Siim on the go
Alliance for Code Excellence
This is a great initiative. It basically allows to offset your bad code for the benefit for some of the great open source initiatives out there.
Software projects, productivity and failure
This paper argues that big and expensive software projects not only mostly fail, but should fail for the society to functional properly and spare it from bureaucratic complexity.
25 years of bullet points
Celebrate birth of the bullet point (1984 marks the initial design of PowerPoint, then known as Presentation) and what surely must be the most time consuming way to spend time in a corporate environment - making, presenting or viewing PowerPoint decks. Good or bad or how you should make your presentations - you decide (although Seth has good advice).
PayPal student account
PayPal has started to provide student accounts for purchases online and at stores. The account is a sub-account of a parent which also gives parents control over its available balance and appropriate monitoring of use.
Visualizing risk
Risk management is a crucial activity in many business functions. Using heat maps and a simple scale (green, yellow, red) is a very effective way to visualize risk.
Chuck can make anything happen
It would probably not surprise many people that there are many organizations that either fail to change or understand the need to change and still fail implementing it. Any improvement in business comes with a cost and the need to actually implement changes.
There are companies that need a push in the right direction, then there are companies that hire consultants to tell them stuff they already know or never intend to implement and then there are companies that expect things to improve by themselves. Hence the Chuck Norris syndrome - Chuck Norris can fix everything without changing anything. TechRepublic.
