Newsletters ✅ Open Source Solutions for Test Automation We get so caught up sometimes delivering new features that quality starts to slip. I’ve been there – in the race to deliver, ripping up the back yard, testing feels like your Mum yelling ‘slow down’ out the kitchen window. Test automation provides a middle path, automating much of the quality checking bit, and freeing you up […] Written by Olivia Morgan November 4, 2022November 4, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Maximum Speed With Microservices ✈️ When I was a radar engineer with the RAAF in the early 90’s, I marvelled at a thing they called PAR (or Precision Approach Radar). It was unique because it allowed an air traffic controller to get an aircraft down in really bad weather, within a few inches of the runway centreline. The only visuals […] Written by Olivia Morgan October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Personalised Employee Learning Have you ever had to roll out a new system and not had the training material ready? Good training material takes time, particularly if you need to cut it from scratch. Well life on the e-learning plains is getting easier. The new kids on the block in the e-learning space are Learning Pathways and Viva […] Written by Olivia Morgan October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Hassle Free Data Migration 📂↗️☁️ Whilst working at a Water Corporation a while back, I had to migrate 250k records from Records Manager to Content Manager 9. The documents themselves were straightforward, but the transformations of the related metadata were extreme (including nested lists). I used Power Query for this and although good for understanding data quality, it was very manual […] Written by Olivia Morgan October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Switching on your digital employees A while back, I was working with a client that was implementing TechOne OneCouncil. The best part was the employee dashboard – a simple and straight forward launchpad for keeping on top of your work. It had one major limitation though in that it was really inward looking – great for TechOne apps, but not so […] Written by Olivia Morgan October 8, 2022October 8, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Using AI to classify records and entering the workplace metaverse If we could only get people to classify their records properly? You can hear this cry from Information Managers across the state. We love to create, but us humans aren’t so good at classifying things. Our interpretations, cultures and biases result in wild variation. It’s a tough job to be an Information Manager squeezed between […] Written by Olivia Morgan September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Hubble trouble and getting smarter I’ve always loved all aspects of flying and the stories around it. I joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a radar engineer in my early twenties after doin’ my time at uni. I learned to fly and by a stroke of good luck obtained my recreational pilot licence a few years ago. But it […] Written by Olivia Morgan September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Robots and IT What makes a good software engineer? Each day we see things, build things, and support things that suggest IT could be better. But why is it this way? Allan Kay in a recent campfire talk explores this very issue. If you don’t know of Allan, he is the inventor of the Dynabook. In Allan’s words “Steve Jobs was very […] Written by Olivia Morgan September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters Estimating Projects and More Estimating the effort required to successfully build a system can be tricky. Function point (FP) analysis can be a good place to start, especially if you have a rough idea of how users will interact with the system. Although it’s another gem from the 80’s, my experience suggests that it’s still relevant today. First step is to […] Written by Olivia Morgan August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Newsletters I’m no Teen Wolf… …but I get that Michael J Fox gets IT. Doc Hollywood was a great movie from the 80s. It reminds me that although things may not turn out as you intend, you sometimes end up in a better place. I was a bit of a Michael J Fox fan, hanging on the crazy stuff that he […] Written by Olivia Morgan August 26, 2022August 26, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI) for coding, writing, and more! My first brush with AI was in my final year at Uni. The cool kids had snatched all of the interesting thesis topics. My friend Paul was capturing 3D data from a 2D image, similar to this – very cool. I approached one of my computer science lecturers and he said, “read this, and base […] Written by Olivia Morgan December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
🔍 Identify Threats Early With Azure Monitor When I was learning to fly, monitoring was a big deal. Looking out for traffic, making sure engine temperature and pressure remained in the green zone, adjusting angle of attack, tweaking airspeed, checking radio frequencies, watching the little ball on the yaw indicator. These constant checks ensured safe, smooth and efficient flight. The same goes for IT systems […] Written by Olivia Morgan December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI) for coding, writing, and more! My first brush with AI was in my final year at Uni. The cool kids had snatched all of the interesting thesis topics. My friend Paul was capturing 3D data from a 2D image, similar to this – very cool. I approached one of my computer science lecturers and he said, “read this, and base […] Written by Olivia Morgan December 8, 2022December 8, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
🔍 Identify Threats Early With Azure Monitor When I was learning to fly, monitoring was a big deal. Looking out for traffic, making sure engine temperature and pressure remained in the green zone, adjusting angle of attack, tweaking airspeed, checking radio frequencies, watching the little ball on the yaw indicator. These constant checks ensured safe, smooth and efficient flight. The same goes for IT systems […] Written by Olivia Morgan December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Building Strong IT Relationships Strong and enduring relationships are important but often get overlooked in IT. Strong relationships are built upon shared commitment and trust. Without these, awesome ideas die on the vine. I am sure you’ve seen this before. Forming long term relationships with IT providers can be difficult too, particularly in our world of probity and procurement […] Written by Olivia Morgan November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Scheduling A Security Checkup 🩺 Effective security is a priority for many organisations, but its implementation can be obstructed by uncertainty and a lack of reliable resources. As reported data breaches from malicious attacks are increasing, security is becoming a priority for many – but it can be difficult to know where to begin when protecting your organisation, employees, and […] Written by Olivia Morgan March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
It’s bigger on the inside… Building a customer portal can be tricky. In the heat of the dot com bubble, I was a consultant working on the telstra.com team – Telstra’s first shot at a one-stop-shop for customers. I was working for Accenture at the time as a Manager in the UAT team. It was a goliath of a project, […] Written by Olivia Morgan February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Low Cost eLearning 📝 Learning in my uni years was fun and not because of the lecturers or the material, but more so of the antics we got up to. Engineers with too much idle time and all that. In an auditorium full of people, a group from up the back launched a massive paper plane (I reckon 5ft […] Written by Olivia Morgan February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Future is Calling ☎️ Do you remember the grungy dens that were public payphones? Before the days of mobile phones, I’d have to push my way past McDonalds wrappers so I could call Mum to let her know I was going to be late for dinner. My uni friends talked of all sorts of scams to get free phone […] Written by Olivia Morgan January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked