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13 April 2010
Speaking @ PMI Fairview Park Forum
On Wednesday, April 21st, Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the Project Management Institute’s Fairview Park Forum . 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 team from [...]
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6 October 2009
Speaking @ Norfolk Area PMI Dinner Group
On Wed Oct 7th, Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the Project Management Institute’s Norfolk Dinner Meeting. Sunjay will be presenting the topic: The Switching Gears Factor which describes portions of ALTERthought’s IT Governance approaches – particularly estimation and budgeting. In this session, Sunjay will discuss how the multi-tasking arising from multi-project assignments [...]
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18 September 2009
Grails and Cloud Computing: Part 1 – Amazon EC2
Progress to Date
This entry is a part of the ‘What can you build in 40hrs‘ series– which, in a nutshell, involved an experiment to see what we could build in about typical weeks worth of work. In the last post we effectively completed the basic functional requirements of the application, and now have a [...]
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3 September 2009
Grails App in ~40 hrs (part 5)
Welcome back to our effort to build a Grails app in less than a week. This post will cover the final functional aspects of the application, after which we can move on to trying to deploy the app into a Cloud Computing platform.
To recap briefly our progress to date:
Part 1: We introduce the basic [...]
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17 August 2009
Grails App in ~40 hrs (part 4)
The last post covered the kickoff to the ‘twodo‘ application– where we created our Grails application, wired in JSecurity via plugin, and created a few of the core Domain objects the system will need.
In this post we will refine the general look and feel of the User Interface, as well as start building the core [...]
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10 August 2009
Building a Grails App in ~40 hrs (part 3)
In part 1 and part 2 of this series we introduced a challenge to build a reasonably non-trivial application in just a week. We have decided on Grails as the primary technology framework, and once we have a prototype working, we hope to deploy it to a cloud computing platform like Google’s AppEngine [...]
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8 August 2009
Talk @ UVa MSMIT
I gave a talk today at my alma mater for the Executive Masters in Management Information Technology Northern Virginia section. Professor Ryan Nelson was kind enough to invite me to present a combination of topics pertaining to both Agile Project Management and Rapid Planning. All-in-all, I had a great time — even if it is [...]
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3 August 2009
Building A Grails App in 40 hrs
In a prior post, I talked about an experiment — to build a working task management application in about 40 hours.
The high-level constraints governing the experiment were as follows:
The application should be web-based and ‘modern’ (AJAX, friendly URL’s, etc)
It should be reasonably non-trivial.
It should be developed as it were going to someday become a Software [...]
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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 [...]
