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Employment News
There is no
documentation on the application (code) - When a program fails at a critical
point in time and the error is investigated you find there is no documentation
of what the code does, how it impacts other applications, and the programmer who
wrote the code cannot be identified or is no longer with your
enterprise. No application
relationship diagram is available – When it is time to upgrade or change
and you find that there is no application interface definition nor is there any
documentation which tells you how the application interfaces with all of the
other applications within the enterprise. Key employee is actively
seeking a new job or looking to retire – Out of 100 IT employees 22
change jobs within each 12 months.
Add to that the fact that between 20 to 30% of "legacy" system experts
are going to retire within the next 5 years and you have another issue the CIO
needs to address. Users and the CIO want
an application and you cannot document the ROI – Pressure is placed on
you to build the business case for a new application or an enhancement to an
existing one and you cannot prove that it meets the enterpriseÂ’s ROI
threshold. You do not know what the
CIO’s vision is – You are in a meeting with users and the CIO and say
something that shows that you are not on the same page as the
CIO.
A
bundle of Job Descriptions have been created for Enterprise Architecture. In
addition several other job descriptions have been updated to reflect the
Enterprise Architecture The
Internet and IT Job Description
WORD files have also been updated to include these changes.
Scientists at the University of Leipzig have taken a close look what your
e-mail address says about you. They
found that people really do judge others based on the e-mail addresses they
choose. What's more interesting, however, is that these judgments tend to be
right. In a
research published recently in the Journal of Research in Personality, the
scientists took a look at just e-mail addresses and had the people who created
them fill out a brief personality questionnaire. Then, they asked other students
to rate these same addresses to find out if the e-mail names seemed to be
neurotic, open, agreeable, conscientious, narcissistic or extroverted.
They
discovered is that the students tended to judge people based on their addresses.
The researchers say it's astonishing that the sliver of information that you
pass on in your e-mail address can be enough for people to get a valid read on
your personality. Their
advice is simple: Choose an address you like. After all, is it really such a bad
thing for others to see you the way you are?
(cNet) -
The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a state law ruling that
employers cannot restrict employees from working for a competitor or soliciting
former clients when they leave the company. That may be good news for California-based tech employees who want to
take their skills to another company, or head a start-up that may directly
compete with their former employer. "Noncompete" contracts, in place largely to
protect an employer's intellectual property, began being used by companies
during the dot-com boom to prevent losing valuable workers in a competitive
technology labor market. The California law has been in existence since 1872, forbidding
"noncompete clauses" that restrict management employees' options in their next
job or business. But the law has been interpreted differently throughout the
state, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled in
favor of allowing a company to limit their employees' future job choices, as
long as it doesn't prevent them from working in the same field. Thursday's ruling was a response to the Edwards vs. Arthur Andersen case,
stating clearly that Edwards, a tax manager, signed an invalid noncompete
clause. The court said in its final disposition (see PDF) that "Non-competition agreements are invalid...in
California even if narrowly drawn."
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function. The twelve (12) job descriptions
are: