The Pop Can Pyramid
Filed Under Happy Numbers | 3 Comments
Features Do Not Exist (Only Benefits)
Filed Under Human Factors | 7 Comments
A bit of a rant, that we really need to quit thinking and speaking in terms of features, and start talking to our clients in terms of the benefits that they will gain.
Your New Process (Some Assembly Required)
Filed Under Software Process | 6 Comments
Software teams are continually looking to adopt and mutate their processes to help counteract their immediate needs and weaknesses. And I think we can all agree that different software processes have their strengths and weaknesses.
Therefore, it is only logical to say that the this equation holds true:
Process Strengths + Current Team Weaknesses […]
Tool Review: SlickEdit Tools
Filed Under Trade Tools | 2 Comments
Last week during my birthday giveaway, SlickEdit was kind enough to donate a copy of their product Slick Edit Tools for VS.NET. Of course, I was unable to keep my mitts off of it and I had to give it a test drive before I gave the license away.
First off, I am going to […]
Clients, Budgets, and The Credit Card Phenomenon
Filed Under Human Factors, Software Process | Leave a Comment
There are many big reasons why you want stakeholders involved in a project including: input, feedback, direction, and buy off. However, all projects have a single thing in common - budget.
When project owners get left in the dark (or sometimes keep a blind eye on purpose) they run the serious risk falling trap […]
And The Winner of Bamboo 2.0 + SlickEdit Tools Is…
Filed Under Announcements | 2 Comments
Guillermo Salas!
So how did I do the ticket raffle? Very sophisticated process…
1.) As each comment came in I added those tickets numbers to the pool. For example, the first comment was a twitter, so that person got tickets 1-10
2.) Opened up Excel and ran =RANDOMBETWEEN(1, 400) which yielded => 24
So that […]



