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- A thieving coworker presents a sticky situation for an IT consultant
- There are no easy answers for consultants who uncover coworkers that are stealing computer equipment from clients. Here is a good example of just such a dilemma faced by one TechRepublic member, along with the problem's satisfactory resolution. by Paul Baldwin
- Tags: Consultant, Information Technology, Coworker, Client, Computer, Productivity, Paul Baldwin
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Establish maintenance practices for your documentation
- Any aspiring astronaut, or any kid who dreamed of spacetravel, has seen the photo of Neil Armstrong's footprint on the moon. It's saidthat it will take micrometeorites millions of years before it fades into thelunar dust.Your documentation, on the other hand, is about as permanentas a footprint on a beach....
- Tags: Paul Baldwin
- Technical articles 2006-03-01
- Let standards guide your documentation
- Regardless of your opinion toward The Wall Street Journal or TheNew York Times, each newspaper has its own indelible style. Beyondcolumnists, editorial slants, and front page layouts, the way design,formatting, and writing of each newspaper carries a strong identity, regardlessof your political leanings. Even if the mastheads and bylines were...
- Tags: Paul Baldwin
- Technical articles 2005-12-02
- Reasons to consider creating a documentation department
- The argument whether yourbusiness should consider documenting your processes, policies and procedureshas long been decided--if not by common sense then in the effort to comply withexecutive edicts or legislative directives like Sarbanes-Oxley. And, liketrying to un-ring a bell, once the effort to document policies and proceduresbegins in earnest and once...
- Tags: Paul Baldwin
- Technical articles 2005-09-26
- Learn more about dedicated hosting with TechRepublic's audio Web cast
- Just as a successful manager knows when to delegate tasks to employees, a thriving organization will understand when it no longer makes sense to handle its Web hosting in house. For many businesses, the decision to choose a Web host comes when the start-up begins to realize its success.To help...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Web hosting, Web Cast, Web
- Technical articles 2004-04-23
- Don't let your SCM software be the weak link in your supply chain
- Not that you'd take any commitment to a supply chain management solution lightly, but isn’t it important to make the best choice anyway? Choosing an application to handle your SCM system is one of the most crucial decisions your company can make.Regardless of the complexity of the software you choose...
- Tags: SCM, Paul Baldwin, software, supply chain, tool
- Technical articles 2004-04-21
- Check out IT Consultant's top five articles for November
- Did you miss a few articles on IT Consultant Republic in November? We've collected the top five, as indicated by our readers.Each TechRepublic community produces up to 50 articles each month. With five communities on our site, that’s an ambitious reading list, even for the most enthusiastic IT pro.For those...
- Tags: NETWORKING, PRODUCTIVITY, Paul Baldwin, network, information technology
- Technical articles 2002-12-16
- Find the right antispam vendor for your organization with our Vendor Selection Checklist: Spam Filtering Software
- Editor's note: TechRepublic’s free-with-membership articles, including these two from this content package—"Decision Support: The goal of enterprise antispam programs" and "Protect the Network: Use our at-a-glance chart to evaluate spam product choices"—can provide a good introduction to your organization’s efforts to deal with spam. For help selecting an antispam application...
- Tags: criterion, Paul Baldwin, software, spam filtering, tool, Vendor Selection Checklist
- Technical articles 2004-03-08
- Use our Gap Analysis for spam-filtering software to choose the right antispam solution
- Editor's note: TechRepublic’s free-with-membership articles, including these two from this content package—"Decision Support: The goal of enterprise antispam programs" and "Protect the Network: Use our at-a-glance chart to evaluate spam product choices"—can provide a good introduction to your organization’s efforts to deal with spam. For help selecting antispam applications for...
