Saturday, December 27, 2008
I almost think it's worthy!!!
12Our approved/proposed system is to make an error free payroll system as an alternative for Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA) old system which is manually inputted in MS Excel. We can say that it’s not that hard to make it nor also easy to implement the system that we are going to make. I can only say that if this project will be done correctly and accordingly I think it’s a big contribution to my experience and learning because our group works hard on this project. Also it’s better to start with a simple proposed project rather than making some super hard ones because we’re not that professionals that can settled down systems in a short time, our mind are still growing and we need more experience and our time to comply is limited only for several months. I think it’s worthy…
Thursday, December 4, 2008
What are the two most frequently experienced causes of frustration in IS professionals and users while working on an IS plan?
I can’t find the exact answer to the questions but I guess I will have my own opinion regarding these major causes of frustration in Information System professionals and users while working on IS plan. The first thing that coming to my mind is that one of the problems is the user and the developer doesn’t communicate well or understand each other well. The main reason I guess is that usually the user doesn’t have any specific background regarding making an IS plan or worst the user don’t really know what and IS plan all about. If this will occur at most cases the developer will have to explain all in a sudden about the plan and they will end up arguing to each other because of the conflicts of ideas…mostly if the developer will be assigned or handle the things it will have bigger chance of being a bossy and to oblige violations and user will oppose for that manner…and it is frustrating to see that projects will have to be delayed because of this issue…so I will have to suggest that in making an IS plan with a user the user should some basic responsibilities. Not just taking up a project without any background…I suggest that user should know his responsibilities like Learn basic computer skills in order to understand the basic of IS plan. Learn standard techniques and procedures for using application, the user must know how to use a certain applications how to deal with it. The user should know the basic of security, how to deal with password protections. He should know how to back up files for certain emergency needs. Use computer resource according organization policies. Install authorized software with license or an out-source softwares. He should also know how to apply software patches and fixes. Actively participate in defining the requirements for new systems especially the one on the IS plan. Avoid reporting trivial problems because if not it will cause frustration to the developer.
According to an article that I’ve read regarding conflicts between IS professionals and user is the lack of priorities among the subjects of moral obligations. Obligation to one party may collide with obligation to another party. Protecting one’s employer’s interests may harm the public; protecting a colleague’s interests may contradict obligations to one’s employer; etc.
For example, consider this scenario. A programmer working for a consulting firm is involved in a large project for a client. The programmer comes to realize that some of the code she is developing will not be compatible with other systems employed by the client. When she brings the new facts to the employer, he demands that she follow his instructions. Her responsibility to the employer is to obey the instructions. However, her obligation to the client is to inform him about the incompatibility. The programmer is faced with an ethical dilemma to which there is no solution in any of the above ethical codes. The codes require that the member not divulge confidential information of the client. Now, let’s assume that in the course of the member’s work, the member received information of acts committed by the client, or the employer, that could harm the public. Should the member abide by the rule? Should he or she be “more ethical” toward the public, or toward the employer or client? These questions are some of the very confusing and frustrating to answer. A conflict should not always be resolved in favor of the same constituent. Each case should be carefully examined by the individual before making a decision, and the responsibility of judgment should rest with the individual. Still, a code of ethics should try to help make the judgment.
According also to the article that I have read there are lot of attitudes that can cause frustration between the relationships of IS professionals and users. According to their test they examined how IS-staffs and users feel to each other. The first one is the negative attitude of both parties regarding agreeing and disagreeing although it is an individual problems. Next is the feeling of being threatened. The findings suggested that the more common explanations of the reasons behind user-IS problems may need to be reinterpreted. Communication gaps, personality clashes, or misalignment of goals may be superficial manifestations of an underlying power of relationship rather than causes of the problem. If their unequal access to power is a common cause of user - IS problems, attempts to identify solutions will have little effect on the basic relationship unless the balance of power between the groups is somehow altered. I found out that the only if users were able to exert influence in the systems development process was participation effective in reducing conflict.
