Curriculotta

The battery in my backpack sprayer doesn’t seem to hold a charge any longer. Trying to spray for weeds with a battery operated device with a non-functioning battery is a problem! Ordering the replacement exposed one IT organization’s weak customer focus. (more…)

“We have no choice. We have to do a hot cut Friday night. It’ll be tough, but we’ll have the weekend to clean up. We’ll be fine on Monday.” (more…)

This is not some cleverly named cloud computing article. This was a real requirement.

(I will leave the details around how this company got in the situation of needing a data center in 30 days…. (more…)

The new phone and voice mail systems were just being deployed. Everyone was thrilled…there were even posters up “Free Yourself from Telephone Tyranny” with a tie in to the July 4^th implementation.

Everything was going smoothly until someone asked why the message waiting lights on the general purpose phones were not coming on. (more…)

A number of years ago, my 11 year-old son came to me and asked me to sign his homework. Being an engaged parent, I decided to actually look at his work. To my surprise, he had been asked by his teacher to complete a project plan for his upcoming math project.

I looked at his paper and realized it asked for the following:

• A list of materials (”resources”)
• Steps to complete the project (”tasks”)
• A draft drawing (”milestone”)
• Due date (”deliverable”)
• His name (”project manager”)
• Parent signature (”signoff”)

I immediately asked when he found the time to go to Microsoft Project training (more…)