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Recursive Directives: Iterative Process Abstracted

Posted on: Saturday, September 27th, 2008 in: Project Management

The classic model of inputs and outputs (as taught by PMI and just about every other PM school of thought in regard to larger project phases as opposed to a description of the environment of an SDLC) can be extended and simplified to allow for:

initial assessment (There are unique and very different artifacts and such [...]

Rapid Iterative Firing of Tracer Bullets

Posted on: Sunday, September 21st, 2008 in: Project Management

User Stories are very alluring to a contemporary PM, because the impulse to break them down into requirements is almost unavoidable and provides immediate meat to sink teeth into. In the more Agile-minded PM’s mind, there is the impulse to break User Stoies down into tasks and estimate against those tasks. You can start off [...]

Comments are Enabled Again

Posted on: Thursday, September 18th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

Okay, behave. Everything is backed up just in case WordPress lets me down again. I am going to launch a new site soon, so the whole Google blacklist fiasco will be a thing of the past.
I am even going to store my javascript in external files. The thing is going to be *clean*.
All my best,
Josh

Just-In-Time or Polymorhphic Process?

Posted on: Thursday, September 18th, 2008 in: Project Management

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The Just-In-Time philosophy minimizes waste. Championed by Toyota, the JIT approach aims to not only optimize process, but simultaneously reveal and strengthen weak links in the chain of process.
Polymorphic Process is something I made up just in time to write this (the phrase, anyhow). I am not sure that it makes sense. However, if [...]

UML Esoteric? I think not. SysML, maybe so.

Posted on: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 in: Project Management, Semantic Web, UML 2.0

Recently I heard someone I respect say that UML is not used that often in real scientific (I guess he was implying intelligent, though I know some DUMB scientists) efforts.
From UML.org’s nice article on Visual Modeling:
UML has become the lingua franca of software development, allowing engineers to exchange their designs freely. Nowhere is this better [...]