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Here are some noteworthy quotes and concepts I’ve come across this week.
Nancy Knettell, Agile development: Don’t forget the documentation. Great article. I’d actually begun to outline a post on this recently, but see no need for it now. I like …

(Updated post title, 10/25/07 21:15)

We’ve all been there. You don’t agree at all with a decision being made, but you fear that you are in the minority - if not the only one - in disagreement. Instead of prolonging debate, and risking raising the ire of others in the group, you concede. Instead of expressing your true thoughts on the matter, you feign agreement without consideration for the future consequences of not speaking up.
A few months ago, while in a business analyst training course, I learned about an interesting …

Recently, I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in some very interesting training sessions relating to business process re-engineering, and UML modeling. Now, I have long understood the value of use cases, but have never fully leveraged them or taken advantage of some of the added features inherent in tools designed specifically for UML modeling. In my experience, for the fully-dressed use case, I typically just use a MS Word template with tables. For the diagrams, I just use the UML functionality inherent in Visio.
Now that I’ve sat through some of …

As I’ve mentioned on this blog, I like to keep things as light and humorous as possible. That’s true in my personal life, and not markedly different in a professional environment. To me, keeping it light helps keep it in perspective.
Obviously, there is a time for seriousness, and it is important to maintain a level of professionalism and to know and respect limits. However, I’ve found that one of the best ways to maintain my own sanity and to help those with whom I work to do the same is …