Captain Obvious

This week one of the team mates, were sending mails ensuring details of a project definition. He finalized the e-mails signing as “Captain Obvious” excusing about he was asking for easy facts but that in his position he needed to know the written answer. I was copied in some of these mails and I replied … Read more

Informal learning

I have found this picture that illustrates something that happens since lot of time in learning. From the different pictures, I have extracted this one, that is not just time to learn, it’s time to be with your colleagues:

What a client looks for

As part of my learning process I just want to write a brief list of basicthings: Be prepared, Demonstrate initiative, Demonstrate a special interest in me, Make me feel confortable, Give me ideas and suggestions, Provide evidence for your assertions, Show an understanding for my role, Let me acknowledge the opportunity, Give me options, Add … Read more

How the presentation was?

Today I have assisted to a typical lesson learned that you can read in thousand books. The agenda of the meeting was the presentation of 2 technical solutions for a given business process. The workbench meetings with the client when the solutions were being worked given us some information about what was the preferences of … Read more

2010 Content Technology Predictions

This is an interesting article I want to remind about Content management trends for 2010: http://www.cmswatch.com/Blog/1760-2010-Content-Technology-Predictions Some of the points are interesting and make sense, some others are not relevant. It’s just my oppinion, Other link to remind: http://www.cmswatch.com/Blog/1783-Oracle-and-SharePoint

End user resistance to change, real life? or just a joke

You are working in big application project, some months studying requirements, some others planning and developing them after the proofs of concept with identified and approved key users. Then, you develop the solution during some other months and finally end-user acceptance test is approved by your customer. You refine the last details of the migration … Read more

Guess who?

You are in a new position in a new client, you need to know who is the people who take product decisions, who are the project stoppers, which other stakeholders you need to take into account in order to obtain middleware approvals for virtual environments deployments, how much time you need to tell to capacity … Read more

FEL-Phase of a project

Today I have learned a new term of something I know since long time: Front-End Loading (FEL) of a project, it’s the process by which a project team translates its marketing and technological opportunities into capital projects. In other words, during this FEL phase, the questions of Why, What, When, How, Where and Who are … Read more