Six Sigma handbook, Pyzdek & Keller

The cover says: “a complete guide for green belts, black belts and managers at all levels”. I agree, it’s a complete guide for the main aspects of Six Sigma. I have done internal training courses in my company related to Six Sigma: focused on DMAIC, DMADV, DFSS, and other tools. This book goes in deep … Read more

Airbus round aircraft

Airbus does around 6000 patents every year. This time, they patented an aircraft with a round space in the middle. This represents a complete different organization of the passengers, the way the access to the seats, the shape of the food carts, emergency exits… Expected benefits: save money during the manufacture phase, saving gas… By … Read more

SLDC tools

For managing the environments on a software development project we all organize environments and tools to automate the update, deployment, organization of the code within the project. Some of the more popular tools: Eclipse IDE, for writing code. Git, as Source Code Management System (SCM) to enable the developers to manage releases of code, etc … Read more

Prestashop, multistore

I am trying to configure a multistore on Prestashop 1.6.0.8. I create the new environment, I configure the virtual address and I can hide modules for this specific store. I can also create categories and products. My issue: I cannot visualize the store, it only shows the top layer. There is not “body” 🙁 I … Read more

DataLossDB

We all never know enough about security, so spending a little time looking over this website is always good. It’s common to listen a lot of news about security alerts in the form of newly found vulnerabilities. DataLossDB has been around for a long time as the data they hold testifies, it is a record … Read more

CV format, what is the right one?

The preference about the format, and the content of the CV is something that depends on the person reading it. Each recruiter has its preferences. Recruiters receive tonnes of CVs and they discard them quickly. This becomes more complex when you learn that some recruiters do not like CVs. A realistic scenario could be: Received … Read more

Average lifespan of S&P companies

Some areas of economy are more predictable than expected. Look at this graphic: The average life of the companies is decreasing. I guess that if we filter this data by IT companies the trend is more aggressive. I think about how the IT market is evolving, the impact of massive growth of small companies that … Read more

SAP from Unix to Linux

Reduce TCO again as reason to perform actions on a system. This is the reason to move from Unix to Linux. I learned about the project approach, and it’s already industrialized: Deliver the profile parameters of SAP environment. Export data using the export SAP standard R3Load. Request the software SAP (same version as original one). … Read more

Walterfall Vs Agile

And vice verse, because in some software areas Agile is becoming the primary methodology to build applications and pieces of software, because the cycle of delivery of versions is shorter and shorter and short cycles of delivery is what the market is demanding. They are different things itself, so we can do thousand of lists … Read more

NYC meet-ups

This week in NYC I had the opportunity to attend different meet-ups. Two of them were related to hardware, the other was related to lean management. I’m not an expert in hardware, but these two were the ones with better speakers and the quality of the speech was amazing. One of them was NY Hardware … Read more