We had our first IT Moving Day meeting on January 17th, 2007. The move was on March 17, 2007. We met every week on Tuesday at 9:30 am for one hour. All IT staff was involved. We discussed every aspect of the move. Server issues, CAD licensing issues, prepping plotters, scanners, printers, desktop issues. All […]
Tonight I get to go home at regular time. We are moving about 150 people into a new building from our old digs. We have been planning this move for quite a while and things went very much according to plan (whew). The move was staged so that we could move our servers, desktops, infrastructure […]
I mentioned that Ethereal CAD is an environment that is all talk and no action. This means that it would have a woefully under developed CAD Standard, if it had one at all. The CAD Standard would leave out critical items like file naming, folder structure, layer names, etc. By doing this it ends up […]
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Despot CAD is when the Standards are in place but no one knows why they are what they are. A Despot is: A ruler with absolute power. A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant. This kind of environment usually appears to be run by a person who is viewed as “running a tight ship”. […]
Ethereal CAD is an environment that is all talk and no action. It is a place where everyone wants to have standards but no one wants to follow them. It is a system that is too theoretical because everyone has a good idea and none of them match. Files are created, named and stored all […]
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Chaotic CAD is where everyone does what they darn well please. No one talks to each other. No one cares about developing Standards. In fact they may actually think that standards get in the way of productivity or creativity. In Chaotic CAD everyone is left to make the best of each file or each project. […]
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You have all heard management say “A warm body is better than no body”. This is usually in conjunction with keeping an under producer on the team long after everyone has recognized that they should be gone. Is this really true? Are they really better than no one? Here are a few problems with “Warm […]
Ever wonder how you are doing on your job? You could think in terms of how you fit the job description or how you are coming in on time and not leaving early. You could also think about what challenges you have overcome, what standards you have produced or how many seats of CAD you […]
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Continuing on with comments on “Extreme Jobs – the Dangerous Allure of the 70 hour Workweek“, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce found from their research that people with extreme jobs may not always experience burn out, but rather what they call “Brown Outs”. From the perspective of Van Halen – it means no […]
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