tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:26:59 +0000architectureproject managementweb 2.0book reviewsoftware houseleadershipofferingquality assuranceconferencegadgetpsychologyRomaniaanalysisbiometric passportblogdocumentation generatormanifestomapswidgetwikipedialeading projects & project management; software development; web 2.0; time organization; book reviews; othershttp://koszlajda.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)Blogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-9052537552594994499Wed, 06 May 2009 13:28:00 +00002009-07-28T11:33:55.069+02:00analysisEverybody heard about Unified Modeling Language, but when there is some specific question like “what empty diamond means in UML?” most of people don’t know the full answer (including myself :) ). This situation is common as in current complicated world the most important thing is not to know the full answer, but to know where to find it.UML toolsOne of the most popular tool to draw UML diagrams http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2009/05/uml-or-not-uml.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-76775455439191268Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:54:00 +00002009-01-02T18:13:39.605+01:00mapsLast time somebody mentioned to me that all maps delivered in the internet comes generally from two companies. Generally that is right, but...There are two companies on each side of Atlantic ocean. On the left hand we have NAVTEQ in Chicago and on the right hand we have TeleAtlas in Netherlands. Without the surprise most of sources stands that TeleAtlas provides better maps for EU and NAVTEQ has http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2009/01/maps-on-internet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-763434320458355482Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:58:00 +00002008-08-07T11:09:01.099+02:00quality assuranceDevelopment market in Poland become more adult during last couple of years and I am happy to see that there appears head hunting for new job titles like Quality Assurance specialists. That is a strong signal that software houses become more responsible for their products and their do understand that you can not leave the client alone with the software testing. The problem is that sometimes, http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/08/outsourcing-test-process.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-886237896433641936Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:52:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:22.838+01:00project managementMany of Project Management Office (PMO) realize number of projects in parallel and quite often it raises the resources conflict. That is mostly about people, but it includes also hardware, budgets and the others. Companies fix these conflicts (or not) in different way...Independent project teams Very good solution is to organize the whole company basing on project or product teams focused fully http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/06/projects-scoring-system-in-pmo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-7260653166245797457Sat, 17 May 2008 17:24:00 +00002008-06-04T14:30:36.666+02:00leadershipThe internet is lastly like a wild west. We move from the east coast and it seems like we are still far away from the Pacific Ocean. Instead of the run for a ground, we reserve the domain names. The cost of establishing your own business in the internet is nowadays very cheap or even free and there is plenty of people with various specialization, who saw the gold in establishing their own web http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/05/tips-and-tricks-for-start-ups.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-4450445903759884347Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:28:00 +00002008-06-04T14:30:56.468+02:00project managementI have been asked lastly if I know how to schedule successfully. For novice PM the task seems to be easy in Microsoft Project - simple Gantt chart is all what you need. More experienced fellow, who has realized at least one bigger project will just smile as he knows already how tricky the life is.PMBoK defines 4 main project dimensions - scope, quality, time and budget. Most of stakeholders likeshttp://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/04/sucessfull-scheduling.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-8112853746039325145Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:39:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:23.004+01:00architectureI have refreshed lastly my knowledge about the MSF. I have looked backward and deep into my soul and here there is a short list of my private suggestions if you think about going into the direction...Choose carefully MSF3 or MSF4There is quite a big twist in Microsoft approach to the MSF lastly. When MSF3 is the loose set of good practices written on paper, MSF4 is their implementation within http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/03/microsoft-solution-framework-tips-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-2742386143046081188Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:37:00 +00002008-03-07T17:36:28.617+01:00conferenceMood: Too much paper work, too much organizational stress, but... finally weekend incomingYesterday (6.III) I have attended to MS conference Heroes Happen Here in Warsaw, which was sold as countrywide premiership of Windows 2008, VS 2008 & SQL Server 2008. It happened 7 days after the premier in LA (27.II), where quite a big show took a place including Steve Ballmer speech - do you prefer http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/03/heroes-happen-here-in-warsaw.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-1464635975863122561Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:10:00 +00002012-05-26T11:07:29.271+02:00Mood: Stabilized Sound of the day: What if I say I will never surrender! The regular reality brings you the number of small, administrations problems, which you have to "micromanage" by yourself. As I have been asked couple of time how to manage them - here there is a couple of tricks... Mailbox migration Assuming you have regular Exchange server, your Outlook points to OST or PST file, which http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/02/mailbox-migration-c-drive-running-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-2953945200772515964Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:25:00 +00002008-02-18T23:17:53.557+01:00offeringMood: Too much workMusic: Cool soundsIntroduction - Background of the storyTaking a part in one of the tenders, I was surprised by the issue called "dual-use items". The thing was put on the table by Jakub Manikowski from IBM, who pointed out that exporting some items from EU country, outside EU borders bring you within the range of these regulations. "Dual-use items" are in general, items which http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/02/dual-use-items.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-5680937638270731190Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:46:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:23.617+01:00biometric passportMood: Wife does not sleep at home, husband rest in peace ;)Music: This is how I have learned the word 'remedy' :DNote: All the materials available and provided below are publically available on the internet.IntroductionThe biometric passport is in general the passport with the RFID computer chip, which stores the data necessary to uniquely identify the person. Once per a while there are organizedhttp://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/01/epassport-intro.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-6129991928805328801Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:20:00 +00002008-01-22T21:27:51.250+01:00book reviewMood: Lack of sleepThere is a question, somewhere deep in my head: Is it possible that Leonardo da Vinci has bored just once per whole civilization? Is there truely no place nowadays for real "renaissance person", who has some achievement in more than two,three disciplines? The book is the answer for the question: definitely there is at least one such a person - Mr. Feynman. The book describes http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/01/surely-youre-joking-mr-feynman-book.