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Posted in English, Technology on Oct 18th, 2007
I originally discussed the waterfall method in a previous blog post. Pranav just made a comment that I feel needs some further discussion:
I disagree with the following statement: “This is how science (unfortunately) often works – researchers just cite something, because everyone else does so as well, and don’t really read the publications that they [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Dec 7th, 2006
I just listened to Greg Gianforte’s presentation on bootstrapping a company. What he says is that the way of starting a company that’s taught in all business schools is not the right way. Of the hundreds of thousands of startups every year, only one percent follow the business school dogma of writing a business plan, [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Nov 29th, 2006
When I read Moishe Lettvin’s blog entry about the design of the Windows Vista shutdown mechanisms (moblog: The Windows Shutdown crapfest), it immediately connected with the podcast from Open Source Conversations on business benefits of PHP. The main benefit that several companies gained by switching to PHP was reduced time-to-market. The main reason for this [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Jun 21st, 2006
I’m hosting a session at the XP2006 conference and here’s the material for that session.
Also, the title should probably talk about Dispersed, not distributed, since that’s what we’re doing (not just having teams in separate locations, but having team members in separate locations).
LeMill development site
Demo LeMill server
Concept map about Scrum
Concept map about XP
Concept map about [...]
Posted in English, Technology on Dec 8th, 2005
We’re now two months into CALIBRATE, a huge software development project funded by the European Schoolnet. It has close to 20 partners in different EU countries, and our team is coordinating one of the work packages, where we have 30 months to build a jazzy web portal for creating, browsing and using learning material in [...]
Posted in English, Psychology, Technology on Sep 9th, 2005
The Waterfall model is originally invented by Winston W. Royce in 1970. He wrote a scientific article that contained his personal views on software development. In the first half of the article, he discusses a process that he calls “grandiose”. He even drew a figure of the model, and another showing why it doesn’t work [...]
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