To avoid this conflicts that causes frustration between IS professionals and user, they should know their own capability before making the entire plan…they should question their own selves if they can handle it together. The IS-professionals and users should have formal relationships to each other; there should be policies that give one group the ability to command actions during the development of the plan. If the user don’t know or doesn’t understand about the system the IS professional has a responsibility to share and to give the scope of the system and to explain it further. Typically, practical solutions to this problem have focused on specific problems in specific contexts and have ignored the group relationship itself. IS professionals especially, have tended to look at good individual and project relations, and then wondered why user’s attitudes were still so negative. I suggest that if the problem of poor user - IS relationships to be adequately addressed , it must be treated as a problem between organizational groups, since this relationship affects all other contexts in which users and IS people interact. In this solution problems may easily be fix because they will meet the problem as a whole not individually.
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The User/Information Systems Relationship: A Study in Power and Attitudes.pdf
Ethical Standards for IS professionals.pdf
According to an article that I’ve read regarding conflicts between IS professionals and user is the lack of priorities among the subjects of moral obligations. Obligation to one party may collide with obligation to another party. Protecting one’s employer’s interests may harm the public; protecting a colleague’s interests may contradict obligations to one’s employer; etc.
For example, consider this scenario. A programmer working for a consulting firm is involved in a large project for a client. The programmer comes to realize that some of the code she is developing will not be compatible with other systems employed by the client. When she brings the new facts to the employer, he demands that she follow his instructions. Her responsibility to the employer is to obey the instructions. However, her obligation to the client is to inform him about the incompatibility. The programmer is faced with an ethical dilemma to which there is no solution in any of the above ethical codes. The codes require that the member not divulge confidential information of the client. Now, let’s assume that in the course of the member’s work, the member received information of acts committed by the client, or the employer, that could harm the public. Should the member abide by the rule? Should he or she be “more ethical” toward the public, or toward the employer or client? These questions are some of the very confusing and frustrating to answer. A conflict should not always be resolved in favor of the same constituent. Each case should be carefully examined by the individual before making a decision, and the responsibility of judgment should rest with the individual. Still, a code of ethics should try to help make the judgment.
According also to the article that I have read there are lot of attitudes that can cause frustration between the relationships of IS professionals and users. According to their test they examined how IS-staffs and users feel to each other. The first one is the negative attitude of both parties regarding agreeing and disagreeing although it is an individual problems. Next is the feeling of being threatened. The findings suggested that the more common explanations of the reasons behind user-IS problems may need to be reinterpreted. Communication gaps, personality clashes, or misalignment of goals may be superficial manifestations of an underlying power of relationship rather than causes of the problem. If their unequal access to power is a common cause of user - IS problems, attempts to identify solutions will have little effect on the basic relationship unless the balance of power between the groups is somehow altered. I found out that the only if users were able to exert influence in the systems development process was participation effective in reducing conflict.
To avoid this conflicts that causes frustration between IS professionals and user, they should know their own capability before making the entire plan…they should question their own selves if they can handle it together. The IS-professionals and users should have formal relationships to each other; there should be policies that give one group the ability to command actions during the development of the plan. If the user don’t know or doesn’t understand about the system the IS professional has a responsibility to share and to give the scope of the system and to explain it further. Typically, practical solutions to this problem have focused on specific problems in specific contexts and have ignored the group relationship itself. IS professionals especially, have tended to look at good individual and project relations, and then wondered why user’s attitudes were still so negative. I suggest that if the problem of poor user - IS relationships to be adequately addressed , it must be treated as a problem between organizational groups, since this relationship affects all other contexts in which users and IS people interact. In this solution problems may easily be fix because they will meet the problem as a whole not individually.
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The User/Information Systems Relationship: A Study in Power and Attitudes.pdf
Ethical Standards for IS professionals.pdf
What should be the nature of the relationship between the business plan and the IS plan?
To understand further the nature of the relationship between the business plan and information system plan lets just define each one of them to know their functions and to relate them
A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals.
The business goals being attempted may be for-profit or non-profit. For-profit business plans typically focus on financial goals. Non-profit and government agency business plans tend to focus on service goals, although non-profits may also focus on maximizing profit. Business plans may also target changes in perception and branding by the customer, client, tax-payer, or larger community. A business plan having changes in perception and branding as its primary goals is called a marketing plan.
Business plans may be internally or externally focused. Externally focused plans target goals that are important to external stakeholders, particularly financial stakeholders. They typically have detailed information about the organization or team attempting to reach the goals. With for-profit entities, external stakeholders include investors and customers. External stake-holders of non-profits include donors and the clients of the non-profit's services. For government agencies, external stakeholders include tax-payers, higher-level government agencies, and international lending bodies such as the IMF, the World Bank, various economic agencies of the UN, and development banks.
