What Happens When You Don’t Pay Your Employees: The Employee-Employer...
The relationship between an employer and his or her employees isn’t special. It’s also very simple; It’s based on money. The employee works for the employer typically for 1-2 weeks at a time. Following...
View ArticleEstimating time for tasks with PERT
We often find it beneficial to estimate how long a given task will take. This comes in handy when trying to quote billable time, set deadlines, or map out a project timeline on a Gantt chart. In...
View ArticleCost Behavior Analysis Calculator
One of the projects I’ve been working on lately is my Cost Behavior Analysis Calculator. Cost behavior analysis is the process of dividing a mixed cost into its variable and fixed components. Doing...
View ArticleGoing into Business? Learn a Programming Language
When doing homework for my business-related classes, I often find that knowing a programming language is very advantageous. Certainly there are times when it makes sense to use a calculator, but...
View ArticleUpdate to Cost Behavior Analyzer
I just updated my Cost Behavior Analyzer webapp to allow for the editing of results. This way, if you want to add new data points at a later point in time, it’s no problem. Try it out!
View ArticleCommon Single Point of Failure: People
Yesterday, when I arrived at my other job on my school’s help desk, I found out that my supervisor was not coming into work at all. This is OK; I enjoy the autonomy of working unsupervised. However, at...
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Stop Letting Technical People Get Away With Social Ineptitude
As a technical person who has worked many customer-facing support roles, I’m offended by the often-cited notion that technical people have poor people skills or are poor at filling customer support...
View ArticleHypersensitivity and Political Correctness
I wrote a blog post this week on how engineers or “technical people” don’t have to, and shouldn’t, be jerks. My argument was that the stereotype that technically-minded people are bad at social skills...
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Concurrent Engineering: The Foundation of DevOps
DevOps is all about trying to avoid that epic failure and working smarter and more efficiently at the same time. It is a framework of ideas and principles designed to foster cooperation, learning and...
View ArticleWe Have the Tools but What About the Techniques?
In my previously-written article “Concurrent Engineering: The Foundation of DevOps” I wrote “just because you use puppet does not necessarily mean your organization is practicing DevOps.” I didn’t...
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