490 Wk 7 DQ2 . 100-150 WORDS
Some members of the IT project team have been asked to work remotely. Discuss how you will handle the obstacles associated with the possible disparity of the team not working together in one location during the IT project life cycle.
REPLIES. 75-100 WORDS
A Rakesh Gurmel
If you go a few years back, thinking working from home was never an option. Still, today we have technology that supports working from home, enabling remote office environments for many today. Looking into project management and working remotely, almost 95% of project tasks can be accomplished remotely. In today’s day and age, most application developers are in different geo locations and timezone. Managing projects with teams at different timezone and bringing them to the meeting is becoming more accessible and manageable. The project team can maintain customer collaboration, document management, coding, and project management. Today the entire project team can address project management from a single SAAS application.
B Francheska Janosik
I currently do this actually, I work remote 3 of 5 days and it can be challenging. One thing that is big for us to do is have weekly team meetings, which are done through zoom. Having this meeting lets the team go over a lot of group tasks and helps for them to make sure that they are all on the same track. We also schedule a bi-weekly sit down with our manager to get that one on one time with him so we don’t lose the personal touch that comes with working in the office. This way our boss can get to know us and we can get to know him and build that working repour. For work we have a share drive on our company network that allows us to share documents and have living documents that can be used by the whole team at any time.
C Jarrod Henderson
Well this question is definitely easier to answer since we have gone through the pandemic. At my company since we are already a Google shop it was easy for us to remain somewhat connected form a distance through Google Meet and Chat. This aided us dramatically with keeping up with projects that were already in progress prior to going to a more remote friendly environment. Our application development team was already working a hybrid schedule prior to the pandemic. More and more companies have begun moving into the hybrid workspace since then, they do have obstacles such as measurable data of work accomplished depending on the job in question. What I mean by this is if you have a programmer then you can see measurable data on things like code commits. While a network administrator may not make changes daily or even weekly. This will always raise eyebrows of are they actually working while they are not in the office.
430 WK8 DQ2. 100-150 WORDS
Research and identify a software that enables automation for IT System Administrator tasks. Compare this software to the built-in Microsoft PowerShell. Why would you consider using the software over PowerShell?
REPLIES. 75-100 WORDS
A Joshua Skinner
Python and PowerShell are both very popular and widely used software’s. Python is a high level general purpose interpreted programming language while PowerShell is a configuration management and a task automation framework that is provided by Microsoft. Some noticeable feature differences is that python has statement and control flow, indentation, extensive set of libraries, reference implementation, and cross compiles to other languages. PowerShell features include transactions, steppable pipelines, script debugging, network file transfer, block comments, and New cmdlets. Python would be considered over PowerShell due to its extensive full-fledged language, however it depends on what services you are requiring because PowerShell provides a shell scripting environment for Windows which is a better fit for automating tasks on most Windows platforms.
B Nicholas Laughlin
One software that I have found that is a close alternative to PowerShell is PuTTY. PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. When a sysadmin is always on the go or works at a different location PuTTY would be a great addition because it offers the ability to automate processes remotely using its command line. Another feature that PuTTY has is session management where you can save and load-store configurations that can connect to a variety of devices.
C Destiny Carlisle
One software that enables automation for IT System Administrator tasks is Ansible. Ansible is an open-source automation tool that can be used to automate IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.
Ansible is similar to PowerShell in that it allows for automation and scripting of administrative tasks, but it operates differently. Ansible uses a simple, human-readable language called YAML to define automation tasks, whereas PowerShell uses its own scripting language. Ansible is also agentless, meaning it does not require the installation of any software on the remote systems being managed, unlike PowerShell which requires the installation of the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on the remote systems. Ansible also has a larger and more active community, which means that there are a lot of pre-built modules and playbooks available for use and a larger user base to find solutions and troubleshoot issues. Ansible also has a more modern and simple architecture, it uses a push mechanism to send commands to the managed nodes, and it has a centralized control plane, which allows for easy scaling and management of multiple systems.