Internally focused business plans target intermediate goals required to reach the external goals. They may cover the development of a new product, a new service, a new IT system, a restructuring of finance, the refurbishing of a factory or a restructuring of the organization. An internal business plan is often developed in conjunction with a balanced scorecard or a list of critical success factors. This allows success of the plan to be measured using non-financial measures. Business plans that identify and target internal goals, but provide only general guidance on how they will be met are called strategic plans.
An information system plan (ISP) is also a formal statement but as of a set of the systems goal, in other words it is a plan that determines the sequence for implementing specific information systems. The goal of the strategy is to have more beneficiary features to the user or to a company.
Once deployed, the information systems department can implement the plan with confidence that they are doing the correct information systems project at the right time and in the right sequence.
The focus of the ISP is not one information system but the entire suite of information systems for the enterprise. Once developed, each identified information system is seen in context with all other information systems within the enterprise.
There are a lot of steps involved to consider in following or making an ISP. You should follow it in order to avoid further distractions and confusions.
If the pundits are to be believed, that is, that the right information at the right time is the competitive edge, then paying for an information systems plan that is accurate, repeatable, and reliable is a small price indeed! The price however, for traditionally accomplished ISPs is not small. A fair sized IBM’s Business, Business Systems Plan (BSP), or a James Martin’s System’s Data Planning (SDP) or Finkelstein’s Strategic Management Planning n (SMP) can take up to 40,000 staff hours ($4,000,000). Traditional ISPs are also inaccurate, can't afford to be repeated, and are out of date well before they are completed. Most ISPs, done the expensive and traditional way are never completed!
Now we already understand the meaning of each plan we can now tell the nature of relationship between BP and ISP. For a short recall business plan is composed of the company’s plan including its goal that should be for-profit or not-profit.
Today, enterprise database is deployed on distributed, heterogeneous hardware and systems software environments. The hardware platforms are both multiple-vendor and multi-tiered, with different architectures. In short, most businesses have embraced some form of downsizing, decentralization, and distributed processing. In order to attain such needs business plan should be merging to information system plan to develop a project that will affect the business survival. ISP will fetch the BP problems and conduct it. We can call it Business Information Systems the exact and complete details about the information needed about the systems and the business itself.
Business information systems change at a rate different from database objects or business missions. It is because of these different rates that each column is independent from each other. The goal is to encapsulate the internal designs of columns and to insulate them from the effects of design changes to other columns. Because of encapsulation, only when the business organizations change to the extent that they need additional or different business functions are business functions impacted. The most common changes are those that cause business functions to be either transferred from or into different business organizations. Those changes seldom ever impact business information systems. The only business organization changes that impact business information systems are those that typically occur after there has been a business mission change. Finally, database objects change only when missions change.
There are a lot of things that we will consider such as enterprises do not have models of information systems development that allow system designers to see the benefits of rearranging an information systems development schedule. In making an IS plan there are five major questions that cannot be answer:
1. What effect will there be on the overall schedule if an information system is purchased versus developed?
2. At what point does it pay to hire an abnormal quantity of contract staff to advance a schedule?
3. What is the long term benefit from 4GL versus 3GL?
4. Is it better to generate 3GL than to generate/use a 4GL?
5. What are the real costs of distributed software development over centralized development?
If these questions were transformed and applied to any other component of a business (e.g., accounting, manufacturing, distribution and marketing), and remained unanswered, that unit's manager would surely be fired!
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www.wikipedia.com
Whitemarsh - Information Systems Plan Book.pdf
A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals.
The business goals being attempted may be for-profit or non-profit. For-profit business plans typically focus on financial goals. Non-profit and government agency business plans tend to focus on service goals, although non-profits may also focus on maximizing profit. Business plans may also target changes in perception and branding by the customer, client, tax-payer, or larger community. A business plan having changes in perception and branding as its primary goals is called a marketing plan.
Business plans may be internally or externally focused. Externally focused plans target goals that are important to external stakeholders, particularly financial stakeholders. They typically have detailed information about the organization or team attempting to reach the goals. With for-profit entities, external stakeholders include investors and customers. External stake-holders of non-profits include donors and the clients of the non-profit's services. For government agencies, external stakeholders include tax-payers, higher-level government agencies, and international lending bodies such as the IMF, the World Bank, various economic agencies of the UN, and development banks.
