Over the Top

No this is not about an arm-wrestling contest like the movie Over the Top but it is a contest.  I have just registered at Top Coder, an online software development contest.  Although I haven’t done any full-blown software development for a little more than a year already, I’m going to try my luck competing with [...]

Product Development

I just woke up and I am dead hungry! I have already eaten about six times today. It seems I get hungry almost every 3 hours due to the diet. It’s a good thing there are plenty of tuna stocked in the house ^^.
In a totally unrelated note, I used to think [...]

Developer’s Itch

The programmer in me is trying to surface again. It is so strong that I even find myself wanting to program while working on a project plan. In fact, I have been lately finding myself emerged in readings tackling Struts 2, Java Server Faces, iBatis, and Maven 2. Somehow, i want to [...]

Estimation Technique: Wideband Delphi

Software effort and size estimation is the most critical part of the software development activities — at least for me. This is one of the biggest factor that will determine the success or failure of your project. A “real” successful project will mean project delivery on schedule, product is of just enough quality, [...]

Power of the Mind: Requirements Gathering

The power of the mind has proven itself again! This time in the domain of requirements gathering for software development. A am talking about mind mapping. If you remember, I discussed this concept/tool a few posts back. If you don’t know about it, now is the right time to dive into [...]

What Are Project Managers? #1

Project Managers are like Superman
Project Managers are the only single-point of contact in a project (or it should be that way). He/she is the middleman for everyone; for the clients, the senior management, the development team, the contractors, and every stakeholders that is involved in the project. That is why if anything [...]

Black Hawk Down

Now that my U.S. project is officially closed (good work team!), my late night and early morning will be work-infestation free! hurray!!! Maybe now I can reduce the eye bag layers that have accumulated because of this project. My other project, a local one, has also entered the final phase. I just [...]

Bonk!

Why can’t the Philippines be the leader in the I.T. industry? In software development to be exact. We have a lot of good talents here. All resources that should be learned are already available in the Internet so keeping in pace with other countries in terms of knowledge shouldn’t be a problem. [...]

Mind Mapping

Have you ever experienced trying to organize your thought but always end up in the same state if not in a more chaotic mind set?  Have you ever tried following a trail of thought and end up in a dead end or have completely lost the trail?  I have just the right tool for you!
I [...]

Project Tracking and Oversight System (Protoss)

I'm thinking of starting a pet project that I can (probably) use in my job and I shall name it PROTOSS short for Project Tracking and Oversight System!  This is one very huge project!  Estimated time of completion? 5 years!  Wish me all the luck!