Steve Woollcott MSc, FIAP, MAPM has spent 17 years working in Public Sector IT, six of them in senior management positions. He recently took up directorships with P-SAZ Ltd and Publictemps Ltd, a company specialising in placing temporary and contract staff in the Public Sector. Here he gives his views on E-commerce opportunities in the […]
E-business Expo is at the Grand Hall Olympia, London, from 7 – 9 November. Call 0870 7511 468 or email ebizexpo@reedexpo.co.uk for details. [Got an event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]
IAP President Jim Bates is Development Director with Computer Forensics Ltd. Here he discusses the principles involved in his work. To define my terms: a “computer” is any electronic device capable of processing and/or storing information and the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines “forensic” as “of or used in courts of law”. How computers store information […]
The Oxford University Software Engineering Centre was opened on 30th June. An historic building in the heart of Oxford, it has been sensitively restored and equipped as a high-quality teaching centre. This was made possible through its recognition by the Government as a Centre of Excellence leading to support from the DfEE, with additional funding […]
Recently, my ISP sent me an email announcing a change in its hosting mechanism that would entail changes to passwords, server names and so on. They would email me later with the specifics. OK, I thought, but why two emails when they could have sent the information in the first? As it happened, ‘later’ turned […]
IAP Provisional Accounts for the year ended 31 May 2000 2000 1999 INCOME Application Fees and Subscriptions £174,578 £162,995 Other Income £24,018 £16,684 Total Income £198,596 £179,679 EXPENSES Services to Members and Promotional […]
AGM: the IAP’s Annual General Meeting will be held in the Shakespeare room at the Anchor Inn, Bankside, London, SE1 on Saturday 14 October starting at 5.30 p.m. Please contact us on 0208 567 2118 or email admin@iap.org.uk if you plan to attend. Only Members and Fellows may vote at a General Meeting, but all […]
These pages represent a new venture, both for the IAP and for VSJ, so I’ll start by outlining the kinds of things we envisage going into them over the coming months: Sounding Board: This will be IAP members’ opportunity to get things off their chests. What do you think about IR35, the charge that Microsoft […]
Work in Progress *David Deeks, FIAP, a lecturer at Sunderland University (one of the IAP’s partner universities) is developing a new structured systems analysis and design tool called PISO (Process Improvement for Strategic Objectives). It uses conventional physical and logical data flow diagrams, but in a way that allows strategic objectives at any level of […]
