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dhejov

Agile The Revolution: Now What?

22. June 2010, by dhejov

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Agile the revolution: Now what? Before we start our journey I would request the reader to be patient enough to reach the end of the blog and not to draw a conclusion in the middle of it. So what did I mean when I said “Agile the revolution”? Let us go back to the days when [...]

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Jim Walsh

Software: The last hand-made thing

25. November 2009, by Jim Walsh

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“Collector” is probably too generous a word, but I am definitely an aficionado of handcrafted items. While true hand craftsmanship has become rare and generally prohibitively expensive in the West, I’m fortunate that I get to travel to places where hand-made items are still relatively affordable. Over the years I’ve managed to accumulate artwork, metal-craft, [...]

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RickyHo

Test as a Spec

4. November 2009, by RickyHo

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One of a frequently encountered question in enterprise software development is where does the hand off happen from the architect (who design the software) to the developer (who implements the software). Usually, the architect designs the software at a higher level of abstraction and then communicate her design to the developers, who take the idea [...]

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dhejov

Train-to-Retain - Simple Success Formula

23. August 2009, by dhejov

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“When the going gets tough, tough gets going”. But the fact is tougher time ask for smarter and prudent strategies. Is shedding extra fat all what a can bulky corporate can rely on this time of recession? Is it due time to think beyond it?  As most economist believe that the grilling is over and sooner or [...]

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Johnny Scarborough

Agile, Innovation Games, and Conversation

18. August 2009, by Johnny Scarborough

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I recently attended an Innovation games ™ class held by Luke Hohmann of Enthiosys , http://www.enthiosys.com , and during and more so after the class, was struck by the power of “conversation”. The class itself was focusing on how to harness the various Innovation Games ™ as Luke has described in his book, http://www.innovationgames.com/about/The+Book , [...]

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Ashwani Kumar

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview

27. July 2009, by Ashwani Kumar

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Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Overview Elastic Compute Cloud is an environment provided by Amazon for creating and running Virtual servers. It allows us to make manage a Virtual servers like real machines. For example: It allows us to run and install software of our choice on machine. It provides us flexibility to create as many [...]

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Sachin Saxena

Going to the Cloud the Agile Way — Q & A

23. July 2009, by Sachin Saxena

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Cloud computing is dramatically changing the way applications will be developed, delivered and deployed by everyone from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses and start-ups. Users will need to understand the various Cloud options and providers available to them. So it is time to jump in with pilots and in most cases you have already tried [...]

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Saumitri Choudhury

You want your product to succeed? Tell the user what it is, clearly.

16. March 2009, by Saumitri Choudhury

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(From my blog at Coffeeagain…) Successful products have many notable attributes. One, however, is most significant - the ability to clearly say to the user what it is. A productivity tool needs to be recognizable as one. A social networking site has to say that it is so. A forum has to look like a forum. Ambiguity [...]

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Saumitri Choudhury

Successful Products have Life - an Energy Theory

12. March 2009, by Saumitri Choudhury

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(From my blog at Coffeeagain…) Do successful products have “life” ? I know this might sound crazy but let’s explore the possibilities. Life can be defined by an “energy” that enables an object to have the unique capacity to act on its surroundings, react to it, connect to-and-between other objects around it and facilitate and enable that [...]

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Saumitri Choudhury

Crowdsourcing with CAUTION !!

10. March 2009, by Saumitri Choudhury

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(From my blog at coffeeagain…) A lot is being said about “crowdsourcing” almost everyday, and more and more entrepreneurs are jumping onto the crowdsourcing bandwagon. There is however, need for caution. Just as the banking and financial services industry in the US jumped on the sub-prime lending bandwagon leading to the crisis we face in the [...]

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