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In any organization change is inevitable, in a fast paced environment change happens weekly and sometimes daily. In order to successfully manage and institute change you have to master techniques to gain support from your peers. Without support, the change will fail. Regardless of how high up the change from.
Unfortunately, as the saying goes, in […]

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QA is a crucial part of the development cycle that is always easily overlooked. Development teams are not given ample time to develop proper unit tests and quality assurance is not given sufficient time to properly run test cases against the application. This causes defects to rear their ugly face in production after being “tested” […]

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Book Review
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
By: Malcom Gladwell
Malcom Gladwell really hit the decision making spot with this book, showing numerous techniques for quickly breaking down a situation and coming up with a quick and accurate decision. Blink goes into great detail explaining how the more information you have can cloud your judgment when […]

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While at ZendCon07 I attended a talk by Eric David who was giving a lecture on Project Management. During his speech he plugged a web application called Remember the Milk that he used for task management. While at the office, Microsoft Outlook does a great job of keeping all my tasks organized and it works […]

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Ask anyone on the street what the current buzz in software management is and you’ll hear “Agile”. And while this is fine, the industry as a whole is missing a big part of the SDLC. You can use all the best practices in the world but in order for it to be useful it […]

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So I started this a few weeks ago and I still don’t really know what to expect. So many things to write about and so little people to read about them.
We’ve had quite a lot of personality conflicts lately which is a new task for me to manage. I’m attributing to the pace we’ve hired […]

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