Internally focused business plans target intermediate goals required to reach the external goals. They may cover the development of a new product, a new service, a new IT system, a restructuring of finance, the refurbishing of a factory or a restructuring of the organization. An internal business plan is often developed in conjunction with a balanced scorecard or a list of critical success factors. This allows success of the plan to be measured using non-financial measures. Business plans that identify and target internal goals, but provide only general guidance on how they will be met are called strategic plans.
An information system plan (ISP) is also a formal statement but as of a set of the systems goal, in other words it is a plan that determines the sequence for implementing specific information systems. The goal of the strategy is to have more beneficiary features to the user or to a company.
Once deployed, the information systems department can implement the plan with confidence that they are doing the correct information systems project at the right time and in the right sequence.
The focus of the ISP is not one information system but the entire suite of information systems for the enterprise. Once developed, each identified information system is seen in context with all other information systems within the enterprise.
There are a lot of steps involved to consider in following or making an ISP. You should follow it in order to avoid further distractions and confusions.
If the pundits are to be believed, that is, that the right information at the right time is the competitive edge, then paying for an information systems plan that is accurate, repeatable, and reliable is a small price indeed! The price however, for traditionally accomplished ISPs is not small. A fair sized IBM’s Business, Business Systems Plan (BSP), or a James Martin’s System’s Data Planning (SDP) or Finkelstein’s Strategic Management Planning n (SMP) can take up to 40,000 staff hours ($4,000,000). Traditional ISPs are also inaccurate, can't afford to be repeated, and are out of date well before they are completed. Most ISPs, done the expensive and traditional way are never completed!
Now we already understand the meaning of each plan we can now tell the nature of relationship between BP and ISP. For a short recall business plan is composed of the company’s plan including its goal that should be for-profit or not-profit.
Today, enterprise database is deployed on distributed, heterogeneous hardware and systems software environments. The hardware platforms are both multiple-vendor and multi-tiered, with different architectures. In short, most businesses have embraced some form of downsizing, decentralization, and distributed processing. In order to attain such needs business plan should be merging to information system plan to develop a project that will affect the business survival. ISP will fetch the BP problems and conduct it. We can call it Business Information Systems the exact and complete details about the information needed about the systems and the business itself.
Business information systems change at a rate different from database objects or business missions. It is because of these different rates that each column is independent from each other. The goal is to encapsulate the internal designs of columns and to insulate them from the effects of design changes to other columns. Because of encapsulation, only when the business organizations change to the extent that they need additional or different business functions are business functions impacted. The most common changes are those that cause business functions to be either transferred from or into different business organizations. Those changes seldom ever impact business information systems. The only business organization changes that impact business information systems are those that typically occur after there has been a business mission change. Finally, database objects change only when missions change.
There are a lot of things that we will consider such as enterprises do not have models of information systems development that allow system designers to see the benefits of rearranging an information systems development schedule. In making an IS plan there are five major questions that cannot be answer:
1. What effect will there be on the overall schedule if an information system is purchased versus developed?
2. At what point does it pay to hire an abnormal quantity of contract staff to advance a schedule?
3. What is the long term benefit from 4GL versus 3GL?
4. Is it better to generate 3GL than to generate/use a 4GL?
5. What are the real costs of distributed software development over centralized development?
If these questions were transformed and applied to any other component of a business (e.g., accounting, manufacturing, distribution and marketing), and remained unanswered, that unit's manager would surely be fired!
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www.wikipedia.com
Whitemarsh - Information Systems Plan Book.pdf
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
IT professional
Think about yourself worthy to be called as IT professional, how do you see yourself 10 years from now, what are your strategies to get there?
