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41 days ago
After 5 years of being a loyal Windows Mobile user I have finally surrendered to the pressure and gone and bought an iPhone. It’s a good phone and many would argue that WM is just as good with the HTC Touch HD having a bigger screen yadda yadda yadda. What I discovered was it wasn’t about the phone. In the end the reason I moved was the applications. You can get just about anything on the iPhone from the AppStore and not just games (I’m not a game player) but useful stuff! Most free, and some for just a couple of dollars. It’s easy to use, it works and its useful. So I got to thinking about Sharepoint. Out of the box it quite useful but left to your IT department to implement will leave you with about 10% (not a real stat) of its usefulness. The business apps that you can easily implement on top of the platform are where Sharepoint really comes into its own. Not that hard to write either. So what about a Sharepoint ...
190 days ago
Utilisation Rates Utilisation is the Percentage of Billable Time that is billed to a client. There are generally two ways to calculate this number, gross utilisation and net utilisation: · Gross utilisation is billed hours over total possible billable hours over a given period. For example, in the course of a month there may be twenty (20) workdays leading to 160 potential hours. If the consultant bills 120 hours over that period, then the gross utilization is 75%. · Net utilisation subtracts public holidays, vacation and sick time from the possible billable hours, for example if a consultant took a week of vacation, totalling 40 hours, then the net utilization would be 100%; 120 billed hours divided by 120 possible billable hours. Calculated under either method, this number is important to overall revenue and profitability of the organisation. With higher utilisation there are higher revenues and gross ...
232 days ago
I recently attended an all weekend event called CodeCampOz. Essentially this is a weekend in Wagga Wagga where IT geeks get together to share knowledge around software development. Readify was one of the major sponsors for the event this year putting some of our limited discretionary spend into a community event – why? Well to be completely honest because one of our guys Mitch Denny (the main organiser and facilitator) was prepared to put his own money in to ensure it ran. Clearly that sort of passion should not go unrewarded so we jumped in. This typifies the type of commitment to our industry that is unfortunately very rare and I have huge respect for this type of behaviour and also for the guys presenting at the event. Capital ‘P’ Professionalism. Anyway I was invited to take part in a panel discussion specifically targeting recession survival for Application Developers and Software Development organisations. In the hour we had we didn’t get to the end of ...
442 days ago
Leadership is a subject that always interests me. You can’t buy it and I don’t think it’s easy to build in someone either however the basic traits of leadership live inside many people and sometimes it’s just a matter of learning how to unlock it. At Readify we have become pretty good at recognising people that have leadership traits and we hire almost exclusively people that have those traits. Many of them don’t even know it themselves when they join us. I don’t undervalue how hard it is to recognise these traits however I reckon the real trick is to figure out how to unlock leadership in your people. Of course there is no silver bullet but as an organisation you can do it – it does however take time and it does mean you have to invest. It costs us PLENTY in time and dollars, and we wouldn’t do it if the returns were not plenty as well - but don’t expect the returns to just arrive in wads of cash. The type of leadership I like to see ...
551 days ago
I was at Re-mix today and there was a buzz around about David Burela and his incredible team’s entry into the Imagine Cup for Australia. Insiders were telling me he was a shoe-in, others were telling me it was in the bag for David. After all, the project has the endorsement and approval of the leader of the National Party (for Australia) and the head of the Farmer’s Federation of Victoria. David actually got to demo the product at the lunch session for Remix and captivated the attention of the complete room for the time he was talking about it. We all know that the ‘fat lady has to sing’ and at the time I left she wasn’t singing, but she was warming up. The upshot was – by unanimous decision – Readify’s David Burela and his team are the AUSTRALIA WINNERS OF THE IMAGINE CUP AND ARE ON THERE WAY TO PARIS! Multiple people at Microsoft believe that David’s team didn’t just do a “university project” but came up ...
