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You’ve joined an elite team of engineers and administrators tasked to oversee your company’s technological needs.  As your company’s ambitious marketing teams generate more and more buzz, you find that with each day your job circles increasingly around growing your business’s capacity.  Months go by filled with unhindered efforts in project completion.  You’ve helped double your web traffic, beef up your network, and revamp your monitoring system.  ...

My internship at Function1 has been an awesome experience thus far. I was ecstatic for the opportunity and unsure of what exactly to expect. I had just finished a bumpy transition through my first year of college and I wasn't sure if I was entirely prepared for an IT internship at this early stage. Nonetheless, I was excited and determined to capitalize on the opportunity. The small size of the company meant equal attention was given for all and everyone has their own individual place in the company. I also found that it was a laid back environment compared to...

As a business analyst, requirements management is at the top of my list of interests and is something that is rarely talked about or discussed, but essential to any sucessful software development process. Without requirements, there are no defined statements as to which the project outcome should conform to. Each requirement should be documented, actionable, measureable, testable, and should define a business need or opportunity. This is important to a successful and timely delivery of systems, but when applied correctly, it can be used in all facets of decision making.

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Companies, similar to humans, have norms and habits and Function1 has one.  Towards the last quarter of the year, the Function1 fraternity gets to be in teams of threes where each team is tasked with selecting a technology, researching it and, in an exotic company retreat during the month of January, presenting it to the other team members.  Given that we come from different schools of thought, it isn't always easy to agree on a technology among the team members (though we are only three) but then democracy prevails (sort of) and the most senior person picks a technology! In the end, our...