Wow this assignment is a tough one, I will have to write down at least 3000 words… quite a hard one ^_^ Anyway I should be keep going… and I should have waste at most 500 words for my introduction. But as introduction I can’t even find the right words to say…
While reading this question, it made me think about my past life where I have to choose the right course for me. During my high school life I’m actually planning to be an engineer someday. In my previous test on entrance exams in different schools I filled up Electronics and Communication Engineer (ECE) as my primary course. The second in my list is to become a Computer Engineer, and lastly to become a teacher. As I recall I did not filled up an application that states that I was going to choose Information Technology (IT) as my course. Not until heard a rumor that IT infrastructure in the future is going strong and needs more IT professionals to manage the rising technology. And with that small flick of a rumor my goal of becoming an Electronics and Communication Engineer changes to become an Information Technology professional. That time I gathered information about IT though when I became one I never have a chance to know the true meaning of IT especially when I compare it to Computer Science (CS). When we have a freshmen orientation well I do not remember who our speaker is that time but he differentiates IT from CS. As what I have remembered he said that IT professional deals with the spreading and distributing of information of softwares and systems which CS made. As meet my new classmates, I ask them questions like why they have taken IT as their course and what their goals are. Many have answers that they have taken IT because it’s in demand, others says nothing special about their course, other response that they really don’t want the course but they have no choice while other wants to be a programmer. Although I can say that I’m more fortunate than some of my classmates because during my secondary level I have learned the basics of computers like turning it on and off, creating new folder as well as deleting it, even exploring the disk and other stuff, I learned to use MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel even using Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver like making my personal offline webpage. Well, not to boast but during my 3rd year and 4th year in high school I join a regional contest named STEP though I forgot the meaning of that the event I join in is a Webpage making contest using notepad, MS FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver sadly all I can get is a 3rd runner up… well too much for that… although I can see and say that I have more expertise than some of my classmates I ask myself the same question I have given to them during that time. I ask myself about these particular questions:
• What is the real reason why I choose this course?
The reason why I take up this course is that I really want to know more about technology. They said that technology is rising very fast that almost a month or three new inventions will introduced. To take a part of this world I don’t want to be passive to these things, I want new learning about this changing technology. And when I fully understand the flow of technology I really, really want to contribute to the world to make something unique, something irreplaceable softwares that will help the people on this planet. That’s why I taken up this course as my baseline in fulfilling my dreams. Right now I can’t say it’s accidental but it’s really a choice that I made and I will never regret it.
• What are the risks in taking up this course?
Every course have many risks, some have miss lead to other directions. The main risk that I’m afraid of when taking up this course is that the department contains terror teachers that are ready to give five point zero grade. Well that’s a hell of a risk… right now instead of graduating I extend one year but I learned my lessons… Being an IT there are lot of risk in the future, although IT students are in demand there are lot of students who lost their trail and end up being an taxi driver or a waitress… they end up like that because they don’t really now the true meaning of their course… in order to overcome those risks I should be ready to handle it and just understand the real meaning of an IT professional.
• What are my goals?
Our teacher said that if my goal is only to graduate from this course, I should have plan to failed… he said when you think about goal… it is something bigger something you have to achieve in order to succeed in this world. Right now my goal is to get the desire job I want and I should have many objectives to follow… it’s like a quest in game… you cannot complete it without following the right directions and instructions… you should read, listen and investigate in order to finish and proceed to the next level.
• What job do I want and get after finishing this course?
Actually at first, until now I really wonder what job I can have after graduating in this course. I ask my self can a have a stable job after this? Well as of now my part time job is fixing others PC like a technician or what so ever… implementing a illegal copies of OS and Softwares being paid by 500 pesos and above… Well is this the only price I could get after studying? I ask some of my classmates about the job they can get after graduating… many answers they will become a programmer someday but then I ask again my self and them… programmer of what? Well they certain have hard time thinking of the right answer… ^_^ few said they want to become a call center agent as a temporary job… some said they want to become a system analyst and other IT stuff… I ask my self again… actually I was planning to have a part time as an instructor to some school who needs IT professionals as their guide the reason is for that as time goes by while searching for the right job I can have my knowledge become further improve because when you teach you should study more to share more. As my dream is to become a Game System Analyst and Designer in order to create a game that mankind should always search for… I should have my stepping stone in teaching and sharing…
• How do I see my self ten years from now?
