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Graham Jones (Chair 2009-2010 Culminis Global Board) Back in April 2008 I wrote a blog here entitled “ Professionalizing the Profession ”. I was inspired to write this following a presentation made by Stephen Ibaraki [blogger extraordinaire and regular
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional and President of VANTUG ) The Opportunity to Spread the Word Last week Stephen Ibaraki (blogger extraordinaire – congrats on being named one of the top 10 in Canada ) and I attended the "Global" MVP Summit and
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional and President of VANTUG ) The Traditional Role The traditional role for most UG's has been to hold technical events to inform and educate their members, promote networking between members and perhaps to run certification
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional) Leading VANTUG I have written here several times about running User Groups and the important part that I believe that they play in the IT Community. When I took over as Leader of VANTUG a little over 6 years
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional) Keeping Things Current As already stated in part 1 the quality of the data is paramount. Keeping the resource plan up to date requires organization and discipline. The frequency for doing this may vary by project
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional) Putting It All Together From a resource planning standpoint we need to see the total demand picture into the future by discipline. The components that make up that picture are: Project backlog, ie. currently
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC - IT Professional) The Problem In a project environment it is an ongoing challenge to match human resource requirements and skills to project and proposal demands. You need to try and avoid a surplus, which goes straight to the
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Graham Jones (Surrey, BC, IT Professional) Recently I was having a “serious” conversation with my son and it was progressing as usual, ie. not going much of anywhere. As the frustration level was rising I said to him, “you need to work on your Active
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) About 25 years ago I became involved in 3D Computer Aided Design of process plants using a product called PDMS (Plant Design Management System) which is now marketed under the company name Aveva . I was the
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) In a recent blog here I wrote about JDQ’s nomination for the 2007 BCTIA Technology Impact Award for Leadership in Social Responsibility. The awards dinner was on June 6 th and I had the pleasure of being there
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) I have written here a number of times about JDQ and their 3Spheres community program. One of my blogs was an interview with Jon Morris , JDQ President. In that interview I asked Jon about his reasoning behind
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) Over the past few months Stephen Ibaraki and I have written several times about the Neil Squire Society (NSS) and the great work that they do in adapting computers for use by the handicapped and their very
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) I was recently contacted by Joanna Trebon of a non-profit organization (NPO) called the Electronic Recycling Association that refurbishes computer hardware for use by other NPO's. They were seeking my help
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) As usual Stephen has beaten me to it but then of course he barely sleeps! I too was at the MVP Summit for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated the whole affair. Canada was very well represented
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Graham Jones (Vancouver, President of VANTUG) I noted Celso's comment about language being a barrier in one of his projects . It reminded me of one of my own experiences. Inevitably when dealing with contract language, the legal profession usually gets
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