Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category

How not to write a proposal – Part 1

I’ve been writing a lot of anti-patterns and “not to do” code. I’ve kind of exhausted out my “Code You Should Not Be Writing” series because I’ve completed this project and moved on to another project. So this will be another new series of some interesting quirks I’ve encountered reading proposals, reports, requirements specification documents, [...]

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Software Engineering Empirical Discoveries

A few days ago, Microsoft Research released a news article, “Exploding Software-Engineering Myths“, debunking several software engineering myths and discovered/confirmed a few beliefs using actual empirical data.
The biggest problem for several researchers and software engineers were  a lot of their hypothesis and conjectures are based on anecdotal and personal experience. These were seen to be true throughout [...]

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Line of Code(LOC) Counter For VSTS 2005

Microsoft IT and Microsoft Research released a Line Of Code (LOC) counter that counts the number of lines of code in your software development project to determine the size and status of your project, predicting system defects, providing measurements of productivity and quality, accessing code stability, and using these metrics to measure the success of [...]

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Microsoft Solutions Framework v3.0 and v4.0 Resources

If anyone realise yet, I’m bored and tired. So I’m just searching stuff to read.
Here’s a link of resources on MSF v3.0 and v4.0(still under beta).
MSF v3.0 Resources
MSF v4.0 Resources
I’m sure you guys will benefit more from the v4.0 resource. I’ve been trying to find stuff about v4.0 and this guy’s all I’ve got.
If [...]

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Successful Product/Solution Analysis

Stupid blogger destroyed my writing on it. And I’m too lazy to write again. So I’m just going to sum everything up.
Analysing how a successful product/solution become successful is basically what I’ve been thinking about the last few days.
To have a successful product/solution, you’ll need to have a solid Vision for it. Vision to bring [...]

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Product Analysis

What makes a good product or solution? It’s not your idea, it’s your vision for the product or solution. Here’s what I’ve been thinking lately.
There are alot of very wonderful and fantastic products, solutions, applications out there that alot of people do not know of. Why is that so? Because they lack the vision to [...]

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Business Clients and how they actually think

I just met up with a very business-like client who’s the total non-technology savvy person, and I must say it has been a very fruitful experience to understand the thinking of how non-techno people think.
Basically just drawing back on my previous blog, the idea of a User-Role-Centric Solution and Approach to the problem. Apparently it [...]

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Project Lamenting and User-Role-Centric Solution

For those of you who know about my new project, I’ve been so damn busy working on it. This client basically wants me to come up with all the business logic and specifications of what SHE wants, but DOESN’T tell me what SHE wants, so therefore I have to predict and be a fortune-teller to [...]

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