Question: Professionally I customize software modules on a well-known software package. The version we are working on is one version back and about a year old. Is continuing to work on this old software version hurting my professional marketability?

The short answer to your question is no, not yet, unless it was a major release that is being quickly and widely adopted.

The longer answer is that, in my opinion, a techie’s skill set from a marketability perspective has a two year half-life. That is to say, that the exact set of skills you have today will only be half as marketable two years from now.

User-Computing, previously called “Shadow IT” until the term was reused by the cloud and cybersecurity community, refers to people outside of IT performing IT-related tasks, such as programming, SaaS application customizations, and other similar activities.

AI brings with it another whole new set of end-user tools that can be used by the non-IT community to automate processes, enhance productivity, and work with data.

This webinar discusses these realities from an IT perspective and provides various ideas on how to assure these activities are properly monitored, secured, and production ready.

Fish tanks? Does this sound strange or what? This is a phenomenon that we have all seen, and the higher level the manager, the worse it gets. People watch, listen and try to figure out the intentions of the managers above them.

For example, a senior manager sees you leaving the office at 6 p.m. one night and says to you, “Good to see you have been working so hard.” Then you try to figure out what she meant. What did she mean?