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Employee value alignment

Imagine you’re looking for work, and you’re trying to find a job as a Project Manager. The company hiring you says that you need to have a Masters’s degree, ITIL v3, PMP, CCNP Security, and a minimum of 10 years’ experience to be capable of meeting the position requirements. What should you ask for as a pay rate? Well, if you have to pay for the certification and the time required to get the certification, should you not be compensated? Here...
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Technical Project Roles

In this write-up I will discuss the Technical Project roles of three positions Planning, Engineering (Technical) and Integration (installation).  Often times there is no clear delineation of the roles and this can affect efficiency, scope and most definitely timelines of a project or process. Towards the end of the post I will put down the industry best practices for these three positions, as I would not want any of my peers thinking I just came up with an original thought...
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Employee titles ARE important

Total Technical Solutions Why  ARE Employee titles important? I love watching shows and reading on companies that have removed the barriers of titles for their employees and everyone shows up to work and gets it done.  I am sure this is great for the common techie or worker but management roles and responsibilities must be dictated and distinguished, especially for profit companies that are wanting to ensure that there is a pilot at the controls, but employee titles are important.  Sure having 300...
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Spherical Management Concept

The Spherical Management Concept shows how traditional project planning methods are antiquated and limited in their operational usefulness. In today's Agile and mobile environment there needs to be better project management control of the whole environment, not just limited to a basic view of the operational area. This concept is a practiced methodology of Gustavo Coutin (the architect of the concept) and his plans are to standardize and instruct on this method. (Design Initiated 10/10/2014) Traditional Management Concept The visual three dimensional video...
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How to strategically align employees training for corporate ROI dollars

In my 22 plus years of working in IT, one event stands out more than any other in my mind, the technicians' belief that somehow a company is responsible for their training and professional development outside of the actual company's business need. The Company's responsibility for training I am constantly amazed at the feelings and conversations that are generated by IT personnel when a company will not pay for certification training that has nothing to do with a company's operations.  I have...
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