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-1518882165569458748Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:59:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:24.561+01:00web 2.0Mood: The weekend with XBox 360 and Call of Duty 3 is truely the cureLink: I would love to fix projects problems as he dances :D, but at the end there is usually blood :D :DIntroGoogle Trends is the set of services, which allows you to analyze through ALL the search requests send to Google and news appearing on the web by geographical region and by date (since 2004). There are the following http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/01/google-trends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-6728907839680299856Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:33:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:24.882+01:00architectureMood: Monday was not as horrible as expectedLink: I am not the fan of the serie, but the sounds keep pinging my mind ;)"We need simply to use UML and it will fix all the problems" - I was quite surprised to see the idea in MY mind and luckily not in my mouth yet ;) I am quite sure you know also the people, who believes that particular approach like Prince2 or RUP will be the remedy for any diseashttp://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/01/uml-rup-msf-and-others-versus-reality.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-8651119325526755039Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:49:00 +00002008-01-07T17:41:13.591+01:00leadershipproject managementpsychologysoftware houseMood: Just after straight-11 free days without ANY business phone call (can you imagine that?)Link: Odd Christmas wishesI have got some time ago the very good question: "Where from do I know, what I know?". I am the type of the guy, who asked about non expected thing, usually can not come up quickly with a clever answer, so I answer something not-clever-enough. The problem is that, this type of http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2008/01/sources-of-knowledge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-783585587408357178Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:14:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:25.080+01:00project managementAbout Prince2 examsPrince2 stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environment and it is non-agile type of project management methodology. It bases on customer-supplier pair, who wants to make a business (represented by business cases) in a strictly formalized way, to avoid some possible misunderstanding or potential conflicts. The methodology operates mostly on customer side and it is optional for http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/12/preparing-for-prince2-exam.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-6608365442425295639Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:54:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:26.128+01:00web 2.0Popfly is the mashups and web page creator service published by Microsoft at November 2007. It seems like the answer to the Yahoo!Pipes service and as that solution it does not require from you to install anything – you may do all the tricks straight from your web browser. Pipes seems to be the on-line version of Data Transformation Services concentrated more on processing text data, when Popfly,http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/12/popfly-mashups.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-4838798185944112456Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:30:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:26.772+01:00web 2.0Mood: First day at work after the holidays ;)There is quite many social national and international social networks. I use the most often LinkedIn as the most popular one and also the one, which I enjoy. I have some accounts in the other(s), but I visit them just once per a month or couple of months, when I get some invitation from them. I have made lastly the exception to have a closer look at http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/12/plaxo-30-beta.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-3665814788470239153Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:40:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:27.615+01:00architectureMood: My skis are packed, holidays incoming!Background: That is how skis works ;) About CardSpaceCardSpace (formerly “InfoCard”) is the solution introduced within .Net Framework 3.0 side by:- Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF)- Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)- Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)It is Microsoft’s standard for authentication and digital http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/11/cardspace-xor-openid-trends.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-3047145342339298341Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:53:00 +00002007-12-17T10:38:58.938+01:00architectureMood: Saturday party - heeeeaaaar I come !!!!!Soundtrack: "Monkey dance" remixed (no comments)IntroductionIn one of the projects, we had a problem to ensure that the sent email, was received. As it is easy to guess there is number of reasons, why the thing may fail and one of the most obvious reasons is the wrong email address. The standard SMTP mechanisms does not provide any solution as it is http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/11/badmail-coding-adventure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-3629092191004604853Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:33:00 +00002007-11-17T01:29:49.267+01:00If you ever though you have taken a part in a big project - have a look at this. This year the show happened at 16.11 in special 9500 m2 big building space. So far the list of records was...Year Details: Where: Toppled:2006 Domino Day: Music in Motion Netherlands 4.079.3812005 Domino Day: Theatre of Eternal Stories Netherlands 4.002.1362004 Domino Day: Challenge Netherlands 3.992.3972002 Domino http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/11/domino-day-2007-behind-scene.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-3241638499102020991Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:17:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:27.742+01:00quality assurancesoftware houseIt is quite often, that companies posses their own “Rules of coding” document like the one from Philips, which is more or less the compilation of documents available on the net. I strongly suggest also reading "Framework Design Guidelines", which is my bible in the area. One thing is to write the paper and the other is to have it truly implemented. Some companies have the process established thathttp://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/11/fxcop-story.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-1274964969182226082Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:08:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:27.890+01:00web 2.0As most of people I am registering RSS feeds, when I have some time to spare and than usually not enough time to read them frequently. I am after a romance with RSS Bandit, which one of the best standalone RSS readers (in my opinion). Then I have tried to use RSS reader emedded in IE 7 and Outlook - what a creepy implementation it is (bleh). Now I am looking at Google Reader used by one of my http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/11/google-reader-quick-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-4777365279973307892Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:10:00 +00002008-12-11T04:51:28.236+01:00project managementsoftware houseVery often there pop-ups the question like: 'What of methodologies do you know/use?'. There is usually some smart answer like PMBoK, RUP or SCRUM, but when the question is drilled down, it appears out of the blue that there is just the set of unique practices - the mixed salad from everything what market offers and world wide web says about. There is nothing wrong with it and furthermore it is a http://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/11/marriage-of-prince2-with-microsfot.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386522655316699432.post-521406691496124318Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:13:00 +00002007-11-03T11:36:08.440+01:00psychologyMy manifesto says that this place is a techblog, but at the end of it I have hidden the option, that under specific circumstances each or all the rules may be broken - here we are. I can not stop myself from writing you below the 10 rules of happy life wirtten by psychologist PhD Krzysztof Szymborski, which I have read in "Polityka" newspaper:1. Do not avoid sex - inimate closeness with the otherhttp://koszlajda.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-be-happy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Adam Koszlajda)0