“Day-by-day Da Vinci”:https://www.interconnected.org/home/more/davinci Read the pages of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks by RSS, one at a time. “Matt Webb”:https://www.interconnected.org/home/ via “LibrarianInBlack”:https://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2004/06/davinci_noteboo.html
“Chris Matts”:https://abc.truemesh.com/ “points”:https://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000306.html to a paper he co-authored with “Andy Pols”:https://www.pols.co.uk/blog/index.html on “Business Value-driven Software Development”:https://www.pols.co.uk/business-coach/BusinessValueDrivenDevelopment.pdf (PDF) Sounds like obvious common sense to me, which presumably means it doesn’t happen as much as it could in the real world! 🙂 In “another post(Documents Create Antagonism)”:https://abc.truemesh.com/archives/000305.html he also puts his finger on a common problem with “Big Design Up Front”:https://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BigDesignUpFront projects – namely the dysfunctional behaviour driven on both business and development sides of a project by too much early specification that does not consider the value of requested features.
TheyWorkForYou.com: Is your MP working for you in Parliament? Public beta of new site that let’s you access your MP’s voting record, search for what they have said in debates etc.
Tim Bray on OpenOffice
Fortune.com – Why an MBA May Not Be Worth It
FreeMind – free Java-based mind mapping software
OpenOffice are starting on a “project management tool”:https://oopm.openoffice.org/ [via “Clarke Ching”:https://www.clarkeching.com/2004/06/new_openoffice_.html]
From “Management By Baseball”:https://cmdr-scott.blogspot.com/ a piece on the “Diseconomies of Scale”:https://cmdr-scott.blogspot.com/2004/05/new-york-mets-confrontthe-diseconomies.html [via “Jack Vinson”:https://jackvinson.com/archives/2004/06/02/diseconomies_of_scale.html]
The Art of Getting Things Done
Xkey 2.0 USB key drive with a 32-bit processor inside