Office Ultimate 2007 24 Hours in the Life of IT Pr

March 17 Office Ultimate 2007, 2008
By Eric Spiegel


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If you've ever watched the hit TV series “24” on Fox you may understand the direction I’m going in with this article. If not, let me clue you in. The show follows the events of some dastardly terrorist attack and the intrepid federal agent Jack Bauer’s attempt to foil the bad guys. But these events always track within a 24 hour period and neatly wrap up in the final hour of that day.
IT professionals only wish they could nicely wrap up all their project work and the fires they must extinguish within a 24-hour period. As in “24 Buy Windows 7,” technology can greatly enhance our ability to resolve difficult tasks quickly. However Genuine Office 2010, technology can also wreak havoc because of security intrusions Office 2010, viruses, poorly trained personnel and overworked, tired IT workers trying to accomplish too much in too little time.
Despite all this technology at your finger tips, do you ever feel like there are simply not enough hours in the day to get to even half of the tasks on your daily to-do list? Well, join the club. Today’s IT worker is truly stretched to squeeze every valuable minute out of every hour that races by each day. With short-handed technical staffs working in a global environment Office Professional Plus, the stress levels of IT workers are being pushed to extremes.
I thought the best way to illustrate this was to walk through a typical day of an IT manager. This may or may not resonate with other IT professionals, but hopefully it will illustrate how 24 hours can rocket past anyone working in IT.
05:30 – Dragged to consciousness by alarm clock. Pulled out of wonderful dream where Vista desktop upgrade went without a hitch. Back to reality and off to the office.
06:00 – Check the Blackberry while waiting for the traffic report to see if any system status alerts went out overnight and if the offshore development team in an opposite time zone has sent in their deliverables. Good news: no traffic issues. Bad news: a slew of system alerts and no deliverables in the inbox. Smart IT Columns Dealing with Idiot Vendors
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