{"id":3615,"date":"2013-04-12T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:43:58","slug":"herding-cats-other-management-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2013\/04\/herding-cats-other-management-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Herding cats &#038; other management functions<!--:--><!--:af-->Wie is aan die (be)stuur?<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p>Dave Platt once said &#8220;Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.&#8221;\u00a0The IT Division comprises some 105 staff members ranging from support technicians, through system administrators, engineers, software developers to business analysts.\u00a0\u00a0So who are the brave herders who manage this unmanagable group and also the rest of the IT staff?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2013\/04\/bestuur-organogram-bw4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3763\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2013\/04\/bestuur-organogram-bw4.jpg\" alt=\"bestuur-organogram-bw\" width=\"550\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2013\/04\/bestuur-organogram-bw4.jpg 550w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2013\/04\/bestuur-organogram-bw4-501x1024.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the detailed job descriptions <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/about-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:af--><\/p>\n<p>Dave Platt het per geleentheid ges\u00ea\u00a0&#8220;Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.&#8221;\u00a0Die IT-afdeling bestaan uit meer as `n honderd personeellede wat strek van ondersteuningstegnici, stelseladministrateurs, ingenieurs, sagteware ontwikkelaars tot besigheidsanaliste.\u00a0\u00a0So wie bestuur hierdie groep en ook die hele IT-personeel?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2013\/04\/bestuur-organogram-bw4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bestuur-organogram-bw\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/files\/2013\/04\/bestuur-organogram-bw4.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"1124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lees die gedetaileerde posbeskrywings <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/about-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">hier.<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/about-2\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Platt once said &#8220;Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.&#8221;\u00a0The IT Division comprises some 105 staff members ranging from support technicians, through system administrators, engineers, software developers to business analysts.\u00a0\u00a0So who are the brave herders who manage this unmanagable group and also the rest of the IT staff? &nbsp; Read the detailed job descriptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,54470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-meet-our-people"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 09:40:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}