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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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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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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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23 March 2009
Speaking @ Tyson’s Corner PMI Luncheon Group
On Tuesday March 24th, Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the Project Management Institute’s Tyson’s Corner Area Luncheon Group . Sunjay will be reprising a topic entitled 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 [...]
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23 March 2009
Speaking @ PMI – Central Virginia Chapter
On Thursday, March 19th, Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the Project Management Institute’s Central Virginia Chapter. Sunjay will be presenting a topic entitled The Switching Gears Factor which describes portions of ALTERthought’s IT Governance approaches – particularly estimation and budgeting. Specifically, Sunjay’s presentation discusses how multi-tasking negatively impacts project schedules and budgets and how [...]
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23 March 2009
Speaking @ National Press Club
Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the National Press Club on March 4 as part of the PMI’s monthly Executive AM Breakfasts. He will be reprising a presentation that has garnered some interest on how to quickly move from requirements to work plans entitled: Conversation to Commitment: Cues, clues, and tools for turning application development [...]
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2 September 2008
Terracotta Plugin for Grails
I have created a new Grails Plugin to help in the development of Grails applications clustered using Terracotta. The details of this plugin can also be found at http://www.grails.org/Terracotta+Plugin.
Terracotta is a Java infrastructure that allows you to scale your application by clustering JVMs.
Features
Generation of a terracotta configuration file
Generation of terracotta enabled start up scripts for [...]
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3 August 2008
Drools Plugin for Grails Application
I have just released a Grails Plugin for Drools. The plugin details can also be found at http://www.grails.org/Drools+Plugin.
Drools is a business rule management system (BRMS) and an enhanced Rules Engine implementation, ReteOO, based on Charles Forgy’s Rete algorithm tailored for the Java language.
Features
Easy implementation of Drools
Rules can be stored in file or in database
Rules [...]
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31 July 2008
Grails 1.0.3 upgrade issues
Recently, we upgraded our application running in Grails 1.0.1 to 1.0.3. Just to give you an idea, the application is pretty complicated involving multiple data sources, complex hibernate mappings with JPA annotations, legacy system, linking tons of external services etc. We had to overcome few significant hurdles to get our application to run in Grails [...]
