Professional help with your CV - are the costs worth it?
July 3, 2008
At Arras we have a little service we’re really proud about - our careers clinic - basically for £10 for one our four nominated charities we spend 30 minutes helping project... Read more...
Listing: Great Ways to Make Effectively Use of Your Holiday
June 25, 2008
The full length version of the lead article from Tipoffs, June 2008: Everybody enjoys lists. OK, maybe not everybody. But for the most part, listing is effective, stimulating and an easy manner to accumulate and evaluate ideas. And when they come in a... Read more...
The Problem with Performance Reviews
June 7, 2008
Probably everyone accepts that a business rarely has the same priorities during an extended period when performance objectives apply, whether it’s 6 months, 12 months, or some other duration, right? Unless you’re in a very long-established... Read more...
Everything I Know about Management I Learned as an Orchestra Conductor
June 5, 2008
There’s been an oft-repeated observation that there’s a high incidence of classically trained musicians in the software industry. I’ve seen this myself; it’s not hard to identify enough people for a jam session or chamber ensemble... Read more...
Moving Beyond the Triple Constraints
June 5, 2008
Dave Garrett recently wrote on the concepts expressed by Aaron Shanhar in his book, Reinventing Project Management. The gist is that the common triple-constraint model of managing cost, schedule, and scope is not enough. As I like to put it and in Goldratt’s... Read more...
40 Years Ago
June 3, 2008
40 years ago this December, something extraordinary was offered to us. It became known as the “mother of all demos” (MOAD): Douglas Engelbart showed the world what collaboration could look like in this new world empowered by the technology... Read more...
Success Stories of Offshore Software Development
May 30, 2008
The most important piece of your software requirements is describing how you want your software to behave when your customers use it. It is the use cases and user stories – the sequence of steps the various kinds of your users will carry out in going... Read more...
The Six Offshoring Engagement Models
May 29, 2008
Selecting the right kind of engagement model with your offshore programmers (or the company where they work) is the best way to ensure you get more dynamic engineers that will deliver your software with the level of quality you would expect from your... Read more...
Are Your Programmers Dynamic or Transactional?
May 28, 2008
Offshoring of software development is written off by some as not workable. Many have shared offshoring nightmares and horror stories in articles and blog postings. A recent survey says small company CIOs say they have little interest in increasing their... Read more...
Why Outsourcing Fails, Even with Good Project Management
May 27, 2008
The programming press and IT journals are full of stories about the failure of software outsourcing. The statistics are sobering. Less than 50% of outsourcing meets financial objectives. The outsourcing of many business processes besides software development... Read more...