Agile Project Management Tune-up

The last MassTLC meeting in July on “Taking your Agile Development to the Next Level – Best Practices and Methodologies” triggered all kind of thoughts; for example: lingo is different by the substance is the same finally software engineering get’s to adopt practices that have been applied in other practices the real problem of resource …

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Development processes: one size does not fit all

Christine Nolan has been doing an excellent job organizing the Software Cluster of MassTLC. Today’s meeting took place in the VMware facilities in Cambridge and moderated by Brad Meiseles, Director of R&D at VMware. Brad made a couple of excellent references and quotes such as: “Begin with the end in mind” – From Steve Covey’s …

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High-performance teams: a lifetime experience

This subject has been the theme of many books and recent meetings. Most recently I attended the Mass Technology Leadership Summit on Rapid Development and Deployment; this meeting was one of the MassTLC Software as a Service & Cloud Software Cluster. Details about the promising world of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS can be found in …

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Is mobile HTML5 another J2ME experiment?

Yesterday, several mobile fanatics attended the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) event discussing the topic of  Integration in a Fragmented Mobile World. Andrew Borg (Aberdeen Group) and four more mobile development leaders, Raj Aggarwal (Localytics), Nick Brachet (Skyhook Wireless), Alex Donn (AT&T), Bill Gianoukos (HeyWire), run an excellent panel and engaged the curious audience. The …

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Augmented Reality for Mobiles and Tablets

One of my favorite conferences is “Emerging Communications” eComm in brief. You really have to see the video clips posted in eComm 2010 to appreciate the tectonic shift that Augmented Reality will cause to many industries such as: next generation of human to machine interface tele-presence industrial and home automation gaming entertainment I have posted …

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Google’s Agile Practices

On Thursday, Sep 29th, the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) organized a meeting in Cambridge about Google’s Agile Development Processes and Strategies; the room included 50-70 people, primarily software developer managers and some developers. Two speakers Steve Vinter and Mat Andrews presented the material encouraging audience questions and interactions. Here is a brief summary. Steve …

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VCs present their perspectives

Another excellent event by Xconomy last Monday, September 26th, titled: Consumers, the Cloud, and Beyond—New Rules for Innovation. The discussion participants (from left to right):               David Patrick, CEO, Apperian (moderator): Recently raised $9.5 million in financing led by North Bridge Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Larry …

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Smart Grid and Active Networks

In the evening of Sep 21st, Stephen Bush presented to the IEEE Boston Communications group his perspective of the Smart Grid and the importance of communications (see IEEE Boston). I had the pleasure to sit next to Stephen during the dinner meeting before the formal meeting – he works for GE Global Research in NY, …

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Notes from XSITE 2011

Babson College, July 16th, 2011, GK Welcome and About the Day Bob Buderi. Founder and Editor in Chief, Xconomy Opening Remarks Len Schlesinger, President, Babson College Rick Miller, President, Olin College Keynote: Entrepreneurship Driven by Technological and Social Innovation Desh Deshpande, Founder, Sycamore Networks, Chairman, A123 Systems Desh, of course, is co-founder of Sycamore Networks, …

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