Author Biff Mitchell is active a challenge for all associates of the advice technology (IT) industry to abide their a lot of antic plan adventures and accept them appear in a book about the applesauce of the industry, NotAPixelOfSanity.
-- Author Biff Mitchell is active a challenge for all associates of the advice technology (IT) industry to abide their a lot of antic plan adventures and accept them appear in a book about the applesauce of the industry, NotAPixelOfSanity.
“The aberration of the IT industry can be so acute as to be hurtful,” said Biff Mitchell, columnist of Team Player (Double Dragon Publishing, ISBN: 1-55404-314-X), a banter on the advice technology (IT) industry. “I’ve apparent it drive humans nuts, accident families, collection dreams, and about-face contrarily able humans into idiots. There are millions of belief about adventuresome projects, brainless administration decisions, and situations that don’t fit into even the a lot of across-the-board analogue of a sane world. I ambition to put as abounding of them calm as I can in NotAPixelOfSanity.”
“I’m active the challenge through the accumulated web website for ErectSoft INC,” said Mitchell. “In Team Player, ErectSoft INC is the better custom software aggregation in the world, but it’s never in actuality produced a individual product, or accomplished any activity that it’s anytime started. Nothing anytime gets accomplished the antecedent activity analogue and activity planning stages.”
“This isn’t far off from the absolute world,” said Mitchell. “I apperceive about a dozen above advisers of the aboriginal big IT aggregation in the across area I live. They were all thoroughly trained, met consistently with the clients, produced bags of pages of activity specifications, needs analyses, and added documentation, but afterwards about three years, not a individual activity had in actuality been started, and not one of the advisers had a adventitious to administer the training they’d accustomed if they aboriginal started their jobs.”
According to Mitchell, companies like this blossomed throughout the IT industry above-mentioned to the Dot Com Bust. “I anticipate the Bust was nature’s way of charwoman out the chaff,” said Mitchell. “But it didn’t apple-pie out the absurdity. I’ve been handed Gantt archive that showed me three weeks abaft agenda afore the activity even started. I bethink a chief administrator who was told he would be answer to a VP position Friday afternoon and was laid off Monday morning. I summed up the attributes of my job as an advisory artist already by saying: I’m about bent up to area I was this morning.”
The home page for the ErectSoft INC web website (www.erectsofinc.com) is like a lot of added accumulated web sites … until the company realizes that none of the advice beneath the headings for Our Products, Partners, and Media Release makes any sense. The About Us area starts off with the aforementioned absurd accumulated drivel and again lets the cat out of the bag by apropos the company to Mitchell’s novel. “The artefact descriptions are taken exact from Team Player,” said Mitchell. “And they’re not abundant altered than the diction you’ll see on a lot of accumulated web sites, abnormally for consulting companies.”
One of the card bedfast at the top of the awning reads Absurd Contest. It opens a page with a silver-toned affair for the awning art for NotAPixelOfSanity, based on the awning art for Team Player by Brock Parks. “The challenge is accessible to anyone even accidentally affiliated to the IT industry,” said Mitchell. “That includes a lot of professions, such as programmers, clear artists, interface designers, advisory designers, activity managers, above specialists, sales and business clones, HR managers, media specialists, affidavit writers, abstruse writers, arrangement architects, abstruse consultants, tech abutment staff, courseware authors, and ability engineers. And this account is just abrading the surface.”
The challenge is chargeless to access and humans can access as abounding belief as they want. “I’m traveling to cover every access I receive,” said Mitchell. “But there may be some absolutely accidental beat changes.”
“I’ve listed a few categories on the site,” said Mitchell. “Things like air-conditioned projects and products, air-conditioned administration decisions and development processes, and a few others … but none of the entries I’ve accustomed so far fits into any of these categories, so I’ve had to actualize new ones. I accept a activity there may be as abounding categories as there are stories.”
There will be ten prizes, awarded to the ten a lot of air-conditioned stories, of an autographed archetype of Team Player. “All those whose belief are appear will accept a chargeless archetype of the accomplished ebook adaptation of NotAPixelOfSanity.”
Contest data are acquaint at http://www.erectsoftinc.com/Contest.html. In befitting with the occasion, no borderline for entries has been determined. Team Player is accessible in ebook architecture from Amazon.com and Fictionwise.com.
Biff Mitchell is the columnist Heavy Load (Fictionwise), the world’s aboriginal laundromance, The War Bug (Double Dragon Publishing), a cyberthrillersatire set on the Internet 200 years in the future, and the ebook novellas Smoke Break and The Baton (Echelon Press). His eMarketing Tools for Writers has not yet revolutionized online business for writers. Mitchell runs a fiction autograph branch through the UNB Department of Extended Learning and will be teaching a branch on Science Fiction, CyberPunk and ePublishing at the 2006 Maritime Writer’s Workshop.
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