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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 …

Just linking a good read on communication; particularly conversations.

The Practice of Leadership - Blog Archive - Resolving stuck conversations.. -

Conversation creates involvement, which generates the commitment. It’s commitment that ensures aligned action and an effective end result. Therefore, getting the conversations right is of critical importance.

Jonathan Miles: Fingerjig Typing Game
Fingerjig is a 6 minute game that tests your typing prowess. Words are randomly chosen from a dictionary of over 70,000. You must try to type them as quickly and accurately as you can!
The average score for Fingerjig is 476,983. If you can beat this then

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David’s Software Development Survival Guide: Undreamt Requirements
Interesting insight into 3 distinct types of requirements: Conscious Requirements - Problems that the new system must solve; Unconscious Requirements - Already solved by the current system; Undreamed of Requirements - Would be a …

Modern Analyst | The Community for Business & Systems Analysts
Modern Analyst is a community and resource portal for the business analyst, systems analyst, as well as other IT professionals involved in the business analysis or systems anaysis activites of software engineering.
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Meeting Management Made Easy
This article presents some useful tips for sound meeting management as well as providing references for where to find more help in managing your meetings better.
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Better Projects: Ethics in project management
Craig Brown discusses ethics in project work & encourages reflection on personal core values as well industry standard values and how they align with one’s project work.
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Change is Bad? Mistakes are Worse | Tyner Blain
Scott Sehlhorst takes on CNET over an article implying in a roundabout way that the reason Microsoft’s new Live e-mail platform has fizzled is that change is inherently a negative thing. He argues “[t]he whole change is bad argument is a red herring. The
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My links for 2007-04-06

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I’ve been doing a little research on Rapid Application Development (RAD) over the past few days as I may potentially need to employ it - or some modified form of it - on an upcoming project. Below are a couple of solid links describing what RAD is, and how it is best used.