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Da Vinci Notebooks

“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

Business value approach to requirements

“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

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.

OpenOffice

Tim Bray on OpenOffice

Why an MBA May Not Be Worth It

Fortune.com – Why an MBA May Not Be Worth It

FreeMind

FreeMind – free Java-based mind mapping software

oopm

OpenOffice are starting on a “project management tool”:https://oopm.openoffice.org/ [via “Clarke Ching”:https://www.clarkeching.com/2004/06/new_openoffice_.html]

Diseconomies of Scale

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

The Art of Getting Things Done

Xkey

Xkey 2.0 USB key drive with a 32-bit processor inside