Jarle's blog
Jarle Bjørgeengen works as a system administrator at the Unix department of USIT. His main responsibilities is development and maintenance of configuration management systems, performance monitoring systems and storage and Linux infrastructures. He finished his masters degree at Oslo University college/University of Oslo in 2010 and spends some time assisting the College with their master programme.
During the recent and now stalled USIT 2.0 project and in the IHR project the word "quality" and QA (Quality Assurance) occurs frequently. I'm sure everyone agrees that quality is a good thing, and we all aim for high quality in our work every day. But how much thought are given to the meaning of the word, and what defines quality?
During my masters-program "System and network administration" at OUC i used the opportunity to establish tighter relationship between the masters-program and USIT. Students at OUC visited our data center and several guest lectures were held by USIT staff, introducing architecture, history, processes and organization at USIT. The activities were well received and to the mutual benefits of students and lecturers at OUC and USIT.
After finishing the masters degree I've used some time to keep up this relation by holding guest lectures in storage and configuration management, course-planning, and being provider and advisor of master projects.
Here is an overview of these activities: