nirav June 23rd, 2007
I love to scribble on a piece of paper to organize my thoughts. I actually keep a drawing book handy and use that any time I am thinking up a strategy. My mind maps are not as organized as many tools can create, but they do the job! But if you need to share your ideas with someone else, you need something better than just pen and paper! Here are a few tools that can help you capture and map yours and your buddies ideas in a “beautiful” way!
And of course, you can use so many desktop mind mapping tools if you wish, including FreeMind. You may also want to check out the Mind Mapping blog.
nirav June 13th, 2007
If you are familiar with Extreme Programming, these rules are not new to you. If you are not, they will certainly give you a lot of insight in good software development. We have been using many XP principles in our projects, and have had very good success.
Here are the XP rules, straight from the XP website.
Planning
Designing
Coding
Testing
Sometimes I think these are too idealistic. The real world demands are to deliver working software fast. A team that’s tuned to extreme programming can certainly deliver good code quickly, but most programmers are taught differently. They are not tuned to pair programming or test driven development. Many managers too doubt the value of these principles. That makes it more difficult to implement them.
I am dreaming of a project where we can implement all these rules!
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nirav May 29th, 2007
Yesterday, 27th May 2007, Magnet completed 8 years of building high end web applications. Last 8 years have been a roller coaster ride. We have been at the peak, and we have hit bottoms. But bit by bit, through the hard work of all the people who have worked with us, we have grown. We have grown in experience, size and wisdom.
Thank you, to all the people who contributed. From the college friends who started off, the Magnet e-zine team, initial employees, to clients, associates, families, and everyone else.
We celebrated the 8th Anniversary! Pictures over here!
nirav April 26th, 2007
Read an interesting note from boss to employees on ExecPundit. Naveen sent the link and I felt if everyone would follow those suggestions, things would be so much better! The post also has a few notes from employees to the boss, and they are also a good read! Here’s a sampling of the note from boss to employees:
- I am sometimes under enormous pressure from upper management; pressure that you seldom see. Anything that you can do to make my job easier will be greatly appreciated.
- I will make mistakes. Please give me the same understanding that you’d like me to give you when you blunder.
- If I do something dumb or am on the verge of doing so, please tell me. Don’t hint. Tell me.
- I expect you to take initiative. If you keep bouncing things to me, I’m going to wonder why I have you around.
- Don’t let all of my talk about meeting goals and producing results lead you into unethical behavior. You always have my permission to be ethical.
- If either of us has a problem with the other’s performance, let’s talk about it.
So true!
nirav April 13th, 2007
The number of unread blog entries was rising high, and I took some time to look at what happened in the last two weeks on my favorite blogs. Started reading, and I have so much to share going through just a few posts. Here are some interesting reads.
And other than that, Magneteers rocked my terrace on 10th April. We celebrated my engagement with Nikita with an energetic DJ party! Pictures are up!
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