Today's Date: 20 June 2013

January 2008

31
Jan

Perceptions of quality

Quite some ago Intergen's Development Steering Group (DSG, a small group of senior developers/architects) went on a 'retreat' to discuss issues affecting the development team as a whole and plan some strategy. Among the items up for discussion was the issue of quality - how to achieve it, and, in order to decide that, what on earth quality actually is. ... read full post

Posted by:  Jo Chapman,   |  31 January 2008
Tags: Quality
23
Jan

Virtualisation - a hot topic in IT

We see it gaining momentum in the hosting and server environments and also as a useful mechanism for shipping enterprise demos and beta software. The value of having multiple server platforms running on a single machine has many advantages, most specifically hardware utilisation and management and the associated cost savings, and, more recently, the pressure of being green. ... read full post

Posted by:  Tim Mole,   |  23 January 2008
Tags: Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtualisation
14
Jan

A leaf out of the book of Jack Welch, ex CEO of General Electric

I’ve been reading the auto-biography of Jack Welch, ex-Chairman and CEO of GE (find it here at Fishpond ) over the break and it’s a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of life at the top in one of the biggest corporations in the world. ... read full post

Posted by:  Shaun Donaghey,   |  14 January 2008
Tags: Leadership
10
Jan

Working to live or living to work? Achieving the work-life balance we all dream about.

It’s the start of a new year, the holidays are over, and people are returning to the office en masse. January is often a time to set goals for the year ahead, identifying those personal and work-related resolutions we want to achieve over the next 12 months. ... read full post

Posted by:  Tim Howell,  Marketing Manager |  10 January 2008
Tags: Project Management, ActionThis, SaaS