Is HR actually a science? Or is it more like Project Management, where no public (federal, provincial, municipal) project ever comes in on time or budget. I took a random job requirement listing sample and looked at the specific requirements. Job Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management Systems, and Business Management, Statistics…
“Problems flow from issues such as inadequate training for users and computer coding that isn’t a suitable match for the “discretion” required to manage complex Ontario Works, and Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) files” As in the product did not fit the need. The problem is that the real customer is not the Ontario government,…
Statement on line 4: ‘select’. Great for debugging. Code has about 400 lines. Some error statements are still as misleading or useless as WBT. Error was actually in line 187 where I forgot a ‘,’ Looking in all the wrong places when debugging. Nothing has changed Need a beer to make your brain slow down?…
A recurring advice for job seekers is to show how they helped in improve a company’s profitability. That may work in sales, but is a bit more difficult in IT. IT – like construction – usually works against moving targets. Specs change. The effect of spec changes is sometime indirectly proportional to what project manager’s…
Analyst says this should take about an afternoon to code Analyst says the users signed the specs. He forgot to ask them if they also read the specs Manager told me that this is how users get their work done. Apparently the users did not know that I have like 59 versions of this program,…