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What You Can Expect from a Configuration Management Career

Whether you are a seasoned veteran or just breaking into the field, a career in configuration management (CM) can be both rewarding and challenging. This story will guide you through the questions you may have, what you can expect from a CM career, and some of its pros and cons.

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Joe Townsend
Why Do We Make Bad Decisions?

In the workplace, not a day goes by that you don’t have to make a decision, or more likely several. How many of them subsequently proved to be bad decisions? Naomi Karten writes why it's worth considering how these decisions can affect your professional and personal life.

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Naomi Karten
Culture Shock: A Battle of the Sexes in Software Development

The number of women in the field of software development has been on a steady decline for decades and little has been done to buck the trend. The need to ask why this lack of parity exists has passed. Today, groups are working to correct the problem—and not just continue to point it out.

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Noel Wurst
How You Can Overcome the Paradox of Choice

The more choices there are, the less satisfied we become. Naomi Karten explains how to overcome this paradox of choice. Most of the time, we don’t need the very best and only rarely is it worth struggling to find the best choice.

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Naomi Karten
IT Management and Software Dominate Most Hated Professions—Why?

Of the top ten most hated jobs in the US, more come from the computer and software fields than anywhere else. What's making workers so unhappy in these positions while QA engineers sit atop the list of having the happiest job in the US?

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Noel Wurst
QA Engineer: The Happiest Job in America

Software quality assurance engineers were recently crowned as having the happiest jobs in America. We look at what factors were used in making this distinction, while looking for other software positions in the top twenty. Did yours make the list?

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Noel Wurst