Why IT workers stressed

You could have guessed it :-) Common complaints included

• stress due to taking on other people’s work
• lack of job satisfaction; lack of control over daily duties
• managerial pressure
• interruptions
• bullying

How not to lead geeks

This is a really awesome article that has made the headlines on Digg. A very useful information. And watch out for the nerd promoted into management. The person is likely to behave like a bull in china shop. This is ironic because the same person may suffered from the same behaivor before and once in different shoes it's all too easy to forget what works and what not. Anywhays here is the short summary.

How not to lead geeks:

1: Downplay training
2: Give no recognition
3: Plan too much overtime
4: Use management-speak
5: Try to be smarter than the geeks
6: Act inconsistent
7: Ignore the geeks
8: Make decisions without consulting them
9: Don’t give them tools
10: Forget that geeks are creative workers

http://positivesharing.com/2006/03/how-not-to-lead-geeks/

IT Commandments: amen brother

Thou shalt read this link:

IT Commandments: Ignore them at your own risk

Our IT Commandments:

1. Thou shalt not outsource mission critical functions
2. Thou shalt not pretend
3. Thou shalt honor and empower thy (Unix) sysadmins
4. Thou shalt leave the ideology to someone else
5. Thou shalt not confuse projects with planning
6. Thou shalt not condemn departments doing their own IT
7. Thou shalt put thy users first, above all else
8. Thou shalt give something back to the community
9. Thou shalt not use nonsecure protocols on thy network
10. Thou shalt free thy content
11. Thou shalt not ignore security risks when choosing platforms
12. Thou shalt not fear change
13. Thou shalt document all thy works
14. Thou shalt loosely couple