flarg

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   by flarg 8y ago

   As a PM I remember the halcyon days when my management would actually request a formal estimate and I would then work with delivery teams to calculate an answer and then add the traditional 50 to 100 pc buffer because I knew they were full
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   by flarg 8y ago

   What worked for me... Punching myself very hard in the arm.
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   by flarg 8y ago

   Wireframes for UI design alongside UML for enterprise data models and process flows, and finally good old truth tables work best in my experience. They work to bridge the gap between business and development. You'll never get 100pc co
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   by flarg 8y ago

   Zoom does, long press the space bar to talk
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   by flarg 8y ago

   I think what you did is a subset of what we do when we build medical software products, it's called computer system validation.
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   by flarg 8y ago

   I've worked in waterfall and agile for 15 years, and the key lesson from Scrum is that it effectively exposes bad news early on. The scrum ceremonies do just that and nothing more. Once you get the bad news open and dealt with a lot of
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   by flarg 8y ago

   I PM an ML project for pharma for a moderate sized consultancy and we regularly use (or buy!) smaller organisations that have the products or expertise we need. Maybe approach a couple of consultancies with similar offerings in the market a
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   by flarg 8y ago

   I may be off base here, but you may want to consider figuring out how to optimize flow of work. Analyze common questions and where they came from in order identify specific areas of training to provide to the CS rep, to determine how to re
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   by flarg 8y ago

   Wow, that actually explains a lot of problems I have with the way my Indian team work. Thanks for the heads up!
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    by flarg 8y ago

    I guess it depends on if the event concerned only happens at one place, such as a clinical site visit, or many places, such as a global call
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    by flarg 8y ago

    FWIW - I've been working from home for maybe 10 years now and I personally don't have a problem with focus (even with a toddler shouting 'papa' very loudly every half hour :). But in all the jobs I've done there is
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    by flarg 8y ago

    I've used PlantUML for ages and that's good, but Sparx Enterprise Architecture is my goto these days because it works as a database of components as well as documentation authoring and publishing tool.
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    by flarg 8y ago

    I use this on a daily basis and it's pretty good but can't cope with fast speech or poor sound quality. For the price I don't expect more but it's not amazing.
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    by flarg 8y ago

    2000AD was at least as prophetic ... http://dreddalert.blogspot.co.ke/2014/01/judge-dredd-great-p...
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    by flarg 9y ago

    Apologies for the delay in replying. I use MS Project and an add-on called SSI Tools daily, both essential for CPM based project management. Also MS Outlook plus Clear Context for PIM and communications functionality. There's also Min
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    by flarg 9y ago

    By dating. Date English native speakers and you'll learn the subtle and contradictory parts of the language.
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    by flarg 9y ago

    Not at all; if you want to consume a lot and create a little then your thesis is right, but the desktop is king for creators. There are a slew of very mature Windows only software out there serving many fields of endeavour for which there
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    by flarg 9y ago

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/faces-project/
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    by flarg 9y ago

    I'm in the right business and Mulesoft hits the mark when your star devs leave and you're left with maintenance staff because it constrains the degree of complexity in the initial implementation. Obviously nothing that could not b
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    by flarg 9y ago

    As someone not even worthy of the status of a plumber, I quite agree. But the wonder of it all is that we can attend on the shoulders of giants so easily.
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    by flarg 9y ago

    It totally is a hog; but most of all you miss the tight integration with Jira/Confluence offered by Stride. But then Slack is a cool so it has that going for it
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    by flarg 9y ago

    I'm an older fart than you and as my remaining years drift away I just want to get things done and Slack helps with that like irc never did. Despite running Linux at home, I also like Jira, Confluence and MS Project at work for the sam
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    by flarg 9y ago

    We have a toddler and long for the simple joy of some quiet time in nature, so totally with you
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    by flarg 9y ago

    I wholly disagree with your criticism of the middle. The original article points to the cause of failure which was dismissal of SMEs prior to deployment. Almost all projects of this size are doomed to complexity overload but that is surmoun
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    by flarg 9y ago

    My wife, an expert in early years education, was mightly impressed with raising boys by steve biddulph.
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    by flarg 9y ago

    Just to share anecdotes ... My wife has had two Coach bags and the quality really shows after several years of daily use and no marks of wear and tear. It's not all branding.
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    by flarg 9y ago

    Long time follower of the project here... So far it's been aimed at geeks who want to archive their content from the cloud, eg tweets, but it also stores files. Because of the way it is designed I've always thought there is a com
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    by flarg 9y ago

    Thanks for that. What are the key points, in your mind, against Meyers Briggs?
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    Ask HN: Should I test my personality

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    by flarg 9y ago

    Your profile is emphasised to recruiters during searches, kind of like a premium profile in a dating site.