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Category Archives: Work
How to build an un-hackable password
Okay, another friend got hacked yesterday – here’s how to build an un-hackable password: 1. Pick a favorite date, like Bastille Day, your dog’s birthday, the moon landing or something. You could also do something like a favorite movie mixed … Continue reading
Leadership of IT/Software Teams in a Regulatory Environment
Part 3 – now let’s introduce regulation First part of this, is let’s define “regulation” in context. Specifically, I’m referring to ISO 13485, EU medical devices (GMP, or “Good Manufacturing Practice”), and FDA medical device standards. Let’s also be clear, … Continue reading
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Leadership of IT/Software Teams in a Regulatory Environment
Part 2 – How Does This Apply to IT? All right, so we’ve laid out what it means to be a leader – but how does this apply to IT? At this stage we have to look at what it … Continue reading
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Leadership of IT/Software Teams in a Regulatory Environment
Leadership of IT/Software Teams in a Regulatory Environment Thomas Theobald Part 1 – What Exactly Is “Leadership”? leadership /ˈliːdəʃɪp/ noun “the action of leading a group of people or an organization, or the ability to do this.” Not exactly helpful, … Continue reading
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Why do I choose Delphi?
Why? Really, why do I? In a world full of PHP, Java, Visual Studio, Python, Lua, and all these other syntaxes, what is it about Delphi that brings me back time and time again? First off, let’s be clear – … Continue reading
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Multipliers Don’t Create
Well, that’s a rather general topic, isn’t it? Okay, let’s get specific: in the last twenty years, computers and software, roughly labeled “technology,” have become absolutely ubiquitous and necessary in first-world business. And yet, human expectations of them have been … Continue reading
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KPIs for a QA Team
This post is somewhat less than lengthy, but I figure this will be of some use regardless. A while back I was doing KPI discussions for various groups, and got distracted. Here’s what I measure for QA personnel: Bugs that … Continue reading
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KPIs Part II – As Applied to a Technical Support department
This is Part 2 of a series – Part 1 can be found here So…part 2 of this series will take a look at the KPIs appropriate for a Technical Support department. In order to arrive at what elements of … Continue reading
Problems in Retail
I was asked recently (during an interview) what my view of the retail world was – as an open-ended question and not focused on the aspects of how to use technology to provide a solution, I stumbled over it. It … Continue reading
Key Performance Indicators in IT – part 1
I was asked recently by a company as part of their first-round hiring process a question very similar to this: How would you establish measurement of the departments under you in such a way that you would have an indication … Continue reading