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Atul Mathur Life after Corporate Warfare

The spectrum of CW extends to all phases of life from the Potter mania to the chasms of literacy. The depths are really frightening !!!! The extent was a one which had not taken my breath away but nearly wrecked my professional life and private life as a human being. Why does one go about it only to gain short term benefits or pleasures, is the omnipresent query i have wondered since i started working at the Divisional Head levels about a decade back. I feel pity and nothing but for the people… Continue

Added by Atul Mathur on April 9, 2009 at 10:33am — 1 Comment

Michael "Ollie" Oliver New Book on CS4 Flash

I have a new book coming out in a couple of weeks, "Essential Guide to CS4 Flash with ActionScript" from Apress. Watch this blog for excerpts and the Amazon listing when it comes out. Ollie Continue

Added by Michael "Ollie" Oliver on February 13, 2009 at 8:19pm — No Comments

Adeel Ansari Seam Vs Spring

In the spirit of bipartisanship, I'd like to start off by saying that Seam and Spring are both excellent and proven frameworks. With the advent of Spring WebFlow, Spring has entered itself as a serious contender in the stateful web framework space. You really can't go wrong with either one. So how do you decide then? Personally, my feeling is that your choice of Spring vs Seam is going to come down to two factors: style of development and architecture. Seam espouses very thin layering, while Sp… Continue

Added by Adeel Ansari on October 8, 2008 at 12:30am — No Comments

Mark Porter About me

I have experience in project management (mainly software development) and programme management(eg training, and process improvement for software cost estimation). Also I have produced a report on risk management techniques for management, and evaluated an RM tool for corporate adoption. Also, I have worked in software development (real-time and databases) and QA. Continue

Added by Mark Porter on October 3, 2008 at 3:10am — No Comments

Atul Mathur Search for New Challenges

14th September 2008 Its surprising how all things come back to the very stance one starts. I took off from work to support my ailing dad. I spent a year and more to nurse and just be their for him as he was for me throughout his time. I speculated as i had exposure and expertise i could get back and join any company after some 3 months. It was not destined. !! I had to be with him till his demise last month. I guess i was determined but lacked the confidence. I was searching to satisfy my va… Continue

Added by Atul Mathur on September 15, 2008 at 2:31pm — 6 Comments

Atul Mathur Life as it went Past 2006 -2007

20/Jan/2007 The set up is nice. The boss is a great motivator. He knows what he is talking about. He wants me to move in to the Leadership Club and start dishing out My Manager on global stuff to boost him up the ladder. Cool, Not bad. Well, Process Group working and members are formed formally and kick started now. Next job is to get the reporting channels straight. This setup looks weird with me reporting to 4 people and none knowing my actual performance. This could be bad in future.… Continue

Added by Atul Mathur on March 27, 2008 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Michael Buksas SEIR post

Finally got around to posting about the SEIR. I'm not going to look at how long it's been since the last one. Continue

Added by Michael Buksas on March 26, 2008 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Adeel Ansari My Feedback on Qi4j and Edward's Response

On 13th of March 2008, Thursday, I have attended a presentation on an old-new concept of programming, Composite Oriented Programming, presented by a well-known personality, Rickard Öberg. He is the guy behind XDoclets, WebWork, and… Continue

Added by Adeel Ansari on March 17, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

Amarnath Bose Whither IIT JEE?

The JEE earlier was conducted in two rounds - with a screening round followed by a main examination. The advantage was that one could use objective testing in the screening round and machine evaluation of the large number of answer scripts was followed by an in-depth subjective, non multiple choice test for a manageable number of candidates who qualified from the screening round. IIT has gone back on this and now it is a single multiple choice type test. Multiple choice tests can never evaluate… Continue

Added by Amarnath Bose on March 12, 2008 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Eileen Bonfiglio Please welcome our 800th SPIN member Veli Pirttilä!

