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Defined by CollabNet ” Scrum is a management framework for incremental product development using one or more cross-functional, self organizing team of about seven people each. Scrum provides a structure of roles, meeting, rules and artifacts.” By definition,Agile is a a mind set, as well as, a set of engineering practices for rapid delivery of … Continue reading PERSPECTIVE: Agile in not a project management methodology
Enterprise applications must be cynical. Cynical software expects bad things to happen and is never surprised when they do. Cynical software doesn’t even trust itself from Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
Customers usually ask: how much? and how soon? It is inevitable to have answers for those questions. Especially when bidding for projects, Project Managers usually need to estimate even when they have no complete requirements document and no signed-off specifications. Even for internal projects, it is usually hard to get senior management commitment without having … Continue reading PERSPECTIVE: Agile and Project Estimations
A well-organized 6 pages case study published by Best Management Practices illustrating using ITIL and PRINCE2 together in setting up a service desk in an offshore site. Current service desk was reaching capacity and expansion in the current location was not physically possible or cost-effective. The new service desk should follow ITIL procedures. The case … Continue reading REVIEW: Using ITIL and Prince2 Together
“Avoid biting off more than you could chew, manage projects by stages” Best Management Practices: Using ITIL and PRINCE2 Together
“Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance”
To setup Django on Eclipse on Windows XP perform the following steps: Install python V2.7. Make sure not to install V3 as Django is not compatible with this V3
Aditya Agarwal, Director of engineering at facebook, gave a very interesting presentation in May 28th at QCon illustrating Facebook architecture. Aditya stressed on making it quickly to the market and not to over engineer. “Scalability is a good problem to have” as stated by Aditya. Statistics: 1. users spend 8 billion a minute per day … Continue reading REPHRASE: Scale at Facebook
To set up django on Eclipse on Kubuntu 10.04, perform the following steps Install django: installing django is very staright forward and details can be found here Install Eclipse: Kubuntu is shipped with KPackageKit as package manager, unfortunately, if you tried to install Eclipse using KPackageKit installation of the PyDev (Django Add on for eclipse) … Continue reading GUIDE: setting up django on Eclipse on Kubuntu 10.04
Definitely, a great step towards having more dynamics in the Jordanian IT idle community. A step that should have started many years ago in a country like Jordan, where there are a lot of IT geeks, talents and experts. Big thanks to all who worked hard to get this all together. As a start the … Continue reading EVENT: Amman Tech Tuesday May 4, 2010
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