[LINK] new IT council

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> What is it with the IT industry that we have so many people in senior
> positions in industry bodies, vendors and user IT departments with no
> formal qualifications in Electronics or Computer Science?

Same reason all B type "project managers" seem to have "COBOL" as 
their only programming language set ;)

> I don't suppose there is relationship between this observation and the
> extraordinary number of large scale IT project failures?

I think it is.  I know of a project where the "project manager" is 
buying in consultants to oversee the other consultants because the 
job is beyond her.


rachel 
(no quals, but plenty of commonsense - I'm one of those UNIX radicals, BTW)

-- 
Rachel Polanskis                 Kingswood, Greater Western Sydney, Australia
grove at zeta.org.au                http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html
 		The price of greatness is responsibility.