Software Development — 3 comments
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Jan 09
We have an announcement to make… What? No, stop that. It’s not a baby. We are ‘releasing’ the private beta of our website, MeltingFood.
Taking advice from Pierre Francois, the elevator pitch for our website is, “it’s like Facebook, but for food” (just the trusted network part of Facebook – not everything like, ahem, stalking, that comes with social networking sites). But no, this post is not an invitation to join the site – it’s almost the opposite.
Although we do have dreams of extending our 2-person alpha user-base, we’ve made a decision to limit the number of new users to a couple per week starting with whomever happens to be visiting. But if people want to join your site, why restrict them?
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Software Development — No comments
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Jan 09
I recently attended my first coding dojo – which was essentially the first time I’d been involved in programming something with others since, well, my university days.
A coding … what? Something Japanese – martial arts sounding. On being invited to this event I attempted to figure out what it was I’d been invited to, but first it gets worse. On the mailing list where this event is organised, I discovered that since no-one had volunteered to do it Kata style, we’d be doing a Randori Dojo. Upon reading the associated link I added Fishbowl discussions to the list of things I have no idea about – I’m sure you can imagine what a long list this has become through my lifetime.
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Business Analysis — No comments
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Nov 08
Two weeks ago, I attended an IIBA UK Chapter meeting where Michael Brown introduced us to social styles. We had to fill in a questionnaire, which told us whether we were Amicable, Expressive, Analytical or Drivers. Shaking my head, I wondered which consultants were overpaid to create another 4×4 matrix. But really, I’m a sucker for all these psychometric tests, and found the social style tool to be more interesting than I expected.
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Business Analysis — No comments
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Oct 08
And I can’t either. You’ve got to face the facts – as a business analyst, no one is going to read your documentation because of your poetic commentary, your witty explanations or your inspired diagrams. At most, people might read it because they have to. So why do we get so attached to our masterpieces?
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General Ramblings — No comments
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Oct 08
Seth Godin’s free eBook is out. It’s a collection of case studies about tribes, which also happens to be the title of his new book. See my contribution, ‘Power to the Players’, about Steve Johnson and the Geelong Football Club.
Business Analysis — No comments
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Oct 08
A month ago, a talented member of our project team (no, not me) got the business people, developers and everyone in between to agree to a simple, elegant solution to a business problem. This week, all that hard work was undone. We’ve now got signoff on a much more complex solution – we need to do four calculations and one of these calculations is not like the others. So why does this bother me so much? Not because it creates more work (this is one time where laziness cannot afford to win out), but because it sets alarm bells ringing in my head.
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