If there's one thing that just about every IT professional on the planet can identify with, it's the difficulty in striking a work/life balance. The nature of the job is such that not only is there no such thing as a 40-hour work week, there's no such thing as a week in which you really know how many hours you'll be working. So how on earth do you create a balance under those extraordinary circumstances? According to workplace consultant and author Jon Gordon, you don't. In fact, he says, you need to throw the idea of striking a work/life balance out the window, because it's unattainable, and striving for it will lead to nothing but frustration and disappointment. Read more > Get the Business of Tech RSS Feed  |
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Public, private, or both. These are the three basic choices when it comes to cloud computing, and there is no shortage of experts ready to tout one solution over the other. To date, the big knock against private clouds is their complexity and the need to develop a lot of in-house expertise to deploy and manage them. However, a startup called Piston Cloud Computing says it is breaking down that barrier with its CloudKey workflow system, which can be launched from any laptop with a USB port. CTO Christopher MacGown explains.
In today's "agile" and "extreme" development cultures, it's easy for team members' roles to become a little blurred as a project advances. But even in a flexible environment, there still needs to be a division of labor to meet goals and avoid redundancy — particularly in the scope and planning phases. You can wait to get all scrummy when the coding starts.
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