Monthly Archives: December 2012

#6 – I QUIT! WORKING FOR YOU ISN’T WORKING ISN’T WORKING FOR ME – ELIZABETH LIONS

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Elizabeth Lions PixWe are often asked to review books.  Elizabeth Lions I Quit! Working For You Isn’t Working For Me is a must-read and must-buy book.
This timely business book offers cutting edge job seeking tips to all professionals who have survived the recent recession intact and now want an exit strategy.  Too many  American workers are disengaged, cranky and looking for something better.  Suffering from daily exposure to low morale among their coworkers, these Americans are what Lions’ calls the survivors of recession.

#6 – CHANGES COMING SOON TO ISO 9001 AND COSO – SANDFORD LIEBESMAN – QUALITY@RISK

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I’m a committee member for two very different standards—ISO 9001 and the COSO internal control guidance document used to comply with the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).1  While these documents cover different activities in an organization, they share a need to update the current versions.

COSO is a management system that was originally developed in the 1980s in response to the savings and loan scandal.  It is used for internal control over operations and compliance to external financial reporting requirements.  COSO consists of five elements used to manage systems of internal control: Continue reading →

#6 – SOFTWARE DEFECT ORIGINS AND REMOVAL METHODS – (C) CAPERS JONES – TECHNOLOGY@RISK

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Capers Jones pixThe cost of finding and fixing bugs or defects is the largest single expense element in the history of software.  Bug repairs start with requirements and continue through development.  After release bug repairs and related customer support costs continue until the last user signs off.  Over a 25 year life expectancy of a large software system in the 10,000 function point size range almost 50 cents out of every dollar will go to finding and fixing bugs. Continue reading →

#6 – WHAT YOU SHOULD NEVER DO WITH A SUSPICIOUS COMPUTER – CAROLYN TURBYFILL – TECHNOLOGY@RISK

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turbyfillSpoiler Alert:  If you haven’t seen SkyFall and you do not want to know anything about the movie before you see it – don’t read the rest of this article.

“Sometimes you have to just let art flow over you.” – (Nick – William Hurt in the “Big Chill”).

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#6 – HOW TECHNICAL PEOPLE BLOW INTERVIEWS – ELIZABETH LIONS – CAREERS@RISK

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Elizabeth Lions PixIt’s a shame when a technical person blows an interview.  It makes me uncomfortable because I get concerned we may have missed something in our hiring process.  What if our process caused some great engineer to not get the job?  What if all the skills were there, but we failed to ask the right questions.

Interviews are by and large difficult – for anyone.  The potential employee feels pressure and unnatural.  Technical people may have the most difficulty if their communication isn’t strong or clear.

Here are the five common things that go wrong in a technical interview:

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