- Tags: anti-spam, Gap Report, Paul Baldwin, Requirements tab, software, spam filtering
- Technical articles 2004-03-08
- One member's security assessment is an eye-opener for his client
- When he was hired to perform an assessment for a client following an electronic break-in, an IT consultant found all kinds of security problems. Here's a rundown of the tools he used, what he finally found, and his prescription for a security fix.When John Verry, a security consultant and a...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Paul Baldwin, security audit, John Verry, security
- Technical articles 2002-12-06
- Help your team understand their project roles and responsibilities
- As a consultant, are you sure that everyone on your project team clearly understands their role? This roles and responsibilities template, sent to us from a TechRepublic member, can help.Imagine a baseball team on which no one knows what position they’re supposed to play or what needs to be done...
- Tags: Team management, Paul Baldwin, team, team member
- Technical articles 2002-11-27
- What's wrong with this spreadsheet?
- Recently, we posted a downloadable spreadsheet designed to help consultants track the quality of applications throughout the development project. A few members have suggested that it needs to be improved. Help us beef up this download.A few weeks ago, we posted a programming quality spreadsheet download on IT Consultant Republic...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Paul Baldwin, spreadsheet, Republic
- Technical articles 2002-11-22
- Learn about EDI best practices with these articles
- Consultants who work with supply chains will almost always have to address EDI-related issues. These three articles examine best practices that you can apply to your engagements.If you’re a consultant who works with supply chain issues, it’s likely that you often have your hands in EDI-related projects. Even with the...
- Tags: best practice, Paul Baldwin, EDI
- Technical articles 2002-11-12
- Ensure quality on your development projects with this downloadable spreadsheet
- Keeping a keen eye on an application development process can be more difficult if your client doesn't have tracking software. This spreadsheet, designed to identify problems in the development project life cycle, can help.Plenty of applications allow you to track programming projects throughout a software development project life cycle to...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Development tools, Paul Baldwin, spreadsheet, tool
- Technical articles 2002-11-06
- Get a handle on Web services with these TechRepublic articles
- What potential does Web services hold for your organization? Here are five TechRepublic articles that discuss various aspects of Web services and their possible effect.For all its apparent promise, hype, and actual technological application, the concept of Web services still remains nebulous for many. For example, what kinds of business...
- Tags: Web services, Channel management, Paul Baldwin, Web service, Web
- Technical articles 2002-11-05
- Ethics: Web host neglected its duties, so consultant told host's clients
- When a Web hosting service was endangering the data of its clients, a consultant took it upon himself to let the host's clients know, even though he could have jeopardized his relationships with other clients. What would you have done?When a consultant whose company runs an online backup service learned...
- Tags: Backups, ethics, Paul Baldwin, Web, CarelessWebHost, MyClient, backup
- Technical articles 2002-10-28
- Track every server, firewall, patch, and cable with this IT asset download
- Consultants, especially those who perform IT assessments or who handle network admin duties for their clients, need an easy way to keep track of equipment. This spreadsheet can make that task simple.Consultants who perform IT assessments or who are hired for network admin duties for their clients will often find...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, NETWORKING, cable, firewall, Paul Baldwin, spreadsheet, server, Fazekas, information technology, network, IT asset
- Technical articles 2002-10-15
- Decision Support: Business Impact Analysis is the starting point for disaster recovery
- If you are preparing or updating a Disaster Recovery Plan DRP for your company or your department, your first tasks will be: identifying which critical business functions need to be restored first; what equipment and data will be needed to restore them; and the management and people needed to resume...
- Tags: Business Impact Analysis, Paul Baldwin, decision support, disaster recovery
- Technical articles 2004-01-20
- IT Consultant's top five articles for August
- With everything you have to do as an IT professional, it's easy to miss an important article here and there on TechRepublic. To catch up, check out the top five IT Consultant Republic articles for August.This is usually when most of us try to take a few well-earned vacation days...
- Tags: Strategy, ROI/TCO, Paul Baldwin, information technology
- Technical articles 2002-09-26
- Dealing with 'Billy' and other marginal project team performers
- Managing a marginal performer is like driving around with your parking brake engaged--you'll probably reach your destination, but not without some friction and possible damage. Heed this advice on managing such staffers.If you have a team member who isn’t performing at the level you would like, blame it on the...
- Tags: Team management, Paul Baldwin, team, performer, team member, marginal performer
- Technical articles 2002-09-10
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