Podcast Interviews

philz1982

TechExams! I am going to start interviewing SME's around technology for my podcasts if you know your stuff and you'd like to spread your brand please pm me and we can discuss!

N2IT

This sound great. I'd like to discuss project management if at all possible.

philz1982

Sure send me an PM and I will set it up, I will do it via skype and store it on my Blog. The first few times may be a little weird as I get the format solid.

N2IT

Perfect sounds great. Of course we can break it down into manageable size pieces. Communication Management would be the most valuable imo.

philz1982

That and scope/expectation management...

N2IT

Expectation would role up under communication, scope management is a fairy tale in IT. Requirements always change and going through some crazy change management process is not real world.

Of course I am speaking from real world experience and not a PMP text book. Hence why I find agile methodologies much more useful and interesting.

Scope management is more important in high dollar capital projects. The projects I manage are usually new AR modules added on to our portal or database integration from two different RDBMS.

In fact (sort of off topic) we are migrating our Data warehouse from a conventional RDBMS to SAP HANA or HADOOP. Should be interesting.

hurricane1091

Can we talk about why people use ellipses...my boss does it too and it grinds my gears but I can't ask him, so I'm asking you...it feels so passive aggressive don't you think...I feel like he's always mad at me or something...

N2IT

Hurricane I always assumed you use those for unfinished thoughts / omitting information.

philz1982

hurricane1091 wrote: »

Can we talk about why people use ellipses...my boss does it too and it grinds my gears but I can't ask him, so I'm asking you...it feels so passive aggressive don't you think...I feel like he's always mad at me or something...

I look at it like one of those great create the story books, if Phil uses .... jump to page 50 if he uses .. jump to page 45. My usage of ellipses allows you to add your own thoughts to the journey.... If I simply talked in clearly punctuated sentences their would be no mystery. It's much more fun to leave you hanging... What else does Phil mean? What could he really be saying??? Who knows...

hurricane1091

N2IT wrote: »

Hurricane I always assumed you use those for unfinished thoughts / omitting information.

I'm just curious to find out if it's something that comes with age or what.

Example of e-mail from last week: Thanks "my name". I’ll review…

Like, the vibe I get is that "I don't care, I'm busy, yes I told you to get it done but when I get a chance I'll look at the damn thing" but I could be totally off here!

philz1982

I'm 33 so I'm not sure what age has to do with it. I think it's just a way of saying, stay tuned more to come....