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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
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