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Links that come across my path that I think may be of interest or enrichment for IS undergraduates.
Updated on Sep 10, 12
Created on Aug 08, 11
Category: Computers & Internet
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chellery stick's List: For IS students
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Project Management and System Analysis
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Most estimates rely on someone’s gut sense made of three parts experience and one part eye of newt. The problem is that this estimation method has only a single piece of data (even if backed up by years of hoary experience, and a mass of battle scars). Each of these estimates is a possible point of failure. Multiply this point of failure by the number of cases you have and then by the number of members on your team and suddenly you have possibly hundreds of problem areas.
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We take the actual estimates of the developers and run a Monte Carlo simulation against a randomly chosen velocity from their history.
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Design: Front Ends and Back Ends
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usage and employee productivity skyrocket when a department-based IA is replaced by a task-based IA.
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Technology and Society
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Aug 08, 11
If you could adjust your filters, would you? Do you use the Recent filters in Facebook, or the custom categories in Netflix?
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Aug 08, 11
Bruce Schneier is one of the top security experts in the known universe.
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Aug 08, 11
"Well, my doctor prescribed a patient community, Acor.org, a network of cancer patients, of all amazing things. "
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Business and Entrepreneurship
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Jul 21, 11
What is the problem? How does shortmail fix it? What are the pros and cons of using such a service? How could it improve and inhibit your writing?
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Students
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Apr 10, 11
"If you're having a hard time imagining what an education in entrepreneurship should include, allow me to prime the pump with some lessons I've learned along the way.
Combine Skills. The first thing you should learn in a course on entrepreneurship is how to make yourself valuable. It's unlikely that any average student can develop a world-class skill in one particular area. But it's easy to learn how to do several different things fairly well. I succeeded as a cartoonist with negligible art talent, some basic writing skills, an ordinary sense of humor and a bit of experience in the business world. The "Dilbert" comic is a combination of all four skills. The world has plenty of better artists, smarter writers, funnier humorists and more experienced business people. The rare part is that each of those modest skills is collected in one person. That's how value is created.
Fail Forward. If you're taking risks, and you probably should, you can find yourself failing 90% of the time. The trick is to get paid while you're doing the failing and to use the experience to gain skills that will be useful later. I failed at my first career in banking. I failed at my second career with the phone company. But you'd be surprised at how many of the skills I learned in those careers can be applied to almost any field, including cartooning. Students should be taught that failure is a process, not an obstacle.
Find the Action. In my senior year of college I asked my adviser how I should pursue my goal of being a banker. He told me to figure out where the most innovation in banking was happening and to move there. And so I did. Banking didn't work out for me, but the advice still holds: Move to where the action is. Distance is your enemy.
Attract Luck. You can't manage luck directly, but you can manage your career in a way that makes it easier for luck to find you. To succeed, first you must do something. And if that doesn't work, which can be 90% of the time, do something else. Luck finds the doers. Readers of -
Apr 21, 11
You probably want to set yourself up to make at least 8 or 9% ROI. If you can get extra scholarships and/or better jobs after, you should be able to improve on that.
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Careers and Teamwork
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Aug 12, 11
Houston, Washington DC, Columbus OH, Detroit, Philadelphia, Edison NJ, and Boston are hot places to find IT jobs this year, says CIO magazine.
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Aug 21, 12
Office Depot provides a nice list of templates and worksheets for entrepreneurs and managers, including business plans, marketing, and employee hiring and management forms.
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"What isn't good is confusion."
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Do you want the symbol of your crappy service to "go viral" or become a cultural phenomenon?
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