By The Pizza Review
Last Saturday, I was out for a Pizza with some old friends of mine.
The waiter had a beautiful small computer that she used to take orders: very professional, very effective and efficient .. and probably cool for techies
PierG <<I’ll have a Pizza with Wurstel BUT with not much mozzarella>>
Waiter <<Not [...]

You probably know the well known T-Shirt from ThinkGeek: No, I will not fix your computer .
There is also the opposite syndrome, very well known too, that many IT geeks have both in their professional life and in their personal life.
Fitzgerald (the geek) will come in your house, look at your PC, and [...]

My boss has been under pressure in the last days …here is his explanations on why IT sucks:
IT sucks because IT people are:

sloppy
unskilled
swashbuckler
undisciplined

Do you think he is a bit exaggerated?
PierG
P.S. Please note that HE IS an IT guy

Let me suggest a very good blog about IT called Having IT Your Way that you can read in the Harvard Business Publishing site.
Here is what Susan Cramm writes on her first post:
I’ve decided to step out again - this time by sharing the secrets of how IT works and helping you, the business leader, [...]

Please, please … stop this abuse of security (often useless) gadgets!
PierG

by grahambones
Supplier: <<PierG, for this time, as you are in a hurry, we have sent you a couple of our best designer. They will analyze the stuff with your business experts, will design / code / test the app and deploy a great product in a really short time frame. Are you happy??>>
PierG: <<Sure. But [...]

There is no day in which I miss reading an article or receiving complains (from peers, directs, colleagues, clients) about how hard it is to run IT in a company, how low is the user’s satisfaction, how far are IT managers to strategic decisions of the company ….
Here is what I read today in Shena [...]

By Atmo
It takes time to write a good email: it must be SHORT and effective (among other characteristics).
Choosing the more appropriate words is one of the things to do.
When I write appropriate I don’t necessary mean the best from the semantic point of view of that particular word, but the one that has the chance [...]

I’m surrounded by IT people complaining on how IT is not well considered, is not important enough, is not taken into account when there are important decisions to make …
I don’t have the receipt but I know that one key is communication: look at a (almost) real life email from an IT dept to [...]

Small interface problem ….

PierG