Reading to learn

I use to learn with the resources I have available. One of them is too simple and effective, and it is just read good examples of the real life. When I was developer I used to read code. When I was analyst I used to read requirement documents, function analysis, and technical analysis. During my … Read more

Interesting week

So much meetings, write documents between meeting slots, good learning about tools and solutions I didn’t know, good advance in the main projects we have, some administrative staff solved and some team conflicts gone. I should be happy, but I’m just tired. First time it didn’t work so much well, but second time it was … Read more

Licence to Operate for project management

License to operate is a quality mechanism for improving aspects such driving, performance, delivery… I have seen these LTO rules in aeronautic industry, where the #hours, people and effort is huge and where the Cost of lack of quality is high. They have training courses to reinforce knowledge (earning points); people losing the license have … Read more

SharePoint templates

Coming back to SharePoint world after one month without thinking on it. Some necessary research about resources that potentially can enable us to advance in the construction of real solutions for our client. Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb407286.aspx The most interesting for me are: Manufacturing Process Management The Manufacturing Process Management application template helps teams to model and … Read more

Belbin team roles

The concept of the Dr. R. M. Belbin comes from the recognition that people contribute to a team in a different ways. He described two roles the “Functional Role” and the “Team Role”. The Functional Role describes your experience, your technical skills, your job or the department you head, whereas your Team Role describes a … Read more

I’m late but…

I have been working on an opportunity where I’m really late. We are not going to win this one, but this work is helping me to move some contacts and being recognized by the customer as a vendor that can provide different things apart of the standard things we deliver. So, it’s not summing up … Read more

Innovation, improvement culture

For the customer I work, innovation is more related to an “improvement culture” than other thing. If the its IT environment is improving, they say we are doing daily innovation. They believe that new ideas come from the work on the ground, people doing daily activities and thinking about how to improve the applications, some … Read more

SOPA & PIPA

SOPA and PIPA represent two bills in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate respectively. SOPA is short for the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” and PIPA is an acronym for the “Protect IP Act.” (“IP” stands for “intellectual property.”) In short, these bills are efforts to stop copyright infringement committed by … Read more