IT - The Areas on which I will focus in next three months

First and foremost, I may need to categorize my intense concentration areas related to the Business Area, which is one of three major focal areas where I vowed to achive high goals in this three months. That could be specific technological areas or general management areas. Well, let me start listing up below:

1. UNIX
2. Java
3. ITIL
4. Project management
5. IT Architect


Let me scrutinize each subject:

1. UNIX

This includes Linux for sure. The experience of UNIX and Linux happened to begin with the new company I joined last April. At the previous company I'd engaged in almost 10 years, I barely used other than Windows-based technology. So, in a sense, I came to the company to attain those skills to make myself more valuable.

As a IT professional, I need to be familiar with UNIX based technology as well as Windows. High end systems usually depend on the latter systems rather than the former ones. So, I should have changed the situation that I couldn't handle the operating system or similar.

Until now I've already experienced several projects that I needed to use UNIX or similar systems such as AIX. The experience was relatively shocking to me in the sense of big differences between Windows and that ones. People need to use character based user interface instead of graphical user interface that I thought this was definitely defacto standard. But people really like the command based operations.

Anyway, I need to get familiar with UNIX and Linux. To achieve that, as a plan I will build my own system using my old personal computers by installing free Linux into them. And I'll configure the network settings and make it a web server published in the Internet. It might take several weeks, but that makes sense. That is worth it.


2. Java

As I mentioned serveral times before, I must learn Java technology. It's because I am a software architect even though I'm now a project manager in the current company, and also because Java is defacto standard in programming languages. After building my own Linux system, I will construct my software world upon that. That's really helpful for the world.


3. ITIL

My previous project is a ITIL related project. It means my job is managing the customer's IT infrastracture and making a plan for the improvement or applying the software patches. The important thing is that the customer had highly controled and process based management sytle. At first, I was surprised at their governance. It seemed non sense or kind of wasted. But as time goes, I found that that is a "ITIL". High performing IT organizations conduct such kind of practices. I learned that by experiencing the operations in reality and by reading the best book of ITIL. So, it's good to learn ITIL right now.


4. Project management

I'm a project manager, so I'd better study further more about project management. It's self-evident.


5. IT Architect

I'm a software architect, so I'd better study further more about software architecture. It's self-evident.


Let's go!