Peter Khoury, a keynote presenter at PNSQC 2016, remembers (sort of) his first stand-up comedy performance.
It was a night a decade ago at the Rooster T Feathers Comedy Club in Sunnyvale, CA. Khoury was still in the very first phases of his transformation from biotech software engineer to leadership and public speaking consultant. As part of his commitment to become comfortable in front of audiences, he'd signed on to do a sketch at the local comedy club.
If the IT department suspects the rest of the company harbors rogue app downloaders, it should look for the perps among staff millennials first.
That’s what a survey of 1,500 North American workers by IT solutions provider Softchoice might suggest. The survey queried workers on cloud security related issues and found that millennials are far more likely than the elders on the job to go behind IT’s back to download apps—often unauthorized ones.