Are You Ready? Are your Children: Shift Happens

website@infoadvisors.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:05:43 GMT

Today I am presenting Collaborating with Techs at Toronto IRMAC. This presentation, which I've also given at DAMA Portland and the New York Enterprise Modeling User Group (NYEMUG), focuses mainly on collaborating with different generations of IT workers.

Our work environment today involves collaborating with four generations of workers. The gap between work- and lifestyles of our multi-generation teams can become a real issue with collaboration. One of the main issues is how the different generations prefer to communicate, including formats and locations.

A very popular YouTube video, orginally developed to influence teaching styles in a Colorado school system, touches on some of the same issues. Specifically, it highlights differences between today's youngest generation of students and workers. The video is 8 minutes long. While it includes music, you can watch it with your speakers muted as the sound is only background (for those of you who fill older generations and are concerned with the appearance of work).

I wish I had time in my presentation to include this video. Perhaps I'll find time to include it in my related Tutorial at the DAMA conference.

Karen Lopez: Musings on Data, Process, and Architecture

Are You Ready? Are your Children: Shift Happens