needs
- More than consultant's responsibilityExcellent article. I'm going to share it with my peers. My only disagreement is that this alignment is the responsibility of the consultant. It is also the responsibility of the client to ensure that their nee
- Tags: karen mac
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- Define project expectations with this criteria acceptance form
- Establishing acceptance criteria at the beginning of a project helps ensure that the results are well received. This sample form will make those criteria clear from the project outset. Detailing acceptance criteria on the front end of a project will go a long way toward clarifying customer...
- Tags: Criteria, Project Management, Performance Management, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Download resources 2005-11-17
- Nanotechnology: The Coming Revolution in Manufacturing
- For centuries manufacturing methods have gotten more precise, less expensive, and more flexible. In the next few decades, we will approach the limits of these trends. The limit of precision is the ability to get every atom where we want it. The limit of low cost is set by the...
- Tags: Limit, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Hardware
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- 10 ways to handle disagreements effectively
- Be reasonable. Do it my way. I laugh when I see a bumper sticker with this message. True, if everyone did do things my way, there would never be disagreements. But that wish doesn't reflect reality. In fact, you're in rare company if you've never had a...
- Tags: Position, Person, B, Productivity, Development Tools, Telecommunications, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Calvin Sun
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- Business requirements vs Functional specs vs detail design specs
- We recently came under a new IT Director who is changing repsonsibilties in IT. There seems to be some confusion and disagreement with who's responsibility is business requiremnt, functional specs and detail design specs.Our IT dept org chart is IT Director, Project Leader, Business Analyst, Programmer/Analyst.It looks like we (programmer/analyst)...
- Tags: Leadership, DebMuzz, Project Leader
- Discussion threads 2007-10-06
- Controversy threatens work on future 100G Ethernet standard
- In my Hardware Roundup just a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that 10Gbps is coming up fast over the horizon. Well, just when you thought you could catch a breath is news of the work in progress on the 100Gbps Ethernet standard. However, according to...
- Tags: Controversy, IEEE, Network World, Quality, Benefits, Business Operations, Human Resources, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-15
- Monday Trades and Tribulations
- Monday and I have a longstanding disagreement going back some twenty-five years now. Monday wants me to focus, get things done, and pay attention. Personally, I want to continue on with my Sunday routine of pondering my navel, doing chores, and maybe playing around. As a kid this match mostly...
- Tags: team, time management
- Blog posts 2006-05-15
- Exchange Server Port 119 opened?
- I'm having a gamely disagreement with a friend. He states that MS Exchange 2000 requires NNTP port 119 to be opened so that Public Folders can be used. I however, am the admin of a 2000 Exchange server that uses Public Folders, yet 119 is not open.Can anyone...
- Tags: e-mail, Exchange, Mick11, Microsoft Exchange Server, network, Network News Transport Protocol, server
- Discussion threads 2005-06-02
- Easy-to-use, cost-effective network and system monitoring software
- Java requirementI agree with most of the information provided in this article. Monitoring systems must be easy to use, web-based, integrate multi-vendor solutions and provide a high-lvel view of the network health with the ability to drill down into specific data. My one disagreement is that this type...
- Tags: davec@..., infrastructure management, it management, Java, network, software, system monitoring
- Discussion threads 2005-07-25
- Use expert opinion and Delphi techniques to estimate unfamiliar work
- When you're asked to create an estimate for work that's unfamiliar to you, you have two choices--ask for an expert opinion or use the Delphi Technique. One of the first rules of estimating is that you shouldn't estimate work that you don't understand. Estimating work that you don't...
- Tags: Borland Delphi, Tom Mochal, Programming languages, Development tools, technique, Delphi technique, Project Management Newsletter, Estimate, Productivity, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Technical articles 2006-09-26
- When to step in if employees are fighting
- One of the toughest calls I’ve had to make as a manager is when to intervene in conflicts between employees. My instinctive first reaction is to just let the involved parties work it out, maybe with a bit of nudging, and I still believe that’s usually the best approach to...
- Tags: Ken Hardin
- Technical articles 2003-04-07
- What the UAC 'hole' is really about
- Fellow blogger Ryan Naraine had a blog "Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw" where he reported on a disagreement between elite researcher Joanna Rutkowska (Singapore-based Coseinc) and elite programmer Mark Russinovich formerly Sysinternals and acquired by Microsoft. Ive spoken with both of these people and...
- Tags: Desktop, Joanna Rutkowska, Microsoft Windows Vista, Security, UAC, Vista, Vista UAC
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Net neutrality extremists should stop playing engineers
- Our own VoIP blogger Russell Shaw has decided to rebut my position on Net neutrality. Here is my response to Russell.Russell Shaw says:George then adds that if everyone is contending for the same bandwidth on an Internet backbone at the same moment in time, then the priority-service packets should...
- Tags: Infrastructure, Net Neutrality, Networking, QoS, Technology policy
- Blog posts 2006-06-10
- Manage office politics using issues management techniques
- It's not uncommon for a project team to be impacted by office politics since you have different people trying to exert influence to get things done. Here's how to get to the source and deal with the repercussions. Everyone hates office politics, right? Probably most of the readers...
- Tags: Tom Mochal, Team management, office politic, political problem, Project Management Newsletter, Situation, Technique, Politics, Management
- Technical articles 2005-07-26
- In IT consulting, the customer isn't always right
- It's a retail adage that the customer is always right, but consultants know that customers requiring IT services may not always be right. It takes good listening skills and a lot of diplomacy to convince a customer that you have a better solution to his problems. Let's look at what...
- Tags: Robert L. Bogue
- Technical articles 2003-08-22
- The Mumbling Manager
- blog rootMonday Trades and TribulationsMonday and I have a longstanding disagreement going back some twenty-five years now. Monday wants me to focus, get things done, and pay attention. Personally, I want to continue on with my Sunday routine of pondering my navel, doing chores, and maybe playing around. As a...
- Tags: Team management, Shannon Kalvar, team, time management
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- Mystery machine
- Mystery machineI built an Athlon computer for my housekeeper around Christmas. The onboard video card stopped working, so I bought a PCI video card. Now the PC won't even boot up, it freezes at the Windows 2000 screen. I can boot it in safe mode, but that's...
- Tags: BIOS, board, boot help, card, Napa gnome, networking, pc troubles, video
- Discussion threads 2005-08-19
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