Actually I really don’t believe in predictions or guess regarding the future, because I believe that only God can see the future ahead. But I believe that everything that will happen today can affect the flow of the future, every actions and doings can affect the life of other… every mistakes can cause distraction to the future. And I believe that based on what I’m doing right now in making this assignment will make me a better person in the future… because it makes me think of the things that I forgot to think in present… it makes me answer the questions I forgot to answer and makes me realize that planning is really important to achieve your goal. As of now my dream is to become a Game System Analyst and Designer as what I mention earlier because I want to create a game that mankind should always search for whether a men, women, children and so on. In order to achieve this almost impossible goal well nothing’s impossible I should consider and do some of my parents teaching, to have these abilities:
o Patience – the capacity for waiting for something to come up. I should not make things especially decisions to be done rashly. I should wait for the right time and place to avoid certain mistakes.
o Peace of mind – in times of troubles and uncertainty I should think clearly in order to make things right. Just smile and think something precious, something important to have a peace of mind. If I have peace of mind I can easily understand the flow of my work and the essence of it.
o Courage – the quality of being brave, being brave to the less expected situations, to be brave in anything that will occur in my life, and I should have the courage to face the world especially my employer ^_^. To face all the challenges that the lord will give me.
o Dignity – I should have proper sense of pride and self-respect. I should know when to admit defeat and surrender. I should not have more pride or no pride at all… in any case I should satisfy myself in simple but great things.
o Humble – I should have modest and unassuming in attitude and behavior. I should not boast in what I’m doing or contribute in order for me to have a close relationship with my teammates and co-workers.
o Respect – I should have respect to others work, I should respect my teammates to have a good relationship and to be a good citizen also. I should respect my self by having a good diet and caring it… because it’s my foundation.
o Time management – I should always have my time scheduled. I should divide it properly that I can have a time for my family and myself.
o Inspired – I should be inspired on what I’m doing; I should see the benefits that will come up with my work to be inspired in finishing it. I should be inspired by my parents teaching and preaching form the very beginning, I should be inspired by some of the most successful persons who started from nothing, I should be inspired from the girl I love… ^_^
o Faith – I should believe to my self and everything around me, I should trust in my abilities for me to work well. I should have faith in God for he is the only one who can help and raise me when I’m dying form emptiness… I should believe in him that everything that happens to me has a purpose and will come up a great output and I will wait for that time 10 years from now…
I’m glad I have concerned parents who always remind me of the right things that I should do. They are the one who motivates me in pursuing my dreams in life. They are the one who keeps telling me about those good things I should consider in order for me to be a good successful IT professional. They are also the one who keeps reminding me about the bad things I should avoid and correct.
o Lack of self control – they always tell me that I have a short temper…in short a high blood since I was a kid… I always have an enemy to fight because of my attitude. I should always control my self to avoid further distraction ^_^. Also spending too much money is also lack of self control and I should avoid that.
o Waste of time – right now I could tell that I always waste my time doing stuff that doesn’t have any sense… I always submit my home works late, I always do my projects one or three days before deadlines that causes exhaustion. I should always do thing on time to avoid further delay.
o Self Abuse – by not managing my time properly I always end up making my projects over time 24 hours in two to three days which is not right… at the end of the project I end up exhausted and worst sick for three days… becoming a worthy IT professional is not all about work but including proper manage of health…
o Girls Temptations – they always remind me to give them diploma not a baby so I should focus on my studies. Anyway I have a girlfriend now an IT student also in the same school and my parents is sooo afraid… I always tell them that they should trust me for I know what the right things to do… but who knows? ^_^
Well I always have these things in my mind in order to succeed… and I should avoid and control it… anyway I can also tell that there are times that you can’t avoid it but instead you just have to correct it and control it in order to manage.
• What are my strategies to become a worthy IT professional?
My strategies are very simple… I should become a good person with a good heart to have more friends to lean on. I should follow what my heart lean on and think it right. I should be aware of what I’m doing. I should study more and research more to become aware of the changing technology. I should consider some good advises from concern people like my family, teachers and others. I should follow those good things listed above and avoid the bad ones. I should have my own strategic planning to help not just my self but everything that surrounds me. I should have goals and objectives to motivate me. Lastly I should believe in my self and pray to God that everything will be just fine ^_^.
