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During these last months one of the things I have discovered has been Tempo Programme, the European Commission framework to coordinate all the IT challenges develop for and by the EC. I have just giving a quick view to some of the documents that I needed to review discovering that there are so many processes … Read more
I’m so happy now, Yesterday we delivered a package about 32 kilos of papers that represent phisically the answer to the RFP we have been working since April. Last 10 weeks have been amaizing, it’s the first time I have enrolled a work like this and it means that I have learnt a huge amount … Read more
During my trip to Nepal and taking into account than then it was when I had some time to read. Since this trip I have read: Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), The naked mountain (Reinhold Messner), The locked room (Paul Auster) and now I have started Mr. Vertigo, written too by Paul Auster. I have enjoyed … Read more
I have enjoyed reading this phenomenom named “Parkinson’s Law“, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” Tomorrow I will use this articule in order to align some behaviours that are not helping the team. In addition, the second sense of the Parkinson’s law: “Data expands to fill the space available … Read more
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