Category Archives: project management

work analysis

June 11, 2007 – 2:54 am

The concept of the document is simple enough, but I believe that it is important to consider all areas of project slip when considering adding new work. Essentially the customer needs to be aware that having project critical resources considering new work will in itself introduce project slip.

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Project management through TeX

February 26, 2007 – 9:44 pm

It occurred to me in a project meeting today, that CRs and Spec docs create a grand pain in the arse to manage and implement. There are a few issues, firstly that it is very difficult to follow change and secondly these documents are often not updated.
Anyhow, I figure a text based solution using something […]

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build

January 31, 2007 – 1:54 am

Builds can be used as a marker, to check where you are, if you have a proper defect reporting or testing suit in place.
These can be run nightly.

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Change Process

December 1, 2006 – 3:54 am

Was going to post this in our defect tracking system - bugtrack (I’ve used better, but BugTrack allows me to write cool XSL to process reports!). However, bugtrack systems shouldn’t be used to post opinions - so it goes here:
I was thinking after the last defect related to this particular CR, that the process could […]

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Development Environments

October 31, 2006 – 3:16 am

These should not be cumbersome - often development environments ignore the tools available or the majority of the experience in the team. I’ve worked on a project where we used Rational source control - I have no experience in this - which isn’t bad (and the product seems to offer functionality that would be very […]

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