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I have written an essay talking about thinking about how we teach IT going forward, what we need to be including how we need to evolve the way we teach like we do in the way we support and provision our infrastructure.

I will post it nearer the end of the week and make it freely downloadable, its a few ideas and resulted from a conversation I was having with dad actually, you see I went to college/university, came out with my degree looking for work and wish that I had been supplied with a bit more ammunition:

• How to behave – suit/no suit – how to respond to those emails, what building a server meant, did I need a screw driver, what a bank build was, those kind of things
• What was best practice – what the vendor said and what we actually did, why we were sometimes a few generations behind, how I could make a difference
• Some technical and non technical experience – to be not armed that sounds emotional, but had I been on call, I might have understood what it meant, what the process might be

I wonder if we could not transform the perception of IT through education, and reach out to the next generation, get them enthusiastic about the platforms, understand their new ideas and as a person who is now 29 – avoid getting stuck in the:

• we’ll see
•  in the we don’t do it that way
• we can’t change things

To get back to how it used to be :

• We can do things better,
• Why are we doing it like that?
• We can make a difference

Something which every IT person has to believe as part of good delivery, development and self belief/satisfaction.

This essay is short, it is not directly helpful for those trying to configure an ILO or deploy a virtualization solution, but indulge me, see what you think and hopefully refresh your ideas, your concepts and continue the IT journey through innovative, excitement and deliverying empowerment to the end users.

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