Thank you for this assignment sir although its so mind boggling making out 3000 words, I have just recalled my past. I have answered those questions again and improve it, and still it amazes me the way I think about my course… I think everyone does about their own ideas… for me I think I can be a worthy IT professional someday and my baseline starts here…
Wow this assignment is a tough one, I will have to write down at least 3000 words… quite a hard one ^_^ Anyway I should be keep going… and I should have waste at most 500 words for my introduction. But as introduction I can’t even find the right words to say…
While reading this question, it made me think about my past life where I have to choose the right course for me. During my high school life I’m actually planning to be an engineer someday. In my previous test on entrance exams in different schools I filled up Electronics and Communication Engineer (ECE) as my primary course. The second in my list is to become a Computer Engineer, and lastly to become a teacher. As I recall I did not filled up an application that states that I was going to choose Information Technology (IT) as my course. Not until heard a rumor that IT infrastructure in the future is going strong and needs more IT professionals to manage the rising technology. And with that small flick of a rumor my goal of becoming an Electronics and Communication Engineer changes to become an Information Technology professional. That time I gathered information about IT though when I became one I never have a chance to know the true meaning of IT especially when I compare it to Computer Science (CS). When we have a freshmen orientation well I do not remember who our speaker is that time but he differentiates IT from CS. As what I have remembered he said that IT professional deals with the spreading and distributing of information of softwares and systems which CS made. As meet my new classmates, I ask them questions like why they have taken IT as their course and what their goals are. Many have answers that they have taken IT because it’s in demand, others says nothing special about their course, other response that they really don’t want the course but they have no choice while other wants to be a programmer. Although I can say that I’m more fortunate than some of my classmates because during my secondary level I have learned the basics of computers like turning it on and off, creating new folder as well as deleting it, even exploring the disk and other stuff, I learned to use MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel even using Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver like making my personal offline webpage. Well, not to boast but during my 3rd year and 4th year in high school I join a regional contest named STEP though I forgot the meaning of that the event I join in is a Webpage making contest using notepad, MS FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver sadly all I can get is a 3rd runner up… well too much for that… although I can see and say that I have more expertise than some of my classmates I ask myself the same question I have given to them during that time. I ask myself about these particular questions:
• What is the real reason why I choose this course?
The reason why I take up this course is that I really want to know more about technology. They said that technology is rising very fast that almost a month or three new inventions will introduced. To take a part of this world I don’t want to be passive to these things, I want new learning about this changing technology. And when I fully understand the flow of technology I really, really want to contribute to the world to make something unique, something irreplaceable softwares that will help the people on this planet. That’s why I taken up this course as my baseline in fulfilling my dreams. Right now I can’t say it’s accidental but it’s really a choice that I made and I will never regret it.
• What are the risks in taking up this course?
Every course have many risks, some have miss lead to other directions. The main risk that I’m afraid of when taking up this course is that the department contains terror teachers that are ready to give five point zero grade. Well that’s a hell of a risk… right now instead of graduating I extend one year but I learned my lessons… Being an IT there are lot of risk in the future, although IT students are in demand there are lot of students who lost their trail and end up being an taxi driver or a waitress… they end up like that because they don’t really now the true meaning of their course… in order to overcome those risks I should be ready to handle it and just understand the real meaning of an IT professional.
• What are my goals?
Our teacher said that if my goal is only to graduate from this course, I should have plan to failed… he said when you think about goal… it is something bigger something you have to achieve in order to succeed in this world. Right now my goal is to get the desire job I want and I should have many objectives to follow… it’s like a quest in game… you cannot complete it without following the right directions and instructions… you should read, listen and investigate in order to finish and proceed to the next level.
• What job do I want and get after finishing this course?
Actually at first, until now I really wonder what job I can have after graduating in this course. I ask my self can a have a stable job after this? Well as of now my part time job is fixing others PC like a technician or what so ever… implementing a illegal copies of OS and Softwares being paid by 500 pesos and above… Well is this the only price I could get after studying? I ask some of my classmates about the job they can get after graduating… many answers they will become a programmer someday but then I ask again my self and them… programmer of what? Well they certain have hard time thinking of the right answer… ^_^ few said they want to become a call center agent as a temporary job… some said they want to become a system analyst and other IT stuff… I ask my self again… actually I was planning to have a part time as an instructor to some school who needs IT professionals as their guide the reason is for that as time goes by while searching for the right job I can have my knowledge become further improve because when you teach you should study more to share more. As my dream is to become a Game System Analyst and Designer in order to create a game that mankind should always search for… I should have my stepping stone in teaching and sharing…
• How do I see my self ten years from now?
