Columbo
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Case in point my reaction to those tina songs.
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Case in point my reaction to those tina songs.
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It sounds very job/installation specific/proprietary to me. I had not been involved with it, but looking, it seems to be part of large organisation helpdesking/call centre service management. There seems to be enough job vacancies advertising to warrant it as a solid pragmatic choice. That area will be where steady jobs are. If you are happy/looking to work in management of helpdesk development it sounds appropriate. I don't think it sounds useful for much more other than general experience, so make sure that is where you are heading.@Witty Banter I am looking into getting into project management in relation to implementation of databases etc. I have done a diploma in Project Management, but as someone who has worked in ICT is ITIL foundation training worthwhile? I am just looking at a job and it mentioned this and wondered if it is worthwhile, and know you would give an honest opinion
Cheers in advance!
I am a bit of a devil to talk to, being a programmer, as I'm a firm believer in more programming and less management/regimentation. Our first instinct is to hell with all those regimented standards, we're doing it our way. The online bank I was involved with was a dream situation. I only entered after the existing relationship had turned legal due to major screwups and we had complete rule of the roost. The bank had been paying three project managers more than $2000 a day each and they had just been milking it while the ship was already underwater.
Since that project in about 2000 I've more or less had contempt for managers
I had been invited to the project's Sydney Harbour yacht, champagne and prawns christmas party prior as an outsider and it was unbelievably lavish and OTT. I had no idea until being involved how truly screwed the situation was underneath, being held together by the managers just securing their outlandish fees while misreporting to extend the trough. One of them even wrote and published a book on B2B .Back in 2000, village ten online Scape I think it was, was paying a large team of flown in US programmers $4000-5000 a day and their project never even launched. That will be forever my yardstick in dotcom stupidity.
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OH the memories. Here is the failure announcement for Scape in 2001 after having thrown $22 mill x 2 down the toilet for absolutely nothing. I don't think the public ever saw a thing from this until being shut down. Maybe a single web front page telling them to get ready?
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SCAPE to Cease Operations
Network Ten and Village Roadshow announced today that their online company Scape Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (SCAPE) had been placed in voluntary administration and ceased operations.
To efficiently wind-up SCAPE, Mark Korda and Mark Mentha of Arthur Andersen have been appointed as voluntary administrators.
When Network Ten and Village first set out to develop a joint online presence, strict financial and performance criteria were established. Despite the efforts by the SCAPE team, these criteria had not been met and were unlikely to be achieved in the foreseeable future. A key reason for this has been the failure of the online sector globally to develop as expected.
These developments left Ten and Village little choice but to stop funding SCAPE.
Since the commencement of SCAPE, Village and Ten have each contributed $22 million to their joint online activities. Given their contribution, both Network Ten and Village Roadshow will incur a one-off charge. The full impact of this charge will be finalised following the completion of Arthur Andersen’s administration.
Village and Ten will work closely with the administrator to achieve a reasonable outcome for creditors and ensure that employees are treated fairly. In particular, Village and Ten will enter into arrangements with the administrators to make sure current employees are paid promptly.
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SCAPE to Cease Operations
Network Ten and Village Roadshow announced today that their online company Scape Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (SCAPE) had been placed in voluntary administration and ceased operations.
To efficiently wind-up SCAPE, Mark Korda and Mark Mentha of Arthur Andersen have been appointed as voluntary administrators.
When Network Ten and Village first set out to develop a joint online presence, strict financial and performance criteria were established. Despite the efforts by the SCAPE team, these criteria had not been met and were unlikely to be achieved in the foreseeable future. A key reason for this has been the failure of the online sector globally to develop as expected.
These developments left Ten and Village little choice but to stop funding SCAPE.
Since the commencement of SCAPE, Village and Ten have each contributed $22 million to their joint online activities. Given their contribution, both Network Ten and Village Roadshow will incur a one-off charge. The full impact of this charge will be finalised following the completion of Arthur Andersen’s administration.
Village and Ten will work closely with the administrator to achieve a reasonable outcome for creditors and ensure that employees are treated fairly. In particular, Village and Ten will enter into arrangements with the administrators to make sure current employees are paid promptly.
Ah love your way of thinking there - I look at these BS project management tools (lean management, six sigma etc) and think why do we need to follow this - trust yourself your instincts and your experts in the area to get it right. Some Project management tools seem useful, but some of the methodologies are just a lot of money for something anyone with logic and know how couldn't have done better!
thanks for your 2 cents worth (well it was worth more than that!)
Scape Management sounds like they are up there with the people who ran the Myki project
Columbo
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@Mooseface voice please?
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One other aside is that the conveyancing company I sued are also a leading provider of ISO certifications...yet they totally screwed up dealing with land titles due to human error and subsequent cover ups.
An electronics company I buy parts from signs every delivery with ISO adherence, yet sent me wire by the reel for the price of a foot.
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These links don't seem to contain any content... Do the recordings self combust after a while? It links to an arrow that says Laden/Load(ing) but then when I click nothing happens. And when I clicked on download it said file does not exist...
Columbo
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Hmm, must do. I will try and record another voice thing tonight.
Fuzz
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ISO.
Generally speaking, the ISO certification providers and their adherence through audits are similar to Dickens in their basis in fact.
Maybe its an industry which just attracts anal types. And by that I dont mean their meticulous approach.
Mooseface
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Haha. Are you cute?!
Columbo
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i thought you have seen a photo of me?
Mooseface
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I think I have in a link you posted because I think you have light brown hair and are relatively tall but I have no idea where it was. Or whether I think you are tall from a photo (which I think was mainly a head shot anyway?) or whether you have said somewhere you are tall. Or maybe you are not even talk and I just imagined it.
Columbo
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Mooseface
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Ha. Hello Reepbot. Yes that did work. That was a bit freaky! An actual voice!
Columbo
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do you want to hear the speech?[DOUBLEPOST=1455618199][/DOUBLEPOST]
no, i am tall. i'll post a pic now.
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