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Re: How I Implemented Large Cinemagraphs on My Company’s Home Page

Corinne Meaney — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:19:44 -0000

Hello, I found your article incredibly help as we have a client who want larger higher quality gifs. When utilizing and MP4 file saving as opposed to a gif how are you able to automate the continuous loop video like a gif allows. I am assuming this is more on the web end then the image preparation? Any advice you can give me, or that I can pass onto my developer would be hugely appreciated. Thank again for sharing!

Re: How I Implemented Large Cinemagraphs on My Company’s Home Page

Ernesto Fuentes — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:17:11 -0000

Great article. It gives me a point to start and pivot from there. Since I am a one man band, let’s see how this turns out. Cheers Jim!

Re: Be Like Mike!

Mallika (Mallika) Chellappa — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 04:34:00 -0000

I am so sad to hear of his passing, and so touched that he evoked such feelings amongst his colleagues. KV (as I called him) was my classmate during my engineering studies 1964-1969. we touched base again a few years ago thanks to google groups, but I was not aware of his illness.

Re: Be Like Mike!

Saeed Manii — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:20:15 -0000

Very sorry to hear this sad news. I had a pleasure working with Mike as Network Planner in 1992 while we both were at Bell Labs. My first assignement was working on a project in Hong Kong. Mike gave me 2 hours training (in fact, since we didn't have time, I had to go to his house on Saturday!); before I left to Hong Kong. He was a kind man, sometimes was not appreciated with manager at the time. But that never bothered him. May he rest in peace and we all must learn to "Be Like Mike".
Saeed Manii

Re: Work-life balance – Considering the issues

Alex Shanley — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:16:17 -0000

This is a great blog.

Re: Why Omni-Channel Retailing Is Shifting Business

Elaine Goodrich Erlanger — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:36:24 -0000

Data analytics are extremely important for achieving an
optimal omni-channel retail experience, especially in larger companies. With a good amount of transactions on many different platforms it is difficult for companies to see
the whole picture and what the customer trends are. Collecting the data and finding the link between all of the different platforms provides deep insight to customer
behavior which allows a company to provide a better buying experience. However, this is not an easy task, most larger companies have their platforms spread across many different legacy systems making the data is difficult to pull
together.

Re: Adding Agile Practices to a Waterfall World: The Pre-Planning Session (Part 1)

Derek Riddle — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:43:20 -0000

Agreed. Balancing between the overall expectations of management and the development team’s ability to commit and deliver iteratively is key. Effective pre-planning and release planning can go far to set expectations. Getting the business or management involved and engaged at the end of each iteration helps with the challenge. Thanks for your comment. I apologize for my tardy response.

Re: Why Omni-Channel Retailing Is Shifting Business

Shaurya Varma — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 07:29:30 -0000

Hi Elaine,

What could be the role of data analytics in achieving omni-channel retail? Can data streams from POS, online transactions, mobile transactions and social perception be interrelated and analyzed to achieve insights. For eg - division of supply across different channels based on consumers' buying trends?

What are your thoughts on this matter?

Re: Writing Requirements? That’s the Tip of the Iceberg for a Business Analyst

shoop hassen — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:28:12 -0000

you've done an excellent job of describing what we actually do as business analysts, a lot of this goes unnoticed by the rest of the project teams that we work with

Re: Writing Requirements? That’s the Tip of the Iceberg for a Business Analyst

Adrian Egley — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:53:12 -0000

Really good article, shows the importance of a BA in a business

Re: Writing Requirements? That’s the Tip of the Iceberg for a Business Analyst

John Hendrick — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:23:09 -0000

Well stated Yasir - the role of business analyst is very challenging yet rewarding...not for the faint hearted! But you do learn a lot and thats the best part sometimes with a difficult role like this - you do gain experience in problem solving on a very broad scale.

Re: Great Project Managers Have Great Soft Skills

Maree Harris — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:55:31 -0000

It is essential for project managers to have well-developed soft skills. Many project management contracts end up in the courts every year, not because of faulty work but because of a break down in relationships between major stakeholders in the projects concerned. With well-developed soft skills this could be avoided.

