Robert Ford

Articles by Robert Ford

System Support

We are 800 years away from being a real industry with meaningful letters after our namesWe are...

So much for training

A lot of people worldwide are receiving new PCs for the year 2000; it's a pity they ...

Project management for weasels, by weasels

Project managers are lying, self-interested flatulent weasels.At least that's the way I felt after a recent project steering committee meeting. ...

Get a grip on database rudiments

The other day I received an e-mail from a buddy of mine who has started a new contract ...

System Support

They came, they installed, they fled. The result was two weeks of downtime for the department.Lessons learned...

Project juggling (and trying to stay sane)

No one trusts me with staff because I am a maniac - a professional, focused, ethical maniac...

Project planning is painful. Rely on intuition

Project planning is clearly meant for people with an ability to ignore pain. An IT project plan...

Watch out for those cow paths

The cow path is still out there, begging to be paved, and in fact some IT practitioners ...

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