The Undercover IT Correspondent

When not looking at the lighter side of IT, Michael Gentle is a consultant and author. Visit him at www.michaelgentle.com (see “The Associates” section below)

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Geographically-challenged webmasters

Why do websites have to have the whole of the UN in the country drop list?

 

Dead IT Poets Society

Emily Dickinson and Rudyard Kipling were already writing about IT in the 19th century!

 

User group conferences

The ultimate diversionary tactic to get clients to forget their real problems!

 

Enterprise software

Reps and consultants are thoroughly schooled in a special language called vendor-speak

 

IT in the movies

If we don’t have enough women in IT, blame it on Hollywood!

 

Shrink-wrapped software

Office productivity? Gimme a break…

 

IT executive photo ops – size matters!

When it comes to technology, some executives are clearly better endowed than others.

 

Good guy and bad guy technologies

IT technology change is usually driven by organizational politics

 

Titles and departments we could do without

Bring back the good old days, when the longest job title was ‘Director of Operations’

 

Behind the scenes in IT after a merger

Just watch the Delta and Northwest IT staff slug it out behind the scenes!

 

The SDLC (Systems Development Laughter Cycle)

IT’s a serious business folks – so don’t laugh…

 

Wi-fi on airplanes? Enough, already!

The techno-marketers have got it all wrong! Airborne wi-fi ain’t gonna fly!

 

Sci-fi lessons for IT and users

IT cannot harm the business, or through inaction let the business come to harm 

 

Mind your language

Remember when an apple was a fruit and a server worked in a restaurant?

 

Users – the origin of species

Natural selection seems to apply to users too – only the fittest survive outsourcing!  

 

Research analyst-speak

Even gardeners and foresters can make a living writing legalese!

 

Play the name game

IT projects live or die by their monikers. Nix the boring acronyms. How about Sapphire or Prometheus?

 

Acronyms, numbers and letters

The IT profession was characterized by alphabet soup right from the word GO!

 

Written by mgentle

June 5, 2008 at 6:33 pm

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