I'm hoping that later today the American version of ComputerWorld will carry the Dries Buytaert article I came across on their Australian site. The article is an interview with Dries and titled, "Drupal: from a drop in the ocean to a big fish in the CMS World". Yes, it's a catchy title for the interview, but I like sub-heading even more.
"If you think you need filtering technologies to be sure your employees aren't damaging your reputation, that's a management problem, not a technology one. If employees can't be trusted, technology is the least of your problems."
- Tim Bray, Director of Web technologies at Sun Microsystems Inc., "Keeping Secrets in a WikiBlogTubeSpace World", ComputerWorld, March 19, 2007
On Planet Drupal, there have been a number of posts lately about the difficulty project leaders and developers have in saying "no" while working on a project. As much as Project leaders want to please both their client and their team members, real leaders understand the responsibilities they have in saying "no". More specifically, I'm talking about Boris Mann's post, "Susan Mernit on the role of "no" in product development" as well as Laura Scott's own post You've got to know when to 'no' them.
"The best IT execs I've run across are the ones who skip the complaining about management and go in and do a job that seemed impossible in the face of immature technology, indifferent management and throttled budgets."
- Eric Lundquist, "IT success knows no boundaries", eWeek, September 4, 2006
As you may have noticed, we have changed our "IT Quotes of the Week" to "Quoting IT". I found that I do not always come across a good quote worthy of posting here at CMS Report. Also, there are times I just don't have the time to catch up on my trade magazines and the quotes are not really valid this week.