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John Rutter: Chartered IT Professional
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Technology, Systems Architecture, Software Development. Friday, 28 March 2008. As a professional member of the BCS (British Computer Society) for some years, I decided late last year to apply for Chartered IT Professional status, as I feel that represents my attitudes and role in the IT industry. However, if I had applied earlier in the year, I would have been able to read my name in a BCS feature in the Telegraph last February. http:/ www.bcs.org/server.php? My colleague, Fiona Burgess. Joel on Software...
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John Rutter: Dubious Acronyms - An I.T. Profanisaurus
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Technology, Systems Architecture, Software Development. Tuesday, 1 July 2008. Dubious Acronyms - An I.T. Profanisaurus. Obviously should have better things on my mind, but whilst in a hotel room recently I started to ponder the creation and propogation of the various acronyms that we are all familiar - or not so familiar - with in IT. You know the sort of thing that gets bandied around in design documents and discussions:. GIGO for Garbage In, Garbage Out. KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid. OK, none of those...
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John Rutter: Flickr Groups and Your Teams
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Technology, Systems Architecture, Software Development. Sunday, 15 March 2009. Flickr Groups and Your Teams. As I have rekindled my interest in photography over the past year (since getting a Digital SLR), I've been sharing some of my photos via the Flickr web site ( http:/ www.flickr.com. So if the internal business sites do not get used in the same way, maybe that points to the company culture not being conducive to open comment and shared efforts to reach goals? Better still, take the other, easier, d...
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John Rutter: Retaining Staff
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Technology, Systems Architecture, Software Development. Friday, 4 July 2008. Reading a book by Gordon Ramsay recently, he puts a lot of his success down to the fact that he had a really good team of staff around him in the early days, and has continued with many of those same people as his business(es) have grown over the years. One particular quote I like is:. I have to agree with this comments and principles, even though it is dressed up in the usual blunt Ramsay style of language. Hopefully you aren't...
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John Rutter: Book Meme
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Technology, Systems Architecture, Software Development. Saturday, 29 November 2008. She had been married to man who never bored her and these people bored her very much". From 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro', in 'The First Forty-Nine Stories', by Ernest Hemingway. Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
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