We're a fast growing group! Thank you to everyone for coming over and joining us! Continue

Added by Eileen Bonfiglio on March 6, 2008 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

ruslan Random note 1

Ok, I will post random notes about software quality here: First what to thinks about quality: is a relation between quality, costs and success (which usually means 'time to market'). I. e. as business we must solve task to minimize some function from 'time-to-market,cost,quality'. Usually first variable (time-to-market) we try to minimize, when two others (cost and quality) we try to keep in some limits. Now, let's try to do some really speculative analogous: - In mathematics similar linear pro… Continue

Added by ruslan on March 6, 2008 at 12:46pm — 1 Comment

Atul Mathur ApexManuals

25/02 0230hrs Each organizations has to maintainan apex manual for process requirments as per the ISOframeworks. It is useful in informing external parties on the nature and the kindof operations an unit is engaged in. Some call it an Quality Manual, the preferance of many is to maintain a series of apex manuals of an organization. As the unit is large, the contextual understanding of individuals is not able to assimilate the complete integratity to a single apex manula and added to this compl… Continue

Added by Atul Mathur on February 24, 2008 at 4:26pm — No Comments

Michael "Ollie" Oliver The Agile Taxonomy Webinar

We are putting on a free webinar later this week, here is the sprout. Come on over and participate. Continue

Added by Michael "Ollie" Oliver on February 18, 2008 at 6:51pm — No Comments

Michael "Ollie" Oliver The Process Improvement Process

I must say I am very excited about contributing to this SPIN. I attended the SEI course then named "The Common approach to software development" when I was a Senior Systems Analyst at SAIC back in the early 90's. I have been a strong proponent of a Process Improvement Process applied to product development since then. Now I am CTO of a Software Product company and trying to teach my developers and managers about it and finding the same resistance born from ignorance as I learned about so many y… Continue

Added by Michael "Ollie" Oliver on February 18, 2008 at 6:48pm — No Comments

Michael Buksas Staying alive

Added a follow-up to the single response to my last question. Also put a link to an agile methodology talk at InfoQ in the SW forum and a link to reviewboard in the Tools forum. Things are quiet. TOO quiet... Continue

Added by Michael Buksas on February 13, 2008 at 4:05pm — No Comments

Michael Buksas Finally, another question

Finally got around to posting another question in the forum. The conversation started from the last one lasted for awhile, which is nice. I should get back to weekly postings, however. I've started a list of potential questions in a google document, so that I can capture ideas at home or work.
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Added by Michael Buksas on January 28, 2008 at 6:18pm — No Comments

Michael Buksas More discussions in the Software Development group forum

I added two new posts to the forum: A question about the relationship between personal and process improvement and a link to Construx's "Classic Mistakes" white paper.

Also sent Elieen a message to see if she had any advice on stimulating more participation in the group. Things are kind of quiet over there.

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Added by Michael Buksas on January 10, 2008 at 11:03am — 1 Comment

Gary Comerford Hello!

As I'm a new member here I just wanted to post a quick entry to say 'Hi' and to introduce myself a little. As you can see from my profile I am a Business Process Consultant working in the UK. I have a background in Enterprise Architecture, financial / ERP software implementation and auditing (don't hiss!). I'm looking forward to some lively interaction with members of this group.

Feel free to contact me or add me as a friend (I don't usually bite..)

Thanks..

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Added by Gary Comerford on January 4, 2008 at 6:04am — No Comments

Michael Buksas First question in the SD forum

I posted the first of many (I hope) questions in the SD group's forum. We've only got 26 (?) members, but I hope the question is interesting enough to elicit some responses.
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Added by Michael Buksas on January 1, 2008 at 4:55pm — No Comments

Michael Buksas Books and other process improvement material

Followed up with Dale Thomson about his book suggestions. A quick look suggests that the Lean Development books address many of the things I have concerns about wrt my team. The CEI material is more involved and I'm not sure what I'll be able to apply from it. Their info repository looks useful.

So I'm already learning things from this group. I'd say that's a good start.

Also, I might make this into a question for the S… Continue

Added by Michael Buksas on December 31, 2007 at 1:56am — No Comments

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Atul Mathur

Life after Corporate Warfare

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New Book on CS4 Flash

Posted by Michael "Ollie" Oliver on February 13, 2009 at 8:19pm

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Seam Vs Spring

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About me

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Search for New Challenges

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