Survey of IT managers

DOCTORAL STUDENT DISSERTATION SURVEY 

link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DMADDOX_dissertation

Dierdra MaddoxProgram Manager at Verizon Business

Desired participants:

• employed in the IT project manager field as a project managers, program managers, quality managers, portfolio managers, product managers, functional managers, operation managers, project leaders, project directors, and other distinct IT management
• 25 years of age or older
• worked in IT management for 3 years or more
• a United States resident?

My name is Dierdra Maddox. I am a doctoral student at Capella University. I am currently in the dissertation phase. My focus is IT project management. The purpose of my study is to understand the underrepresentation of women in IT Project Management by comparing motivation, socialization, experience, attitude, and

School-to-Career Program in New York

from the Washington Post:

New York launches school-to-career program

By Michael Gormley, Published: November 3

ALBANY, N.Y. — The first statewide program in the nation using an innovative school-to-career program to link students with companies in search of specific job skills is set to begin in New York.
More than 6,000 New York students are expected to join the program, which teaches high school students additional workplace skills with the help of mentors and visits to participating companies. That program will mesh with two-year college degrees tailored to companies’ needs.

IBM executive Stanley Litow said that once the students graduate, they will be “first in line” for jobs at companies such as IBM. He said that many of the hires will start at $35,000 to $40,000 a year in a career that will grow.

Ditching Work/Life Balance

from the SFGate Tech Chronicles:

Techies advocate ditching work/life balance

Posted on November 1, 2013 | By nbowles@sfchronicle.com (Nellie Bowles)

Nick Floyd at Future Stack conference
Friday, Oct. 25. Source: Raphael Kluzniok / SF Chron.

At a recent software programmers conference at the San Francisco Grand Hyatt,  one senior engineer, Nick Floyd, stood up to give a talk on the work/life balance.
Ditch it, he said.

The idea of work and life being separate is outdated and impractical, he claimed. Instead, Floyd proposed something new: Nerd Life Balance, in which work and non-work hours are no longer divided.



“What if we made work and life more like Velcro and less like sandpaper?” he said as his audience of programmers responded by nodding and clapping. “What if I could bring my nerd side home?”

Programmers — who are known to sleep under their desks, wear pajamas all day, and code for 16 hours straight without standing up — have long been pushing against workplace mores. Traditional labor unions have worked to strengthen the work/life divide, fighting for such separations as weekends and 8-hour workdays. Tech executives, who pay their employees partly in perks like haircuts, gym equipment and snacks, have built cultures that blur that divide. Programmers are encouraged to stay all night for “hackathons” and many offices have nap rooms.

Under his Nerd Life Balance philosophy, Floyd doesn’t try to fight this new blend of office and home but argues that programmers can still start families (teach your kids to code) and live normal lives (think of exercise as a pleasure as great as coding).

Chris Kelly, director of developer relations for software company New Relic, agreed that the traditional work/life divide is an antiquated vision.