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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 Sep 25th, 2006
The Joel test is an excellent way of quickly assessing a development team’s health. I just disagree on a couple of steps, so I wrote an update to it.
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 May 3rd, 2006
I’ve been using OpenOffice.org 2 for a few months now, and before that, Openoffice.org 1.x for years. Before that, I’ve used MS Office, StarOffice, IBM Works, WordPerfect, etc. At why.openoffice.org there are references to studies that show that upgrading from MS Office to OpenOffice.org 2 costs like 10% of the upgrade to the newest MS [...]
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 [...]
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