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Looking for the % of COLA in India during the last few years, I found this curious survey. I want to remind it, and the behaviour of the cost of living around the world during these 2 hard years. The COLA in India has not being so high during this year due to the change … Read more
Dynamic Systems Development (or DSDM) is a method based on the assumption that nothing is perfect first time, but that 80% of the solution can be produced in 20% of the time it would take to produce the whole solution. It is highly iterative, all steps can be re-visited, therefore the current step need be … Read more
I’m now inmersed in a call for tender. The way to work on the call is answering the specific questions with no more than 3 pages. My main responsibility is manage the evolution of the works providing the resources and helping the team with the things they need. Other thing I do is review the … Read more
This week I received an e-mail from an old co-worker that is still working in the maintenance of applications that I used to create. In his e-mail he mentioned that once of the applications that I developed, when I used to be the only developer of a little division of the company is still running. … Read more
This weekend I was reading different articles about the financial problems appeared in Dubai. If you remember the what happened in Bangkok construction turmoil, then you know what I talk about. The interesting issue mentioned in some of the articles about the Dubai finance disruption is the way the communication has been performed. They provide … Read more
I have been working on Excel during these days and I have the problem that I didn’t know how to return multiple values from a lookup: some formula like VLookup but that it returns more than one value. I have found these very useful links http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/excel/HA012260381033.aspx http://www.mrexcel.com/articles/CSE-array-formulas-excel.php I have tried to resolve my problem using … Read more
This Abert Einstein’s phrase helped this week to discuss with one colleague while building a sales presentation. The main issue with the presentation was that the concept about what this presentation wants to show was not clear. Once the concept was understood, the model, value proposition… and all te other slides were easy to understand. … Read more
Are you a early person or a late person? I’m early person, so this is because I try to do all important things in the morning. Read and write are tasks that I use to perform in the first hours of the day. I make the most of time doing this. Second part of the … Read more
This period of inactivity is established to protect the IT infrastructure, application and/or other business activities from any change activity that may undermine its stability and operation. For instance, during Christmas that there is a lot of staff on holidays and each time more and more companies agree this type of stops. In addition service … Read more
I have been reviewing the client value cycle empathy guide used by our methodology, and one of the key elements they repeat and repeat is: “Understand the buying process, not the sales process.” Easy? Yes, but they remind you are going to forget it 🙂