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Turning off the out of office
Turning off the out of office the evening before turning to work and piling through the sizeable chunk of emails isn’t my idea of fun, but I chose to do it this evening. Why? Because for a couple of...
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The new parent method of project management
Almost three weeks ago, I became a father (see left Exhibit A, Laurelin Frances), and my life changed quite dramatically. As any new parent will tell you, having a baby turns even the simplest action...
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Job Applications, a managers perspective
I’ve just spent half of my day yesterday reviewing the applications for an IT job here at the Clinical School Computing Service. As I waded my way through applications both good and bad, it struck me...
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Choose your suppliers carefully
This morning the news broke that Irish food safety officials tested a sample beef burger from Tesco and found horse meat accounted for approximately 29% of the meat content. Pig was also found in...
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Why IT staff training should always be a high priority
Back in February, I read with surprise and disbelief that VMware’s “senior cloud infrastructure evangelist” Mike Laverick had written off employer supported training and continual professional...
View ArticleManaged systems – bringing order to chaos
A large part of the value of any good IT Service is it’s organisation; the extent to which it is predictable, consistent and effective. Over the past eight years working both in the public and private...
View ArticleDo organisational value statements have any integrity?
At a recent management course (the provider of which, Duraikan Training, I can highly recommend) we got to the bit about ‘Values’, and I visibly winced. In the last 20 years I have never seen...
View ArticleHow not to do project management
Back in 2012 I wrote a blog post about the ‘new parent‘ method of project management. Now, I cringe when I read that article, because I was missing some fundamental principles behind the project...
View ArticleTidy up as you go along
As I scrambled to get into work on time this morning, I noticed the flat was looking a bit of
View ArticleWhere did all the fishing posts go?
Last week I decided that merging my personal (mostly tech related blog) with my fishing blog back in 2011 hadn’t
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