http://www.effectiveui.com is up for a South by Southwest (SXSW) Award (or 2?) Vote here! https://secure.sxsw.com/peoples_choice/
As of today, the book to which I and many others here at Effective UI contributed has hit #5 in Multimedia Information Systems Books, and it's still in Prerelease!!
Some quick principles on communicating software project scope with clients that I follow:
- Make it a picture. It's understandable, digestable, communicable, and invokes thought on the part of the client.
- Communicate scope early and often. Change is inevitable...change without communication is inevitable failure.
- Like Scotty on the starship Enterprise - never let them know how the magic happens. And always under-promise and over-deliver.
- Invoke clients to think about what is agreed, and make sure they know when they're asking for something different than what's been agreed.
- When you can, call out and itemize work that has been performed outside of the agreed scope. Clients will either appreciate the work, or discuss a redirection, which is only better for everyone.
As a "professional" working in the world of business applications, I have often wondered what people are interested in learning from this perspective. Both in terms of philosophical and technical.
Over the next few weeks I'll be compiling a list of topics that have crossed my path, but if anyone out there is interested in something specific - I'll add it to my list.
Hello, my name is Chuck Williams.
Things I am:
I can come up with more than a few justifiable reasons, but the immediately available ones include:
Things I am:
- Father of 3 daughters & Husband (of 1, "X" to none)
- A "Senior Software Architect"
- Explore new ways of doing business through books, and personal experimentation
- Investigate spirituality through books and personal experimentation
- eat, sleep, and fulfill other biological necessities.
I can come up with more than a few justifiable reasons, but the immediately available ones include:
- I think my ego needs an outlet, and I'd like to focus on reducing that need (and the associated ego).
- I like to share things I learned.
- I think I have experienced a lot of pain in business and software, and I believe that pain is a great teacher, which leads me to believe I have a lot to offer the business and software industry.
- There's some part of me that thinks, very simply, that it should and must be done. Oddly - this is simultaneously the most ambiguous and strongest factor in my final decision.
