Articles Archive for June 2009
Digital Marketing »
If you want to get your brand out there you need to advertise right?
No new news there then, but the medium is always changing. I for one have my own opinion on the negative use of spin and phycology manipulation with the use of marketing, but in the big wide world you have to push your adverts everywhere right? Well while you have an internal debate about that one, the one place that marketeers are focusing on more and more is
Project Management »
This is a nice, simple explanation of the basics of Agile project management a software engineering environment written by Adam Feldman. For the original article please visit his Project management blog
Stories. Acceptance Criteria. Value based prioritisation. Iterate often. Change is normal – be agile.
Stories
Agile encourages the use of User Stories as a requirements gathering technique. Stories are similar to high level requirements, however, they are normally written from the perspective of the actual user.
It is helpful for each story to express the value of the story to the customer. For example, …
Virtual Worlds »
If you don’t already know Secondlife is one of the most popular Virtual worlds around. Lots of others are getting on the bandwagon but Secondlife was the first and is undoubtedly the most popular for now. There is also talk of technologies which will allow the merging of online virtual worlds in the future but why do you care? I’ll tell you why! The very same reason that this world turns : Money! More and more companies are utilising these virtual worlds to
web design »
IT doesn’t take long for Google to change things and if you blink you might miss it! but yes thats right, Google have now changed the way they index Flash Content!
Peter Elst details: “It seems Google did an update to how it indexes Flash content yesterday. Some of you might have already heard about
Project Management »
I have read a few posts and articles about change management in projects and this one written by Martin Burns @ IBM is really quite good. Managing digital projects is always more demanding in mine any many other PM’s opinions. The goalposts shift at such a rate and the web is the most invasive and
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web design »
From World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to Jimmy Fallon, Trent Reznor, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Sarah Silverman, Lisa Kudrow and
Mobile »
So you fancy having a go at building your own iPhone application? Well, we’ve put together a few helpful tips and considerations to guide you along the way.
“I’ve got a great idea! All I need to do is put it into an iPhone application and away we go!”
Does this sound familiar to you? This is how it can be when you don’t have the time, experience or ability to follow through with the ideas. If you do have these skills and the direction to build an iPhone application, perhaps you …
Project Management »
Another great post Published by Brad Egeland | June 2, 2009
“You know how it goes….you can follow every PMI standard, practice and guideline. You can produce status reports and project plans that should be placed on some sort of ‘wall of fame’ somewhere. But no matter what you do, the project is doomed to fail – or at least not truly succeed. This can be, of course, for any one of a number of reasons. Some common ones are:
