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Skills: Technology vs Business by hannes

According to me one of the biggest pitfalls when getting stuck on a project is the fact that you loose out on widening your development skills by inadvertently trading it for business knowledge. As a free roaming consultant this is something that you should guard against because it’s more likely that for your next job interview, people will be more interested in your I.T. skills than your business knowledge. Let me explain. The initial project phase is inherently unstable. This is when architecture...
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Restructuring by hannes

Yesterday was a bleak Monday for our project. Due to organization restructuring it looks like we lost our project manager, two out of our four business analyst, the test manager and a tester. Next on the chopping block are the system analysts, developers and more testers. Working in IT you must realize that the financial rewards can be huge but so are the risks. Unfortunately this is easily forgotten when you get into a comfort zone. You like to tell yourself that you are good at what you do and...
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Investment Guarentees by hannes

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with someone about knowledge investment. Let me explain, I work for an I.T. body shop as a System Analyst. Currently I do work in the life insurance industry but I also have experience in retail and construction. My knowledge as an IT person got two sides. On the one side I have knowledge of the business / industry in which I work and on the other side I have technical knowledge and skills to perform my job. Gaining the business knowledge is more difficult...
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4 out of 5, IE7 and expensive toys with low ROI. by hannes

Well the past weekend was properly one of the best weekends SA rugby had in a long time in the S14. SA teams won 4 of there 5 matches, only the Bulls lost due to there own arrogance. What was exciting was the number of times that the backline players got to run with the ball. The last couple of years SA teams tended to play mostly with there forwards, neglecting the backs. During the weekend I installed IE7 and it really looks much better then IE6. There is much more richness in the pages that are...
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