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Project management and software engineering analytics
Have you ever wondered, “how many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?” This post will give you the predictive analytics tools to finally answer that age-old question. Today we look at using software engineering analytics to help project managers and software engineering managers do resource planning.  This is part of our popular Ask Acculation series; scroll down to find out how to get your analytics or start-up questions answered here. We originally answered this question on a Q&A site. Where can I learn best practices for Scrum? The answer depends on the specific situation. Many advocates of Agile insist that it can only be done properly if engineers and your internal product experts are the same location, or at least in the same time zone. The original question asked about “Scrum” but didn’t specify whether Agile was intended or not. Proper use of the term “Scrum” always requires Agile, but in practice project managers will use the term “Scrum” with what are, in fact, very non-Agile methodologies.… Read the restCommon start-up hiring misconceptions
Startup hiring on a shoestring budget? Recently, we’ve gotten an awful lot of unsolicited requests for start-up advice, such as today’s question about startup hiring on a shoestring budget. (We’ve also received some solicited questions, as well. 🙂 ) We sometimes see the same mistakes being made over and over again by local entrepreneurs. We thought we’d cover some of these in our blog if it will help other start-ups out. If you have or are considering doing a start-up, scroll to the bottom of this article to see how you can get your questions answered in a future version of this column. Today, we’ll clear up some common misconceptions about the cost of engineers. This is an actual question we recently received via email from a local entrepreneur, one of many in our mail. We’ve removed the company name and altered some details for publication purposes. Start-up newbie: “I have an idea for a really awesome video-related mobile app!… Read the restOh send in the trolls. Oh where are the trolls? There aren’t any trolls….
Send in the trolls…. Oh where are the trolls…. (With apologies to Stephen Sondheim) Our Miley Cyrus SQL Server Hadoop article got trolled on Twitter today. And we thought ‘yes! Finally! A troll.’ Then it turned out he had no Twitter readership. We admit there was a problem with the article. We didn’t list the fact that some people think  Miley Cyrus and using SQL Server together with Hadoop are both somewhat messed up. Mea culpa. (Also, we did not come down nearly hard enough on Microsoft. The article goes on endlessly with its tepid praise for SQL Server. If you can’t afford Oracle and need an top-of-line SQL solution it is actually quite a cost effective solution. If you can afford the risk of running Windows, that is. Mainly we attack MySQL. We thought that we’d at least get some MySQL fans trolling us. No, some random Microsoft type apparently thought their honor had been grievously offended with our insufficient praise of Redmond.)… Read the restReviews of our app, or working more with governments on air quality
It’s probably time to talk about our iOS mobile app again. Our recent articles on IBM Watson analytics and Google Glass generated a lot of interest with people contacting us privately to ask for advice on various start-up projects their working on. (Some more dubious then others — we’re going to an article talking generally about some of the worst mistakes we’re seeing on the start-up scene, so that readers can avoid them.) One comment we’re been getting is that we should doing more to get governments involved with our air quality app. So we decided to put some of the app reviewers from iOS on this blog (finally). The final commenter quoted below says he is a former environmental journalist, and points out that with our app you can monitor your own air quality, independent of government! He suspects not all governments will like this. We have a little anecdotal evidence he’s right.… Read the restRecent Posts
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