Actually I really don’t believe in predictions or guess regarding the future, because I believe that only God can see the future ahead. But I believe that everything that will happen today can affect the flow of the future, every actions and doings can affect the life of other… every mistakes can cause distraction to the future. And I believe that based on what I’m doing right now in making this assignment will make me a better person in the future… because it makes me think of the things that I forgot to think in present… it makes me answer the questions I forgot to answer and makes me realize that planning is really important to achieve your goal. As of now my dream is to become a Game System Analyst and Designer as what I mention earlier because I want to create a game that mankind should always search for whether a men, women, children and so on. In order to achieve this almost impossible goal well nothing’s impossible I should consider and do some of my parents teaching, to have these abilities:
o Patience – the capacity for waiting for something to come up. I should not make things especially decisions to be done rashly. I should wait for the right time and place to avoid certain mistakes.
o Peace of mind – in times of troubles and uncertainty I should think clearly in order to make things right. Just smile and think something precious, something important to have a peace of mind. If I have peace of mind I can easily understand the flow of my work and the essence of it.
o Courage – the quality of being brave, being brave to the less expected situations, to be brave in anything that will occur in my life, and I should have the courage to face the world especially my employer ^_^. To face all the challenges that the lord will give me.
o Dignity – I should have proper sense of pride and self-respect. I should know when to admit defeat and surrender. I should not have more pride or no pride at all… in any case I should satisfy myself in simple but great things.
o Humble – I should have modest and unassuming in attitude and behavior. I should not boast in what I’m doing or contribute in order for me to have a close relationship with my teammates and co-workers.
o Respect – I should have respect to others work, I should respect my teammates to have a good relationship and to be a good citizen also. I should respect my self by having a good diet and caring it… because it’s my foundation.
o Time management – I should always have my time scheduled. I should divide it properly that I can have a time for my family and myself.
o Inspired – I should be inspired on what I’m doing; I should see the benefits that will come up with my work to be inspired in finishing it. I should be inspired by my parents teaching and preaching form the very beginning, I should be inspired by some of the most successful persons who started from nothing, I should be inspired from the girl I love… ^_^
o Faith – I should believe to my self and everything around me, I should trust in my abilities for me to work well. I should have faith in God for he is the only one who can help and raise me when I’m dying form emptiness… I should believe in him that everything that happens to me has a purpose and will come up a great output and I will wait for that time 10 years from now…
I’m glad I have concerned parents who always remind me of the right things that I should do. They are the one who motivates me in pursuing my dreams in life. They are the one who keeps telling me about those good things I should consider in order for me to be a good successful IT professional. They are also the one who keeps reminding me about the bad things I should avoid and correct.
o Lack of self control – they always tell me that I have a short temper…in short a high blood since I was a kid… I always have an enemy to fight because of my attitude. I should always control my self to avoid further distraction ^_^. Also spending too much money is also lack of self control and I should avoid that.
o Waste of time – right now I could tell that I always waste my time doing stuff that doesn’t have any sense… I always submit my home works late, I always do my projects one or three days before deadlines that causes exhaustion. I should always do thing on time to avoid further delay.
o Self Abuse – by not managing my time properly I always end up making my projects over time 24 hours in two to three days which is not right… at the end of the project I end up exhausted and worst sick for three days… becoming a worthy IT professional is not all about work but including proper manage of health…
o Girls Temptations – they always remind me to give them diploma not a baby so I should focus on my studies. Anyway I have a girlfriend now an IT student also in the same school and my parents is sooo afraid… I always tell them that they should trust me for I know what the right things to do… but who knows? ^_^
Well I always have these things in my mind in order to succeed… and I should avoid and control it… anyway I can also tell that there are times that you can’t avoid it but instead you just have to correct it and control it in order to manage.
• What are my strategies to become a worthy IT professional?
My strategies are very simple… I should become a good person with a good heart to have more friends to lean on. I should follow what my heart lean on and think it right. I should be aware of what I’m doing. I should study more and research more to become aware of the changing technology. I should consider some good advises from concern people like my family, teachers and others. I should follow those good things listed above and avoid the bad ones. I should have my own strategic planning to help not just my self but everything that surrounds me. I should have goals and objectives to motivate me. Lastly I should believe in my self and pray to God that everything will be just fine ^_^.
Thank you for this assignment sir although its so mind boggling making out 3000 words, I have just recalled my past. I have answered those questions again and improve it, and still it amazes me the way I think about my course… I think everyone does about their own ideas… for me I think I can be a worthy IT professional someday and my baseline starts here…
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