Calling all senior analysts! QA, an IAP Partner Organisation, is launching a Senior Analyst Workshop in July 2001. This advanced course for experienced business analysts is for those of you with at least eighteen months experience of working as an analyst /programmer on IT projects and who are looking for further analysis and design methods […]
Bill Cleary, MIAP is Professional Skills Business Manager with Global Knowledge, an IAP Partner Organisation. Here he writes about the problems of translating technical staff into managers – the Peter Principle writ large! I’ll remember the look on his face for a long time. “But it’s not what I want to do. I build systems […]
Phillip Hamlyn and Raymond Butler are both standing for election to the Council this year. They describe their backgrounds below and explain the directions they think the Institution should be following. I have worked in IT for 13 years both as an employee and as a contractor specialising in PC database systems development, originally in […]
Wot, no opinions? Perhaps everyone has aimed their bile directly at the Chancellor of the Exchequer (or whoever) this month or maybe the appearance of Spring has imbued you all with the essence of sweetness and light. Whatever the reason, my inbox is empty! So I’ll take this opportunity to announce the IAP Council’s intention […]
If you want to look at the latest technology in applications serving, visit Citrix iForum, which takes place on 13 and 14 June at the Wembley Conference Centre. See www.citrix.com/forum2001ne for more information. Are you looking for funding for a project? EUPraxis is a Web site that provides project promoters and other organisations interested in […]
Steve Cumbers, FIAP is a director of Apollo Consulting and Vice President of the IAP Council to which he is standing for re-election this spring. Prompted in part by Charles Ross’ article last month, he gives us his view of the IT Skills conundrum. OPEN QUESTIONS: IT is an amorphous ‘sector’ with many poorly classified […]
John Ellis is standing for Council this year. Here he talks about his background and hopes for the Institution. I am married with 4 children and have been a member of the IAP since 1992 and been involved in computing since 1977. My career began as a computer operator working on ICL and Honeywell mainframes […]
John Williams, FIAP writes: I was amused at Clinton Jones’ article on the use of spreadsheets where databases would be more appropriate. I too have noticed this trend, but am aware that I am guilty of a similar, related one. Having programmed databases for many years now, but with very little contact with spreadsheets, I […]
The IQPC Conference on IT Application Integration for e-Business runs from 25 and 27 April at Crowne Plaza, St James, London. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]
Notice Board If you want to look at the latest technology in applications serving, visit Citrix iForum, which takes place on 13 and 14 June at the Wembley Conference Centre. See www.citrix.com/forum2001ne for more information. Are you looking for funding for a project? EUPraxis is a Web site that provides project promoters and […]
