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Entries from January 2008

Project Management Unraveled

January 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Ever worked on a project that reminds you of this? Click here for a bigger picture

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Tags: Management · technology

Initiating Change

January 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Book Reviews · Management · Work · technology

Bruce Schneier Talks About Home WIFI

January 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Steal This Wi-Fi
For those of you who have not seen this article it is a must read. Here is the world’s most renown security/cryptology expert saying that it’s “basic politeness” to provide a public connection to any wanting visitor.
He makes quite an argument. The article even goes into the legal action that could take place […]

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Tags: technology

Checklists as a form of QA?

January 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Management · technology