Scrum Methodology Explained What is a Scrum? What is Agile? Have you ever been to a meeting full of professionals using buzzwords like ‘Agile,’ ‘Scrum,’ or ‘Product Owner’ and wondered what those terminologies are? By definition, Agile means “able to move quickly and easily”. Agile in management [...]
Technology Services - Student Affairs Formerly Department of Information Technology (DoIT) This year we saw the campus-wide, administrative reorganization known as The Path Forward. The plan called for IT units to move to a unified administrative structure. Before the unification of IT units, coordination between various IT [...]
Accessing Your Adobe Creative Cloud License Licenses for Full Time Employees Texas A&M University is funding Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Creative Cloud licenses, for up to two devices, for all TAMU main campus, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, and School of Dentistry part-time and full-time employees for [...]
Texas A&M monitors cybersecurity threats 24 hours a day. There are many ways an unauthorized person might be able to enter your access-controlled facility. One way is to check for a door that is propped open or a window that is not latched properly, especially when you are not watching. Another technique is [...]
Cloud Services What is Cloud Computing? As most of the services are now becoming cloud native acquiring cloud-based software services is something we all have to do. There are certain requirements you need before you can acquire these services and our web post provides a user friendly [...]
Microsoft Planner Organization Made Simple Microsoft Planner is an app making organization simple and visual. You can use it to plan an event, support customers, publish content, track a process, and much more. Planner can also connect to Teams and help complete your group tasks alongside your [...]
A lot of work goes into planning a move to a new home. As students prepare to move into on-campus residence halls, it takes a team to make it happen well. A year ago, the Department of Residence Life began planning a big move—not the living quarters for students, rather the location of an online [...]
Docking Stations Bridging Portable and Stationary Desktop Setups Traditionally, workstations include a stationary PC setup with a monitor or two. This means that your work devices stay in one place for a prolonged period and do not move. This can become an issue for some folks when [...]
Mark Matusek and his son Kyle discover a brick remembering his uncle Marvin Matusek ’51. For 30 years the plaza outside the Sanders Corps of Cadet Center has been systematically paved brick by inscribed brick. Each brick has a story, and each makes other stories possible. But finding a particular brick in the [...]
Tune-up Tips for Your Devices Software Updates DSA Computers and IT Infrastructure are normally updated during standard maintenance windows on Saturday and Sunday between midnight and 12 PM. Staff should always log out of their device at the end of the workday on Friday but leave their [...]