ALTERthought Blogs Archives: Project Management
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21 June 2008
Estimating Like Pro
On Wednesday, June 18th, I had the honor of presenting our approach to software estimation at the Central Virginia Chapter of the Project Management Institute. Hard-won over the past 10 years, it helps unite both plan driven and agile approaches for estimating software development projects. Owing to serendipity (and 10 years of preparation), overall the […]
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19 May 2008
The Triple Constraint
In interviewing potential Project Management candidates for our clients’ initiatives as well as our own, there are a number of key touchstone questions that we use to assess the experience and capability of potential new hires. Generally speaking the one question that can lead to an organic set of follow up questions that provide a […]
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27 June 2007
Ruby on Rails as a Platform of Choice? The Case for Rails.
I’ll preface this post, by stating there are people infinitely more qualified in our company to discuss the technical merits of Ruby on Rails (RoR) as a framework choice. I write this post from the various perspectives of the “president,” “idea guy,” the sometimes “project manager,” and the “unresponsive stakeholder.”
There is much hullabaloo about RoR […]
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5 June 2007
5 Ingredients for the Application Development ROI Soup
Fact: The way most of us in the industry calculate Return on Investment (ROI) for software application development is broken.
As we continue to work with our partners, competitors, and clients, I am continually stunned by how companies quantify the business value gained from application development and integration work they perform. Typically, its an after-the-fact analysis […]
