Nick Randolph is a friend of mine and an active member of the ACS. He took the time to respond to my recent post on the Australian Computer Society (it was also in response to this other post of mine). Since Nick didn’t post them on his blog (I wish you did Nick . . .) […]
Michael Still gives a review of a recent ACS meeting he attended in Canberra. He’s come closer than I have to joining the ACS so I found it to be an interesting read. At the moment I am trying to decide whether joining the ACS does anything for me. That sounds kinda selfish but its […]
The subject of IT Accreditation and Process Improvement has been on the agenda for some time in Australia and the discussion has been largely carried by the Australian Computer Society (history). The funny thing is that apart from a few press articles here and there the discussion hasn’t really entered the conciousness of most in […]
I spent this weekend in Adelaide at South Australia’s very own Code Camp. I presented on the first day but decided that I would hang around for the second day to see some more of the presenters give their talks. Overall I was impressed with the event and congratulations have to go to Peter Griffith […]
Back when I was doing the odd spot of enterprise systems management consulting ITIL was becoming all the rage in both corporate and government settings – in fact some of us were even considering becoming ITIL certified trainers. I actually ended up spending more time in development and never took the ITIL stuff anywhere – […]
Before I start, I need to point out that I am now a member of the ACS – after all that carry on in the past I decided to join and see what it was like. When I joined a whole heap of knowledge didn’t suddenly get sideloaded into my brain and a wealth of […]
Nick Randolph points us to the blog of the Australian Computer Society’s Professional Development Board. They have put up their first post which outlines the kind of material that they are going to be covering. I think that this is a really positive step for the ACS! My only advice to those posting is to […]
Grant Holliday has joined the conversation and links to a number of resources which I am going to spend some time digesting. Interestingly he zoomed right in on what I consider to be a central issue – ethics. I like to think that even though I’m not recognised by the ACS (or any organisation) as […]
I’d like to thank Philip Argy for taking the time to respond to my blog post about his session at Code Camp Oz just passed. Just to summarise Philip’s key points: ACP told ACS they would never be admitted as an official professionl unless an entry threshold was set. ACS believes the benefits of being recognised as […]
One of the non-technical sessions that we had at Code Camp Oz this year was a session by Phil Argy who is the current president of the Australian Computer Society. I found that there was a lot to disagree with Phil about what he said (or atleast that was my gut reaction) and there was […]
