Category: Projects and Processes
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Long Distance Clinic Move in Villa Rica a Success
OIT finished a project recently that involved a last minute move of the Emory Heart and Vascular Center in Villa Rica, GA to a new office about a mile from the original site. Contacted on March 6, the team had to complete the move in only three weeks. This is normally a three-month project. The…
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The Power of Introverts
Being an introvert should not be a problem in our society, yet it is. According to author Susan Cain, schools and workplaces are designed for extroverts and corporate America often doesn’t allow introverts to be introverted. Cain wrote a book called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, in which she suggests…
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UTS Messaging Team Offers Valuable Exchange Briefings
The UTS Messaging Team recently began a series of Exchange Briefings, open to all members of the Emory IT community, for the purpose of offering two key elements: 1) training for various Exchange-related elements, such as Lync installation and management, and 2) hot topics within the Exchange community. Coordinated by Jymbellyn Carthon (Infrastructure), the briefings…
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Docendo Discimus
Docendo discimus [1] While we teach, we learn. Project managers in the PMO, along with other UTS staff, actively participate in the MentorEmory program at every opportunity. It is a time commitment to help someone else see his or her own gifts and thus, time well spent. Mentors teach, but they also learn. Either by…
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The Beauty of Data Visualization
One of my favorite things about my series of Wade’s Favorite Ted Talks are the unique ways educators and scientists view a problem and the interesting ways they approach a solution. David McCandless, who describes himself as an “author, data journalist and information designer,” delivers this compelling TedTalk about data mining and ways to visualize…
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How I Fell In Love With a Fish
What, exactly, is sustainability? The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that, “Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.” Productive harmony…pass me my tie-dyed shirt, Ringo. We hear a lot about sustainability at…
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Test-driven Development
If you search Wikipedia for a list of software development philosophies, you will literally find over a hundred styles to choose from. This high number suggests that there is no standard way of developing software and that a successful enterprise must find the methods that best benefit its environment. Our team in Integration has recently…