Bridging the Gaps: Using Connections, Technologies, Strategies, & Human InterestsTechieDolphin will journey through her past perspectives from the engineering, project management, and enterprise architecture world in a range of industries including aerospace, education, and financial institutions. Her emphasis will be on collaboration and enterprise architecture technologies and processes along with insights for working in a geographically diverse setting.In Architecture Like Life - Less can be More- June 30, 2006 There are various views to architecture approaches driven by a company's strategy. Some prefer the bottom-up approach to architecture development which has the benefits of a more agile and customer-centric (decentralized) design. Some would consider this chaotic. Think of it almost as a design by committee. The more popular view is the top-down architecture strategy which involves a centralized structure involving standard product suites and a small group of experts determining technology dehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bridging-gaps/in... Email Horror Stories - is it the technology or is it us- June 27, 2006 In the past year, I've heard of two completely unrelated companies that have each experienced major user related email nightmares. I am sure these are just the tip of the iceberg. Company 1: A high level Human Resources executive sent out a spreadsheet of the entire company's employee information including salary information to the entire company's distribution list. Note: this was not intentional and the executive immediately attempted an email recall but the damage was already donehttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bridging-gaps/em... Developing into a Systems Architect for Your Next Career Move- June 25, 2006 I received an excellent question from the entry What is a Systems Architect about what classes and training can help to develop an experienced IT person into a "Systems Architect." First, to be considered for a Systems Architect position, it typically requires several (usually 8-1http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bridging-gaps/de... What is a Systems Architect- June 19, 2006 I almost cringe sometimes when strangers outside of the IT industry ask me "What do you do" Typically one of two reactions occur - eyes glazing over with an "oh" or "what type of buildings do you design" I've come up with some interesting different answers to the question ranging from "helping to design computer systemsnetworks" to "working with internet research" (which is much more glamoroussexy and easy to say but not really the whole truth). I'd be interested in any good ways you've fhttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bridging-gaps/wh... WorkLife Balance - it's more like living the law of averages in spin mode!- June 12, 2006 One of the great myths about worklife balance is that it resembles a type of seesaw balance act where one strives to achieve a balance between two main priorities - work and personal life. The reality is that many of us struggling with achieving this "worklife balance" actually have multiple competing priorities and none of which are balanced on any given day. Some days it may be more like 7http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bridging-gaps/wo... |