Re: Traceability Keeps Project Scope and Business Requirements in Sync

Yasir Rather — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:32:41 -0000

Interesting fact: The role of traceability was recognized in the pioneering NATO working conference held in 1968 to discuss the problems of software engineering (Naur and Randell, 1969). One of the working papers in this conference examined the requirements for an effective methodology of computer system design and reported on the need to be able to ensure that a system being developed actually reflects its design (Software and Systems Traceability, By Jane Cleland-Huang).

Re: Traceability Keeps Project Scope and Business Requirements in Sync

Yasir Rather — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:26:35 -0000

Because of the value that it provides, no one can dispute the importance and advantages of traceability but I really believe that in order for traceability to be effective, organizations need to have a traceability strategy in place. They should put time and effort in selecting and implementing the right strategy. If it is not done the right way, the resulting traceability document can become just another artifact that gathers dust or gets lost in some buried folder on SharePoint.
Also, there is cost involved with implementing and maintaining any kind of traceability (manual or automated), especially for medium and large projects, therefore it makes sense to have a strategy in place that is tailored to the organization and the type(s) of projects they undertake.

Re: Agile: A Kinder, Softer Approach Toward Change

Yasir Rather — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:01:41 -0000

Fowler has written extensively on the topic of “unpredictability of requirements”…requirements are always changing because of difficulties in estimation, software’s intangible nature and ever changing nature of business’s environment...
Therefore, as per the agile manifesto’s principal # 2, we should welcome changing requirements, even late in development and harness the change for customer’s competitive advantage BUT we should not ignore the importance of Configuration/Change Management principals in order to effectively manage and implement these changes.

Re: Why Omni-Channel Retailing Is Shifting Business

Yasir Rather — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:06:58 -0000

As they say in the retail industry “be where the customer is”! Businesses have to respond to the multi channel and multi device behavior of customers. In order to reach today's customers, businesses have to create a genuine and integrated customer connection, wherever they are: phone, tablet, web or retail stores.

Re: Beginning at the End

Yasir Rather — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:32:37 -0000

Your blog got me thinking about palindromes..."Never odd or even"!

Re: Beginning at the End

Dawn Placer — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:01:01 -0000

I think this is a great 'out-of-the-box' concept. As someone with many years of experience in web design and development, I think this backward design idea would definitely be something worth considering.

Re: CTA Design – Using affordances to enhance prominence hierarchies

Yasir Rather — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:00:41 -0000

Great blog! I've seen that “prominence hierarchy” can also play an important role in guiding visitor’s progression on the site. By making some CTAs more (or less) prominent, visitor's flow through the website can be influenced.

Re: Adding Agile Practices to a Waterfall World: The Pre-Planning Session (Part 1)

ChapterUndVerse — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:17:42 -0000

The real 'nut' of the matter for my experience wasn't the gradual insertion of agile into waterfall. It was introducing agile as a discipline that would not help if it were not followed. This is a sensitive issue when attempting to reconcile a waterfall PM's approach to a process where development is introducing agile practices.

Reconciling the methodologies to produce a schedule that would both support management's need to control and predict the future months in advance, while producing a schedule that development could believe and commit to, has been the challenge.

Re: An Agile Approach to My New Year’s Resolutions

Jane Amery — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:49:29 -0000

I love this article Bryan! Just goes to show that you can apply some level of Agile Methodology to just about any project. Good luck with yours!

Re: Test-Driving Google+

Todd Reilly — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:47:02 -0000

Not a good sign:

http://www.networkworld.com...

Re: Test-Driving Google+

Rakesh Chintha — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:17:57 -0000

A big +1 for hangouts. It has everything you need for an online meeting..

Re: Test-Driving Google+

Rakesh Chintha — Thu, 31 May 2012 11:16:53 -0000

A huge +1 for the hangouts... It really is useful for the collaboration tasks... It has everything you need for an online meeting.. scratchpad, voice, video, chat..

Re: Test-Driving Google+

Jean Giordano — Thu, 31 May 2012 10:23:10 -0000

I agree with most of your points, Todd (virtually none of my friends post here either!), but I have to add that EVERYTHING that Google does is related to their immense search capacity and what that allows. Case in point: there was a great article yesterday about how Google+ has a new local (and very relevant!) feature that allows users to obtain info about restaurants their friends have been interested in. Here's the link: http://mashable.com/2012/05...