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Put customers first and everything else follows
Put customers first and everything else follows from AGILE IN ACTION by simonbaker@think-box.co.uk (sjb140470) W Edwards Deming said something like: The real purpose of a company is not to make money, but to create customers who are so pleased that they will continue to buy products. Don’t fixate on sales figures and profits. Get your…
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My Second CMMI L2 Appraisal
Here are the lessons I have learned from my second CMMI L2 appraisal, not all of them are technical: 1) Let actions speak about you and don’t speak about yourself; doings are more respectable than sayings. Most people hate who speak much about themselves. 2) Dictatorship: If you are a team leader and unable to…
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NetBeans Visual Web Pack 5.5
I was dreaming of an open source Java development tool that let Website programming much easier and mostly visual, this will help juniors and beginners to start developing applications faster. I was dreaming of something like .Net environment, or the Borland DELPHI, but open source of course. I am very happy to say that tool…
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Task Coach, Gaim (Pidgin), and Subversion Feeds
Task Coach Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do consist of several activities. Task Coach…
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Download Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Download Wikipedia Encyclopedia Do you know that it is possible to download the entire Wikipedia Encyclopedia to your computer and use it offline. See the click above. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Saving YouTube Videos
How To Rip Audio from YouTube Videos Directly from Youtube – The FLV Online Converter at Vixy.net can take Youtube Video URLs and provide you an MP3 audio file of the YouTube video [via]. Extract Audio from FLV files – If the Youtube Video is on your hard-disk as an FLV video file, try the…
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New Releases of Open Source Projects
Dimdim Dimdim is the Open Source web conferencing company. With Dimdim you can show Presentations, Applications and Desktops to any other person over the internet without installing anythign on the Attendee side. You can chat, show your webcam and talk with others in the meeting. TCExam 4.0.011 Released! TCExam [http://www.tcexam.com] is a Web-based Assessment Software…
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Boot Your Computer Faster
My machine is very slow especially at startup, many tools uses my tray and they provide no way to delete. Even if I tried to uninstall, some refused! Here how to get rid of them, at least the annoying. Open Start Menu, in the Run editor, type RegEdit.exe and hit enter. (very long way to…
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No More Quality Initiatives
This post is copied from: http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/FeaturedBlogEntries/NoMoreQualityInitiatives.html About 6 month’s back we [Microsoft Visual Studio Team System] hosted a meeting of our customer advisory council. This is a hand picked group of people who help to steer our product. They all know who they are, so I don’t need to name names. Many of them read…
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JSPWiki 2.4, a Much Improved Wiki
Today I tried JSPWiki 2.4, it is much improved version, here is a brief of some of the new security features: Wiki-level and page-level privilege control. Security can be applied to individual users as well as to entire groups. Authentication: simple XML file-based, database-based, container-managed and custom authentication modules can be used. Authorization: security policies…
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Google Desktop Software Pack
Google Pack (http://pack.google.com/) is a free software you can add to your Desktop PC, it includes the following: Google Photos Screensaver: A screen saver that can show images from your local desktop images, Picasa Web Albumes, or any photo feed from the Internet. This is really amazing, while your screen saver is working, you can…
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Stop Complaining and Improve Your Opportunities
“He never appreciates my work! He said that my work can be done by someone inexperienced with the same quality, I can’t continue work with him!”, my friend said. He was talking about his boss. I asked, “do you want to resign?”, He answered “I can’t, nowadays jobs are hard to find. Before my current…
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10 Practical Tips in Applying CMMI 1.2 L2
Here are my tips on practical implementation of CMMI as I experienced in my first appraisal: 1) In CMMI 1.2 PP (Project Planning), you have to create Project Plan, however the GP (Generic Practice) 2.2 require you to “Plan the Process”. It sounds like you have to create a plan to create the project plan.…
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CMMI 1.2 Level 2+3 Practices Summary (PDF)
I want to create practice summery for CMMI 1.2 especially for L2 and L3. After some googling, I found it athttp://www.processgroup.com/condensed-cmmi1p2-v1.pdf See final CMMI 1.2: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/06.reports/06tr008.html From ahm507.blogspot.com
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My Blog: Favoring to be User Friendly Than to be Search Engine Friendly
In my post 10 Tips to Improve Your Blog and Website, I suggested to have a summery of your post and the rest to appear after user click on it. This will be very useful in search ranking by search engines such as Google, but will annoy many users. Especially while I am using Google…
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JTrac, a flexible Issue Tracking System
I found a good issue tracking software, what I like in this tool is its ability to create custom workflows, custom fields and assign permissions to it. You can see complete history, get email notifications, and attach files to issues. You have also a good search and a dashboard with summery of all projects. I…
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JSPWiki Wiki Engine
JSPWiki is an open source wiki engine that enables a simple content website which any user can add or edit pages. The system supports authentication and authorization optionaly. By default it uses files system to save its data, so the setup and configuration of it is extremely easy. Also it has templates and many other…
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What’s with ‘expected practices’ and can’t I use an alternative?
Dear Jeff, I attended the Introduction to CMMI 1.2 course, I learned that the goals only are mandatory and practices are expected. Last week I attended a formal appraisal, we mapped each practice to a direct evidence and indirect evidence, so in reality the practices are taken as mandatory. In order to skip some practices…
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Print to PDF Printer
PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDF files from nearly any Windows application. Download from:http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator Tip: You can use PDFCreator to save webpage into pdf files, if the webpage is very wide, you can print as landscape, or select A3 paper size, or even select custom page size with any size, see the side…
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16 Critical Software Practices
The Software Program Managers Network (SPMN) has developed this package of materials to assist program managers and others involved in software development in implementing 16 identified critical software practices that, when correctly put in place, will improve your bottom line measures–time to fielding, quality, cost, predictability, and customer satisfaction. The items are Risk, Cost, Metrics,…