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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008At my day job we use Glassfish from Sun Microsystems. Glassfish is opensource. It is basically the beta platform for the Sun Java Application Server 9.X. We are gradually moving toward Java-centric applications and Glassfish is working for us. We decided to look for support. I called up my Sun [...]
Ready, Fire, Aim review
Friday, January 11th, 2008I was looking for some interesting reading so I went to Barnes and Noble the other day. I saw this book, Ready, Fire, Aim. It is written by Michael Masterson. I had not heard of him but when I brought the book home my wife said she gets his newsletter, Early [...]
SWOT Analysis
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008The Statements
Strategies are the way a company accomplishes their mission. Strategies come from a Vision and mission statement. A Vision statement tells everyone what the company wants to be. It is like the young boy who says he wants to be a fireman when he grows up. The vision statement should be inspirational and timeless. [...]
Leaders and Managers
Friday, December 21st, 2007What is the difference between a leader and a manager? There are a lot of discussions on this question. Both are needed in an organization. Both have specific traits that make them good at what they do. So the difference is in what they do and how they do it. A person can be both [...]
Project Initiation - Business Case
Sunday, December 9th, 2007A project should only be taken on by organizations if they add value. Basically you want to ensure the benefits exceed the cost in doing the project. There is a cost to all projects and that cost is employees. If we decide to do a project that project must have man hours set against it. [...]
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