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Use Cases: a Soliloquy Upon Thee.

Posted on: Sunday, July 8th, 2007 in: Project Management

Use Cases are SEXY.
Use Cases are DYNAMIC and HOT.
Use Cases ROCK.
Use Cases set my loins ABLAZE!
You will never hear anyone say any of those things.
Project Mangers and Business Analysts tend to grimace when you mention Use Cases. Use Cases can be tedious to write, if not downright painful.
As much as PMs and BAs cringe at [...]

1-800-GOOG-411 “The first one’s free…”

Posted on: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 in: Other

It is a service worth mentioning, just in case you are not aware of it.
If you have a cell phone and have ever called 411, you know that they wind up charging you - what, a couple bucks for the call?
Google has a service in Beta that provides for free 411 calls. 1-800-GOOG-411 connects you [...]

1-800-GOOG-411 “The first one’s free…”

Posted on: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 in: Other

It is a service worth mentioning, just in case you are not aware of it.
If you have a cell phone and have ever called 411, you know that they wind up charging you - what, a couple bucks for the call?
Google has a service in Beta that provides for free 411 calls. 1-800-GOOG-411 connects you [...]

The Define Phase

Posted on: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 in: Project Management

Every major PM methodology that I am aware of: PMI (Initiation and Planning phases), Prince2 (Starting, Initiating and Planning), RUP (the Rational Unified Process calls it “Inception“) and even the Microsoft Solutions Framework (Envisioning) has a “Define” phase of some variety. They call it by different names, but the point of the project’s Define phase [...]

ASK.COM - 3D Search… What’s the Deal?

Posted on: Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 in: Other

ASK.COM is launching a new form of search engine; it is a search engine system they have dubbed “3D” and has a unique approach to furnishing internet users with search results.
If you search on Gwen Stefani, for example, take a look at what you get: Search Results for ASK.COM
If you use Google, you are familiar [...]