On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Pete Jansson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The Practice of System and Network Administration (2nd edition). (A Mentor
>> in a book)
>> Analytical Network and System Administration Managing Human-Computer
>> Systems. (Rigor! Rigor! Rigor!)
>
>
> I've only read TPOSANA (and only 1e at that -- 2e sits in the giant pile of
> unread ebooks at the moment).  But my concern with these is that they may be
> more focused on technical practices than on people and IT's business role.
> While every organization structures itself a little differently, an IT
> Director is likely to spend more time dealing with the strategy and people
> issues than the technical practices, so I'm inclined to make these two a
> lower priority than the first two.  (Unless the IT Director is also the
> sysadmin team, in which case read all four!)


I agree... of the whole book only 2 chaptersare directly for managers.
 Pete is pretty good with the technical "architecture" stuff in the
rest of the book already :-).  I would be interested in feedback about
the two management chapters. I promise to keep the notes for if we do
another edition.


Tom

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