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Stop Calling over the Cubicle Wall | Web 2.0, Community & Virtual Reference
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Web 20, Community and Virtual Reference. Musings about personal experiences, ideas from the best Web 2.0 books, and how they pertain to community Websites. Laquo; Adding Hot-off-the-Line Freshness to a Wiki. Stop Calling over the Cubicle Wall. March 15, 2010 by Michael Todd Ritchey. Jason Fried, co-founder of 37Signals, says that American employees need to reduce interruptions. And there are certain technologies that can help. The most telling aspect of Jason’s post is his assertion that unplanned ...
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Musings about Software Development ...: November 2008
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Musings about Software Development . Saturday, November 22, 2008. Certified Scope Managers (CSM) Alleviate Customer Stress on Software Projects. Read to the end of this post for a free webinar offer Dec. 3, 2008 -. Introducing a new professional job role that we are standardizing in Europe through the European Certificates Association - the. Certified Scope Manager (CSM). In software development there's different players involved and also a far bigger investment at stake, yet many customers have relied f...
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Musings about Software Development ...: February 2009
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Musings about Software Development . Thursday, February 19, 2009. Industry Journal Invitation to "Premiere 100 IT Leaders Conference" - Caution! Have you ever been invited to a party and then later un-invited? Well, something like this happened to me earlier in the week. The journal management had invited me as their guest - why would someone need to approve me? Has anyone experienced a similar situation? Wishing you continued optimism - even on the most depressing of newsdays! Posted by Carol Dekkers.
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Musings about Software Development ...: The more things change... the more they stay the same
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Musings about Software Development . Monday, January 26, 2009. The more things change. the more they stay the same. This continuing trend -. Headlines from 2003 declared job hunting woes were in full swing back then - has been going on for years - albeit not in as dramatic as today - but the situation is not strikingly new. It's just taken us the aggregation of a pile of small things (and big things such as the Wall Street collapse) to realize the full gravity of the situation. So what happens next?
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Musings about Software Development ...: December 2008
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Musings about Software Development . Monday, December 8, 2008. Function Points are NOT an Estimating Model. It continually amazes me that there is such confusion in the marketplace and in industry about function points (FPA) and their role in estimating the cost or effort associated with a software development project. First and foremost, Function Points are NOT an estimation model. Note: for a basic primer on IFPUG Function Points, send me an email. One measure of size. The same is true when we consider...
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Musings about Software Development ...: Industry Journal Invitation to "Premiere 100 IT Leaders Conference" - Caution!
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Musings about Software Development . Thursday, February 19, 2009. Industry Journal Invitation to "Premiere 100 IT Leaders Conference" - Caution! Have you ever been invited to a party and then later un-invited? Well, something like this happened to me earlier in the week. The journal management had invited me as their guest - why would someone need to approve me? Has anyone experienced a similar situation? Wishing you continued optimism - even on the most depressing of newsdays! Posted by Carol Dekkers.
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The Grand Illusion of online… Who are We? | The Dekkers Report...
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Join Carol Dekkers on the Journey to Lifelong Happiness and Fulfillment as a career woman, mother, friend, wonder woman…. The Dekkers Report…. The Grand Illusion of online… Who are We? Humanity has always struggled with the question: Who am I and where do I fit in the world? Today, with the “Grand illusion of online connectivity,”. It’s so much harder to figure out what the world thinks of us. You might say, who cares? And judged we are – 24 x 7 – no matter if we recant, remove, erase the wor...I’v...
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Musings about Software Development ...: October 2008
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Musings about Software Development . Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Offshoring Onshore - 9 Critical Lessons for Multi-Cultural Contracting. Recently, I had the unusual (for my company at least) experience of working for an India-based, US domiciled corporation on a short term contract. It was a great learning experience in many ways, and I'd recommend that the following lessons learned are critical to success when working with cultural differences:. Know that gender and ethnicity biases do and will occur -...
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National Offline Day – August 3, 2014 | The Dekkers Report...
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Join Carol Dekkers on the Journey to Lifelong Happiness and Fulfillment as a career woman, mother, friend, wonder woman…. The Dekkers Report…. National Offline Day – August 3, 2014. I traveled back from London, UK to Toronto last Friday, May 16 after a week of working, and I was dismayed to read the headline article in the Daily Mail about a recent study linking heavy internet to negative outcomes for our youth (click on the image that follows or the link beneath it to read the article.). 8211; no textin...
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Is it just me or do we thrive on missed connections? | The Dekkers Report...
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Join Carol Dekkers on the Journey to Lifelong Happiness and Fulfillment as a career woman, mother, friend, wonder woman…. The Dekkers Report…. Is it just me or do we thrive on missed connections? I’m old school and seemingly a dinosaur today… I like intelligent one-on-one conversations, phone calls that connect, seeing people in person, in other words, connecting on a personal level. Does anyone else still value these things? Is not communicating the new societal norm? As an extrovert who works from home...
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