BPOS and external sources
By the moment, if you want to develop a MS-SharePoint application on BPOS environment you cannot perform connections with sources outside of the BPOS cloud. Is it right??
New method for reading e-mails
The other day I ping my boss via ST saying that he had a delay on an important sign off for one of my activities. He literally told me: “Send me an e-mail everyday till I reply you.” 😀 After 8 days, the e-mail was replied.
Why Lotus Notes will die and Cobol will survey?
Just some notes to be read on future. Lotus Notes will die because: The volumes capacities that the companies require cannot be stored by LN. The workflows these applications manage are being moved There are so much companies that are migrating to Exchange. There are not big new customers on LN since some years. What … Read more
Test Strategy
I have been doing a test strategy (or test plan) document for a project. It has been a funny exercise to help the project manager to do it. I like project management activities and take care of things like this now that I do not manage projects officially is something that makes me be happy. … Read more
Business Needs, where are they?
During these last 2 months I have done 5 proposals, 3 business cases, and some presentations to the customer attending some potential needs they have. The result? Zero contracts. Last week an old database were causing problems on production due to a change on the amount of redundant users they now are enabling. We have a … Read more
Judge people by their feet, not their mouth
3M chief warns Obama over business regulation. George Buckley, chief executive and chairman of 3M: “judge people by their feet, not their mouth” http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd9b4100-429b-11e0-8b34-00144feabdc0.html?referrer_id=yahoofinance&ft_ref=yahoo1&segid=03058#axzz1FFSfnQ3Y Regulation on the chemical industry is business as usual. Depending of the type of measure, there are companies agreed with those initiatives, there are others than no. For those they reject … Read more
Creating a value chain through the needs
Client has needs, the most important thing is detect the ones that they really are willing to invest on them. For sure I have not that all that information. But there are ways to work on this. If you get the 100% of these “needs”, the client is aware of some of them, but there … Read more
Help others sometimes has counterproductive effects
I manage different teams and for me it’s essential to understand the way the things happens on each project or service. The reason is easy, later I have to go to the client and manage situations in the right way. To be in front of the client, understand the situation and be able to provide … Read more
Business Intelligence Site in SharePoint 2010
The BI site in SharePoint 2010 provides you reports, monitor key performance indicators and allows you to create dashboards that provide a consolidated view of business data. The business problem that my client requests me is to allow the end-user to provide feedback to the SQL database. There are about 50 fields that are updated … Read more
Smoke Computing?
Cloud computing? smoke computing? Take care, there are so much people selling smoke computing out there.