Game in the Brain

I figured something out on my own, which every IT person already knows. I guess I can chuck that to experience. Basically its the structure of Systems Admin and Network Admin. These two key roles are important specializations and expensive in terms of training and experience.

• System Admin is what a Certified Linux/Windows Professional or, for the vendor neutral term, System Admin Professional. They deal with servers, domain control, user accounts, the database, and all the server applications. 
• Network Admin is what, in vendor neutral term, Certified Network Professional. 

The level of training and ability really depends on the skill set your company needs. Looking closely at the skillset there are iterations of complexity that are very complex. Both for Network and System Admin, have a mastery level that can take years.

Building a Skilltree. Building the skill tree is rather simple process, but time consuming. By my meaning of simple, is that I figured out how to check if my data is correct or where I can get the information. But given that its not simple enough to explain in a couple of sentences here Its rather complex.

Vetting the Skilltree. Most of what I have to do is look at the professional training curriculum of the certification courses. from there, I can identify key skills that is very relevant to the operations of the business. Then it is a matter of looking at the training reference and hours, and modify it based on self study metrics and the resources it takes to operate a sufficient “lab” for the exercise.

This is not a perfect science, the time slots are guidelines. It is after the exercises we have a real sense of metrics what it takes to learn a particular skill.

It will take a bit of time, because I haven’t figured out what is going to happen next. That’s the problem with doing things for the first time, there are just so many directions to go and the information of what is best to do comes a little late.

I still plan to get trained in System and Network Admin. I admit it may look like a bit of micromanaging but it gives me a more profound sense of what is possible. I hate being on the end which is trying to grasp alien concepts in high stakes business decisions.