ALTERthought Blogs Archives: July 2009
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22 July 2009
Speaking @ DC Area PMI Luncheon Group
On Monday August 17th, Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the Project Management Institute’s DC Area Luncheon Group . Sunjay will be presenting a topic entitled Project Plan Ninja which discusses how to manage Rapid Business Requirements generation on a Rapid Application Development project. Sunjay will be presenting proven techniques that can take your [...]
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15 July 2009
Beyond velocity: issue metrics
Continuing our series on beefing up the Agile dashboard with ‘leading indicator’ type metrics, let’s discuss project issues. First, let’s get on the same page on the definition. A good way to understand the definition of an issue is to compare to that of a risk. So, what’s the difference between and issue and a [...]
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7 July 2009
What can you build in ~40 hours?
My biz partner and I were relaxing over a few beers the other week and discussing recent trends in software development, agile methodology, etc (and our use of these trends over the past 7-10 years). At some point in time, we started talking about how little time 40 hours (i.e., a ‘typical’ work week) really [...]
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7 July 2009
Genius in small things and the pruning of mail …
Admission: I’m over thinking the release of a new Gmail feature, but I’m thinking its genius (little ‘g’). Given our experience with interactive transaction businesses on the Web (gaming, search, on-line advertising, etc.), I can sort of theorize with imaginary whiteboards and obligatory what-ifs, the benefit of said feature. And, I can see the practical [...]
