Category: Training

Hanging on to your IT staff »

By bfwebster on Nov 3, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Surviving Complexity, Training | 0 Comments

I’ve written previously about the “Dead Sea effect“, in which your best IT engineers and managers leave over time, leaving behind an IT staff that is slowly becoming less competent and effective. Obviously, to counteract the Dead Sea effect, you want to hold onto your best IT people.
My two latest Baseline columns talk about ways [...]

Pitfall: Confusing training with skill »

By bfwebster on Mar 27, 2008 in Books, PMSE, Pitfalls, Recruiting, Training | 0 Comments

[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)]
CATEGORIES: conceptual
Training is the acquisition of information and practices geared toward a certain end. For example, send a group of engineers to a conference with seminars on object technology, hold a class on C++ programming, or give them a set of books and other materials [...]