[BBLISA] BBLISA January Meeting This web (2014-01-08)

[John P. Rouillard]

Hi all:

Thanks to the 25 or so people who showed up for Decembers talk on
"Project Managers as Value Role in IT" with Cathleen Bonner.  I will
be getting the slides up soon.

Our January talk will be:

Title: Fragile Ops
Speaker: Patrick Cable

 The role of the central IT department is changing. No longer are users
 happy inadequate IT organizations that create solutions that aren't fully
 baked out. More executives just want to "throw some cloud on it." Given the
 difference of user expectations between internal services and what the
 outside appears to offer -- can you blame them? This talk focuses on how IT
 lost its edge, and how IT organizations can work towards being more
 human-focused and ultimately regarded as business game-changers and not
 just a cost center.

 Patrick Cable is an infrastructure system administrator at a local research
 institute. He's currently working on managing a network used in hardware
 design and verification. He also provides guidance to other internal groups
 about best practices in system management. Prior to his current job, he
 operated an IT consulting business that worked with a variety of clients -
 including small and large businesses, and municipalities.

to be held on January 8 2014 at MIT building E-51, Room 149 at 7:00 pm.

I hope to see you there.

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				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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My employers don't acknowledge my existence much less my opinions.