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How I jump to my conclusions
November 2005 - Posts
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Jared M. Spool and Christine Perfetti catalogued the patterns they saw when they watched users search for their desired content. They concluded there are essentially 8 Types of Navigation Pages a user can run into, when searching content-rich sites: 1. Read More...
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"It seems no one is safe: Google is doing Wi-Fi; Google is searching inside books; Google has a plan for ecommerce. Of course, Google has always wanted to be more than a search engine. Even in the early days, its ultimate goal was extravagant: to organize Read More...
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This paper is a report on the presentation of a measurement plan which was developed to help a company satisfy the KPA of requirements management for the repeatable level, level two, of the CMM. SENG 623 Requirements Management Metrics Plan Report Read More...
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Joel Spolsky published a (first-draft) Reading List for a three year management training program. On the list are several of my favorites, like "The Mythical Man Month", "The inmates are running the Asylum", "Peopleware" and "Crossing the chasm". Several Read More...
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Nice new buzzwords and a post worth reading . The Kick Ass Curve describes the curve people go through with new products and services starting from the point where 'it sucks' ( Suck Threshold ) to the point where people become passionate ( Passion Threshold Read More...
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Value Centered Design recognizes that the point of our work is to generate value. And not just bottom line cost savings, or top line sales through new products. True value comes at the intersection of business goals and human needs: return on investment Read More...
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Testing the features of a product is precise job. But for testing all features of a product, serially executing all tests is not enough. As the Braidy Tester explains, any experienced tester knows that the interaction between features is where the gnarly Read More...
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Ray Ozzie is blogging again (on msn spaces). In his introductory post he references an old post from 2002 where he explained that he wanted to learn more about the medium, and that blogging might represent a new and more effective model of interaction Read More...
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Mike Cohn wrote on Estimating With Use-Case Points for the Methods & Tools newsletter. A had a previous post on a free book on Use-Case Points . Read More...
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Jacobson said the first fruits of his company's (Ivar Jacobson Consulting LLC, of Alexandria, Va.) relationship with Microsoft will be through the delivery of the Essential Unified Process (Essential UP, a simplified or lighter-weight alternative to RUP), Read More...
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Ivar Jacobson's presentation “ What CMMI cannot give you: good software ” features a short story about a Foolish Farmer and his Thirsty Cow. Jacobson uses this story to help illustrate a significant difference between bad processes and good Read More...
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There was a very cautious man who never laughed or cried. He never risked, he never lost, he never won nor tried. And when he one day passed away his insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, they claimed he never died. Don't let this happen Read More...
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The Geek Hierarchy by Lore Sjöberg Q: What about computer programmers, sysadmins, tech writers and so forth? A: Occupations didn't make it in, because in the author's experience they don't really matter. Java programmers who are into LARPing aren't seen Read More...
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"Every defect is a treasure, if the company can uncover its cause and work to prevent it across the corporation." - Kilchiro Toyoda, founder of Toyota An best practice in doing projects with RUP is understanding the problem before jumping to solutions. Read More...
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My blog is worth $0.01 . How much is your blog worth? At least it is an extra post (Hi Wouter!) Read More...
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Frank Schophuizen, currently working on the same project as I do, wrote an article on Configuration Management He distinguishes three types of configuration management: Configuration management of the deployment environment Configuration management of Read More...
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On his blog, Anthony Crain published his Ultimate RUP Quiz. The quiz consists of five questions . The first four questions are yes/no questions and the fifth is a pick choice A or B. These questions are NOT meant to be trick questions. The answers are Read More...
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CMMI is a heavy weight process (or not?) CMMI is there to burden the developer (or not?) CMMI just means more documentation (or not?) In Documentation <> Process Joel Semeniuk did a follow-up on an earlier blog post on which he received very interesting Read More...
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Ian Alexander's Reviews of Books on Requirements Engineering and Related Subjects has several of my all-time favorites, like the Mythical Man Month (Brooks), Effective Use Cases (Cockburn) and Structured Programming (Dijkstra), Designing the User Interface Read More...
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“Why doesn’t this work right? What am I supposed to do with this now?" World Usability Day , November 3, 2005, is for everyone who’s ever asked these questions. Be sure to read The secret of making things work on BBC news. How usable Read More...
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Lymer, Liu and Easterbrook published Experience in Using Business Scenarios to Assess COTS Components in Integrated Solutions The use a Scenario Framework (BSF) which is a variation of the scenario-based approaches in requirements engineering, to address Read More...
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In 2002, The Rational Edge published an article by Philippe Kruchten called A Software Development Process for a Team of One . It's an article well worth reading about a single person doing a 4-day project, showing that the principles behind RUP are universal Read More...
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