Author Archives | Justin Scott
Justin Scott - who has written 11 posts on CIO Mojo.
Justin Scott has owned a few technology consulting companies over the years, been a principle with numerous start-ups, and currently heads up the technology efforts for Sitehawk, a leading provider of web-based chemical management software and services.
Mr. Scott is fascinated by the inner workings of what makes a well-run technology team. He has managed larger onshore as well as offshore projects, is considered an advid scrum practicioner, and has served in senior data architect and application roles at earlier points of his career. He is a native Floridian currently living in Tennessee and when home from work loves spending time with his beautiful wife and 2 daughters. He has also been known to fish, coach soccer, play raquetball, and play the guitar when time permits.
Contact the author
Posted on 30 June 2009
Let me start off by saying I have been using Rackspace for some time for our hosting and have been VERY impressed by their support they give us. Yesterday’s downtime was still a very frustrating day for many folks though who weathered their outage. Below is a copy of the report Rackspace offered its customers [...]
Tags: hosting, outage
Posted on 04 June 2009
I wanted to reflect back on a great lesson learned from a situation that happened to me a few years ago. I had realized I was a little disconnected from an internal stakeholder. I decided to insure that I get back in touch and tighten up the relationship. I noticed over the previous month a [...]
Tags: CIO, stakeholder relationship
Posted on 12 May 2009
I still have a very vivid memory of years ago when I has brought into a meeting to interview a potential vendor who was selling us a development product. I was a lead developer at a startup healthcare software company. Apparently this product was being pushed onto our development team because our project managers were told [...]
Tags: ROI, vendor, vendor management
Posted on 07 May 2009
A few nights ago we woke up to a call from a neighbor at 1:30AM who is a single mom. She was in a panic and begged for me to come over and see if someone was in her house. After a quick look around the perimeter I called the police to check inside reasoning that their [...]
Tags: Business Objectives, CIO, MBO, Most Important
Posted on 28 April 2009
Upon getting married almost a decade ago, my wife and I were determined to go have a white picket fence, a dog, and kids and then become the next June and Ward Clever. After a dose of reality and a few months of repeated “involved” discussions on whether the toilet seat should be left up or down at [...]
Tags: career lessons, marriage, work conflicts