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Midwest IT Survival / Statistics for 2011

Sun, 27 May 2012 16:39:21 +0000

HVAC Redmond - Thanks for the note. Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the Tiger. Grrr!!! We read "Une Boite Remplis de Bisous" in my class.

Midwest IT Survival / Statistics for 2011

Sun, 27 May 2012 16:38:26 +0000

Everett Chiropractic - I have recently been searching for information about this topic forWhen you is the best I have found so far. However, the bottom line? You are positive about the source?

Midwest IT Survival / Hooked on Tablet Computing

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:52:32 +0000

Brian Hopkins - tx for ref to my blog - Brian

Midwest IT Survival / Hooked on Tablet Computing

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:58:24 +0000

jfbauer - Jon, thanks for the positive feedback. I'm going to give your "Files and Folders" a try. From the looks of your web site and the write-up in the App World it looks very appealing.

Midwest IT Survival / Hooked on Tablet Computing

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:41:10 +0000

Jon - Nice write-up John. You might like to try Files & Folders. Like AIR browser it's a file manager, but it adds Dropbox, Box.net, Google Docs access. http://bit.ly/filesfolders

Midwest IT Survival / Longer the Project More the Need for Transparency

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:59:18 +0000

jfbauer - Mark, spoken like you've suffered such "over management" engagement on a few IT projects in your career? Thanks for stopping by.

Midwest IT Survival / Longer the Project More the Need for Transparency

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:19:43 +0000

Mark W. Schumann -

This confidence can lead to senior management getting the impression the project is “under control” and move on to another project for increased scrutiny rather than assigning all kinds of ancillary people to dig into your project to figure out why they don’t have that “under control” feeling.

So true. All that scrutiny, when it is not needed, just skews your priorities and makes it MUCH harder to get the technical work done.

Midwest IT Survival / Statistics for 2011

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:29:15 +0000

jfbauer - Shim, thanks for the positive feedback. Glad my stats wrap-up prompted you to get your Google Analytics up and running again!

Midwest IT Survival / Initial Foray into Tablet Computing

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:47:20 +0000

jfbauer - Bob, sorry, it looks like my wording is indeed poor. The original list price for the 64GB PlayBook was $699. RIMM's recent (and I believe still valid till early Feb. this year) price reduction has the 64GB PlayBook selling online through shopblackberry.com at $299 with free shipping. I'll reword my article to be more clear on this point.

Midwest IT Survival / Initial Foray into Tablet Computing

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:28:39 +0000

Bob - Just wondering, but it says: "originally priced at $699 for $299." Can you please tell me which it is?? Thanks!

Midwest IT Survival / Statistics for 2011

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:33:52 +0000

Shim Marom - Hi John, and well done on your performance last year. Incidentally, having read your post I went into Google Analytics to check my own performance and realized it recorded zero visits. It appears i have not configured it correctly in my blog and so it did not detect any visitors to my site. Thanks to you I how had it fixed and it seems to be working correctly. So THANK YOU!!! Cheers, Shim.

Midwest IT Survival / Secure Mobile Application Barriers

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:30:12 +0000

Staples Coupons - Hi there, Great piece of information. It is going to improve my Development services. Thanks for sharing such an informative post and letting me to share my thoughts.

Midwest IT Survival / Gartner Security Summit 2011 - Day3

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:23:27 +0000

TheCFO - Great call on BiTKOO, Quest Software announced their acquisition today.

Midwest IT Survival / Cloud Computing is Evolutionary not Revolutionary

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:43:28 +0000

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Midwest IT Survival / Secure Mobile Application Barriers

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 08:57:34 +0000

culline59 - It is a very informative post and really very helpful to improve Development services. Thanks for sharing such an informative post.

Midwest IT Survival / Senior Management Communication for the Technically Proficient Part 2

Thu, 6 Oct 2011 16:52:04 +0000

jfbauer - Scott, agree completely. I was trying to convey the notion that you need to think in the terms senior management does. I have to check myself because I still find my default approach is to dig into the details, sort out the relevant facts that support a particular decision/recommendation and then repeat those facts. In repeating, I fail to take into account that others didn't do the research and thus those facts don't resonate with them as they do me. I have to force myself to "relate" those facts to the goals and objectives of senior management. Hence, I have to force myself back to those 5 steps I've outlined to make sure my message, in story form, is digestible by my audience. It sure is hard sometimes to break out of the engineering mindset of facts and data and focus on structuring a message that resonates to senior management.

Midwest IT Survival / Senior Management Communication for the Technically Proficient Part 2

Thu, 6 Oct 2011 10:54:19 +0000

Scott Vercuski - Love the "Relate the facts" section. Sounds odd saying it but to me, this is almost better than straight facts. If senior management has a definite and material goal in mind and you develop something akin to what you've written, it makes it much more difficult for senior management to ignore. It's saying "I'm proposing something that YOU'VE made a goal, following YOUR plan, YOUR timeframe, YOUR budget restraints.". It seems much harder to ignore when it's got most (not everything, that .. I've found ... is almost impossible) of what you (as a member of senior management) are looking for. Defending a rejection of a well defined proposal becomes tougher I believe. If most of the goals of the project are accounted for (in a reasonable manner) in the proposal then senior (and executive) management would have a harder time rationalizing a rejection.

Midwest IT Survival / Senior Management Communication for the Technically Proficient Part 1

Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:46:42 +0000

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Midwest IT Survival / Senior Management Communication for the Technically Proficient Part 1

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:32:43 +0000

jfbauer - I wish there was a "google translate" for senior management indeed! I've always struggled with finding that balance between enough technical detail to be credible and convincing while not getting so detailed that the message gets muddied. In my current role I seem to be constantly putting together presentations to get consensus on technical direction/approach and thus my presentation skills are getting stress tested. I got some great feedback recently. I've turned that feedback into a "design spec" in my mind that makes the effort more structured. And you know what technical people tend to prefer: structure over chaos. Thanks for stopping by!

Midwest IT Survival / Senior Management Communication for the Technically Proficient Part 1

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:11:13 +0000

Scott Vercuski - Looking forward to part 2 ..... I'm the tech guy who needs this version of "google translate" for senior management !!