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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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I wonder why that URL isn't active? They could be making a lot of money off of it, although I guess they're just hoping someone will buy it off them.
TTFN - Kent
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New research finds that Internet speeds could be greatly increased by removing infrastructural latencies and that a speed-of-light Internet could be created for a fairly low cost. "Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is,"
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All developers know about the importance of code reviews, but only some companies have a defined policy and just a few of them manage them effectively. A+++ Five Stars. Would compile again
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It's very simple. The people who should not be writing code should also not be reviewing code.
Marc
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This document is meant to be a collaborative discussion of the best practices in C++. I thought that's what C# was for?
Or should I have gone with VB again?
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This week, a blog post on Microsoft's Australia Partner Network offered more detailed information about the specific paths for upgrading to Windows 10. You'd think that they'd throw in a free upgrade from Vista out of sympathy
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The virtual machine that runs Java is also the runtime for new languages -- some quite unlike Java. "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection."
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Results from the CIO Executive Council’s ‘Power of Effective IT Communication’ benchmark survey indicate that IT teams lack the talent to communicate. This results in a state of crisis between IT and non-IT employees, which could prove disastrous in this era of unparalleled digital disruption. "What we've got here is failure to communicate"
Yes. Yes I did have to use that quote.
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...it's not the IT teams that lack communication skills.
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 Let's not have reality step into corporate stereotypes now 
TTFN - Kent
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Jeff Brown:
You nailed it
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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For real! We can communicate just fine. It's just that we speak English (or whatever the native language is), not management buzzword-speak like mindless jakka birds....
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Yes, there is a huge problem with this, but not all IT people socially inept. I find that business users are many times looking to push their weight around, because they don't understand what that want in a software product. Also, I sometimes see business people being difficult because they are scared IT will eliminate the need for their jobs.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This results in a state of crisis between IT and non-IT employees, which could prove disastrous in this era of unparalleled digital disruption.
Been there, expereince it right now. The problem isn't always IT people failing to communicate, but users who lack even a basic grasp of what a computer is and what it can do. See, if you let a user use a specialized scanning and interpreting solution when he/she can't even create a new folder in the file system, there is a lot of training left to do. And the user doesn't always wants to be trained (not even talking about seeing the need of training efforts - "I was able to use it to check my emails, I'm a PC expert"-mentality) because it's easier to just blame the software.
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I fail to see why this problem is being blamed on IT. Communication is a two way dialog. IT is one of those areas that impacts the entire business due to its cross-cutting nature. It is therefore not easily understood by those who are more used to focussing on their own single area of the business i.e. finance, HR etc. IT is also by its very nature a technical area, so anyone without a technical background will likely fail to grasp the basic concepts and ideas.
It all too easy to blame other people and departments. Maybe a closer look in the mirror and taking personal responsibility is needed.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Hi,
This sounds resonable, but it must come from both sides. Once I was evaluating sofware for lawyers and the makers of it wanted them to learn regular expressions ...  Not a realistic expectation in my view. So, we (IT) must (also) take responsiblity if we want the users to be happy ...Indeed communicating to non-specialists is a challenge, but it must be possible.
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See my second sentence.
Quote: Communication is a two way dialog
I was bringing balance to the discussion, unlike the article which seemed to want to lay the blame on IT.
I agree that trying to communicate complex technical ideas to the non technical is challenging. I am sure many scientists have discovered this too. Some are better at it than others.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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And it's not just the IT field either.
Let's just face it, communicating clearly is a skill not many people possess.
You can say the truth, and say it clear, but if you say it in a wrong tone, or with a wrong expression on your face, the message won't land, or worse, people will actively refuse the message!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: that IT teams lack the talent to communicate.
Or maybe just nobody is listening.
Marc
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