Seems to me, more often than not, education works well with the uninformed. When that fails, I go up the chain to someone the detractor cannot say “no” to: You are likely in agreement with your manager and so allow them to address the issue. Often they are more familiar with the best approach with
Just when you thought you had everything worked out, here comes Mr/Ms big idea. Often, it is someone who is either not computer savvy, as in doesn’t use one much, or holds a PhD IT scientist certificate in their mind. Changing your planned work, after all of your meetings, collaborations, accommodations, and compromises for multiple
Many times we come across cost challenges in our projects. Often, funds are removed in the middle of planning and sometimes execution. At other times a natural disaster, union strike, or other unplanned event can exhaust our monetary resources. When this happens to you, there are some ways you can mitigate before determining you need
It’s been several weeks. You have discussed and researched and made decisions for a certain area of your project. Your counterparts seem to have the information they need and everything is going smoothly. You dial in for a typical weekly meeting and instead of the familiar host, you find out they have gone and have
Oh my, if ever there was a complicated subject, it is Windows Licensing! Actually, when you can wrap your head around the details, it doesn’t begin to make sense. But until then, oh my! We know Microsoft is moving everything to a subscription model. No more disks, and patches and updates. Instead if they can
Security has come a long way from in the last 20 years. In IT, we didn’t really have to think about insecure software libraries, vendor vulnerabilities, or zero day. But we do now. You must ask the question regarding application security, did the developer borrow code and was it vetted You must explore with networking
Quality Assurance, we don’t even say the words anymore but it exists to ensure we release stable code onto stable devices resulting in the ultimate goals of the hardware and software working together without defects, issues, and customer facing problems. At least that is the case with Windows 10 and printers or scanners or any
IT is going to change your life for the better! Any change in routine from one work day to another can be considered an enemy of my productivity so I feel for my users when my project will make a change, however small or great, in their everyday work life. With security increasingly an issue,
In my experience, companies tend to either let their employees have all access all the time to their computer or lock it down so you need a help desk ticket to change the colors. Increasingly, because of cyber threats of hackers taking over PC’s, more and more firms are locking down their systems. This not
Recently hired for another Windows 10 project, the Windows marketplace remains true to its last minute upgrade reputation. Maybe it’s just humans, too many other tasks that are put in front, issues that are more critical than an End of Life for your operation systems, who knows. In the end, an urgent status is created