Category: Hiring

The Art of ‘Ware (V 2.0, maxim 2:1): budgeting for IT staff »

By bfwebster on Mar 24, 2008 in Art of 'Ware, Books, Hiring, Main | 0 Comments

[From The Art of ‘Ware (Version 2.0) by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming), Chapter 2, “Supporting Development”]
A parable in the Bible talks about counting the cost of something before you start to build. That truth is ancient and obvious, yet I’ve seen too many companies ignore it. Once you know what you want to do, you [...]

The decline in computer science students (part 1) »

By bfwebster on Mar 5, 2008 in Education, Hiring, Main | 3 Comments

When I gradated with my BS in computer science from Brigham Young University in 1978, we had roughly 120 undergraduate students in the CS program. When I came back to teach in 1985 — just seven years later — there were over 1,000 undergraduate students in the program, and you actually had to apply to [...]

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