It occurred to me that a basic effor/time saving principle of agile project management is that you don’t try to plan everything up front, because you don’t need to!
The fact that for example getting a site live ready by a certain date requires a change to the URL pointing means you only need to worry about it [...]
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Using dependencies in agile project style management
Search the net + raise 5 cents for Dr. King’s Memorial
Did you know that you could support Dr. King’s dream with every Internet search you do? The Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation has now made this possible with the creation of the MLK Toolbar! Every time you perform a search using the MLK toolbar, five cents will be donated to [...]
MacBook Pro has glossy LED
Hanging out for a few mins at the Regent Street Apple Store, it’s nice and empty in the morning. Using a MacBook Pro right now, with the following spec: 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 17″ display + SuperDrive. (320GB 5400-rpm hard drive + 4GB DDR3 SDRAM). And the little sign says it’s ‘Available with glossy [...]
For and against the cloud
For: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer: “We’ll need a new operating system. Just as we have an operating system for the PC, for the phone and for the server, we need a new operating system that runs in the internet. I bet we’ll call it Windows something. We’re going to announce it in four weeks. [...]
London, the original robot battlefield
Did you know that London was the original robot battlefield, using radar unit produced by the Radiation Lab at MIT, creating automated anti-aircraft fire to bring down German V-1 flying bombs? Terminator must have spoke cockney, originally, albeit designed by American Hendrik Wade Bode?
iPhone early adopters don’t include IT folk?
Apple chaos theory by ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett — I got a fairly lukewarm response to my excitement over Oracle putting applications on the iPhone. That should be no surprise to readers of Fortune which also poured cold water on the idea that iPhone’s are going to be the next big thing in corporate gadgets: Companies [...]
Cuil vs Yuil
Which one do you like best? The new cuil search engine, or this yuil (yahoo-based cuil look alike?)
Finally a Boyd conference
Col. John Boyd video & conference. I’ve had a few discussions on the 4th GW subject, + Boyd’s OODA Loop which is a great tool for organisational cultural change which I used purely on a personal level at the NHS.
Father of the PC spreadsheet
Just confirmed today that the father of the first PC spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin, is a member of the ICAEW’s IT Counts. Here he is looking very 1978.