Meryl's Notes Blog

InformIT has many excellent articles this week and I believe they’re worth sharing.

• Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan from a DBA perspective. . Another article on the same topic. Between 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, businesses need to take disaster recovery and business continuity planning seriously. Sadly, many didn’t learn from 9/11.

• The Tipping Point: How Good Companies Go Bad and Executives become Rogues. What makes an exec go bad? How do we break the cycle?

• Women Who Step out of the Corporate World Find It Hard to Step Back in. With many women taking a break from the corporate world, they’re finding it difficult to return in this much changed corporate environment. Even Desperate Housewives plans to address this in the new season as Lynette goes back to work and apparently, it’s not an easy transition because her boss doesn’t like women who take off to be with their kids.

• One Size Fits One: Tailoring Technology to Consumer Needs. Consumers today are more demanding because of the environment. How can we customize for each person?

• Real-World Project Management: Project Management Models, Certifications, and the Pyramids. I know people who are certified PMs or working to take the test. Based on their talk, the certification is worthless. I’d take someone who has proven experience over a certificate … easy.