The insights of a Quirky Tech Enthousiast on his journey through the fast paced IT landscape.
Check out the following presentation at Parleys: Project anti-patterns. How to make your project fail
This presentation shifts the concept around abit . You’re generally used to getting presentations on how you should do certain things. The principal technology officer of Cap Gemini tries a different approach to identify the issues of failed projects.
Learn these 10 tricks and you’ll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe…well, maybe not the universe, but you will need these tips to play in the big leagues. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems.
Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
How to be a more productive Linux systems administrator
The following slideshare is about the “Inbox Zero” concept. If you like the concept behind this time-management technique, then you might also want to check out the full video that was used as basis for this presentation.
You might remember the Tuckman stages for group development. If you’ve checked up on this, you might have wondered how to manage this.
The growth phases model of Greiner suggests that organizations go through 6 stages of growth and need appropriate strategies and structures to cope. It is a descriptive framework that can be used to understand why certain management styles, organizational structures and coordination mechanisms work and don’t work at certain phases in the development of an organization. The 1972 model of Greiner describes five (six) phases of organizational development and growth.
While growth is fun when things are going well, when things go wrong, this chaos can be intensely stressful. More than this, these problems can be damaging (or even fatal) to the organization. The “Greiner Curve” is a useful way of thinking about the crises that organizations experience as they grow. By understanding it, you can quickly understand the root cause of many of the problems you’re likely to experience in a fast growing business. More than this, you can anticipate problems before they occur, so that you can meet them with pre-prepared solutions.
Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Professor Dan Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. Not only do we make astonishingly simple mistakes every day, but we make the same types of mistakes. We consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. We fail to understand the profound effects of our emotions on what we want, and we overvalue what we already own. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They’re systematic and predictable—making us predictably irrational.
Donald Kirkpatrick is known for creating the training evaluation model. This model consists of four levels of learning evaluation. Kirkpatrick’s ideas were first published in 1959, in a series of articles in the US Training and Development Journal. The four levels of Donald Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model essentially measure:
Level 1 : Reaction
Reaction evaluation is how the delegates felt about the training or learning experience. For example the ‘happy sheets’, ‘feedback forms’, etc
Level 2 : Learning
Learning evaluation is the measurement of the increase in knowledge before and after. Typically assessments or tests before and after the training are used for this level.
Level 3 : Behaviour
Behaviour evaluation is the extent of applied learning back on the job / implementation. Observation and interview over time are required to assess change, relevance of change, and sustainability of change.
Level 4 : Results
Results evaluation is the effect on the business or environment by the trainee. Measures are already in place via normal management systems and reporting. The challenge is to relate to the trainee.
For more info, check out the BusinessBalls‘s article on Kirkpatrick…
A while ago I talked about Bitnami, that enabled you to jumpstart several OpenSource stacks. Now I just noticed “JumpBox“…
JumpBox Open is a collection of easy to use virtual appliances for Open Source software. Each JumpBox is focused on a single task (or single application) and is carefully crafted to capture the best practices for how the software should be implemented. The goal is to save you time and allow you to get more done with less effort. JumpBoxes will run on all of the popular virtualization platforms including VMWare, Parallels, Microsoft Virtual PC/Server, Virtual Iron and Xen.
JumpBox might help you to deploy certain services faster, just like LAMP jumpstarts your basic webservice environment!
We all know the classic project cartoon outlining the difference between what the customer wanted and what was delivered… Know you can create your own @ projectcartoon.com!
Karim Vaes 