Proud new owner of a PRII

We bought a 2007 Prius last week, right before the tax break was reduced. So far we are averaging close to 47 MPG. SWEEEET

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SD West 2007 - A project manager learns more about Agile

Better late than never. I attended 1 day of the SD West conference a couple of weeks ago. I went to two workshops in the People, Process & Methods Track. I've committed to increasing my knowledge in Agile/Iterative/Short Cycle development techniques and tools. According to Scott Ambler the industry is moving away from "traditional" processes towards more "agile " processes.

Here are the workshops I attended and what I thought of them,

Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD): Gain Without the Pain Scott Ambler
- I liked Scott's presentation skills and group tasks. I liked what he had to say. Some thoughts that I took to heart: "Just barely enough documentation" & "Use white boards more often"


Agile Estimating and Planning Mike Cohn
Mike was also a good speaker and the workshop tasks made me think about the planning process we just went through on some of our projects. I look forward to using his planning poker cards on some of our projects.

Overall I liked the workshops and will seek out more training in these areas.

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The Shopping.com Blog

We launched a blog last week called What's In Store.

"We’re here to share expert online shopping tips, discuss the latest trends, and most importantly, to create a new forum for online shoppers to share practical and useful information with each other. We hope to offer something for everyone, from active online shoppers to holiday-only gift buyers."

It's main focus is shopping but maybe we'll get a few mentions of some of things we're doing on Shopping.com and Epinions.com

SF Giants going solar - COOL

Googleis doing it and so are the San Francisco Giants.

I think this is great news and I look forward to hearing more news like this in the near future. I think it's very important that all these large buildings/structures start exploring ways to reduce their consumption.

What's even more impressive is that the panels were installed within days of the announcement. Usually these things take months/years to happen.

I wonder if the panels had anything to do with the new HD scoreboard?

Does anyone else have any corporate solar news??




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Time for blogging

I'm going to make a pledge right here, right now, to put some more time into blogging.

There you have it. More posts to come.....

Please fix my calendar!!!

The time change has been wonderful outside of work, the sun is out later and my daughter sleeps in. At work, it's a mess. Everything is 1 hour off and not everyone is on the same timezone/hour. It's resulted in meetings being schedule with the time (that the organizer wants the meeting to occur) being put in the subject line.

Anyone else having this problem? Oh and before you comment on the MS patches, I've run them and so have other people. Nothing works, I guess it will stay like this for another month. :-(

Up for the challenge?

Epinions has announced the sweepstakes rules and prizes for February. Write a Very Helpful review in 500 words or less and win up to $500.
Here is what you can win.

* The first place winner will receive $500 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
* The second place winner will receive $300 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
* The third place winner will receive $200 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi dolls.
* Five additional winners will receive $100 in eRoyalties, plus a set of Epi Dolls.

eRoyalties is the equivalent of cash. Not a bad deal, right?

The community is pretty excited about it. Have a look at what they're saying.


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