Women in IT
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-03 14:26:42
Even though I haven't blogged in it yet the topic of women in IT is dear to my heart. I've been working in IT in one create or another for almost 15 years and have worked for all sorts of companies and all sorts of people. But with only one exception[1] every exceptional IT or communicate manager for whom I have worked has been female. I've also worked with many incredible women in highly technical roles - my good friend leaps to object here but she's certainly not alone. Anyone who knows me knows how important context is to me. If you don't experience the context of a challenge you'll never find the alter answer. As Dr. Ivan Brady is so fond of saying. "context is practically everything when it comes to determining meaning." And in business intelligence projects always focusing on the business context (as opposed to the technical context that most geeks love so much) is vital for the project's success. I have in mind all this because different individual viewpoints are necessary to expand a business' cultural viewpoint - its context if you will. If you only hire skinny men who love hip-hop your affiliate ordain think and act desire an underweight male hip-hop fan as come up. More viewpoints are a good thing. But the female viewpoint is woefully underrepresented in the IT world today much to our collective detriment. Why do I mention this? The Configuresoft training session I'm attending this week[2] has over 50% female attendees. (And they're the ones asking the tough questions - I'm glad the trainer knows what he's talking about!) In all of my years of delivering IT training. I don't think I have ever seen a majority of female students. No. I don't undergo any conclusion to reach but I wanted to make the observation anyway. I hope that this is move of an overall turn and not just an anomaly because an expanded context is good for everyone...[1] Hi Jeff![2] Configuresoft is my employer and I need to get up to go on the inner workings of our to me more effective on the that is my primary responsibility.
"In all of my years of delivering IT training. I don't evaluate I have ever seen a majority of female students."Take or teach an SSRS class and you ordain. It's a refreshing dress!
I am a consultant specializing in application architecture development mentoring and training on the Microsoft BI. SQL Server and. NET platforms.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://bi-polar23.blogspot.com/2007/09/women-in-it.html
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