How to maintain Slope on burn down chart

Posted Apr 03 2009, 07:05 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

We have a list of features, some of them are approved. Then we have a bunch of tasks, all have been estimated. When we assigned to the developers, each of them starts with the specific task, it might sequencial or parallel, depend on how the project leader assign based on the design. But the tasks assignment...

Create "Project for Fun" as a regular base project to refresh developer's brain

Posted Mar 12 2009, 08:39 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

As we know, software projects usually take quite long period to finish the completed project, especially from medium to large scale project. And its been in recorded as yearly period in statistics. Relative to this kind of project, the other projects like building construction, even took longer period...

Setup a free source code repository controller for software development team

Posted Feb 18 2009, 09:31 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

If you want to setup the software development team but your developers working from different locations, probably you might think how to setup and centralize the source code. Development tools like Visual Studio 2005 & 2008 with integration to TFS should cover this problem. Other development tools...

Team Leader as a Project Dashboard

Posted Jul 10 2008, 10:28 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

If you are working in a Software Development project as a Team Leader or the equivalent for this position, you might always facing a lot of management questions like below: When this module or feature will be completed? How many resource do you need? How is the progress? Is there any issues? How much...

Worry on our fresh graduate competencies

Posted Jul 10 2008, 07:45 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

I'd rather worry on our current IT major fresh graduate competencies. When I've had a recruitment road show, I found many fresh graduates from various famous universities in Surabaya, Bandung, and Jakarta. They are coming from Informatics, Computer Technique, Electro, Physics, Math and Agriculture...

Team Spirit is the key to your successfully Projects... and Game

Posted Jun 23 2008, 10:54 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

One of my favorite coaches has finally brought his team to the semi final of Europe 2008. As in my predictions, this old man has used his surprisingly strategic to face against the Total Football jargon owner - Nederland, which actually he is also part of that strategic. He has very deep understanding...

Software Value Up is Delicious

Posted Jun 17 2008, 04:43 PM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

We meet again! I have been finalizing the project of my offshore client. But the important things are not the finalization, I am concerning on the Software Value Up concept. I believe most of methodologies actually agree that delivery is very important thing in the software process. As well as frequent...

Why mostly Software Projects are always late?

Posted Mar 06 2008, 04:03 PM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

In the middle of seclusion day, I'd like to write a good question to be thinked of. This article title is that question. Maybe this question always set in my mind or yours along years. Actually I will very happy if I can buy this book , or someone already have it and will let me borrow it. But I...

How to publish a single dynamic service and utilize Generics

Posted Feb 12 2008, 05:40 PM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

If you want to provide a single - dynamic service and utilize the power of Generics, you probably will create the Generic method something like this; public bool Update<T>(T updatedItem) {...} And someday you'll probably need to publish this service to be able to participate in Serialization...

Re: Can architecture create a gap between developers and software they build?

Posted Dec 21 2007, 05:55 PM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

"Architecture based on such approach tends to simplify developers work through abstaction. If this is pushed to the extreme, developers tasks are taken out of functional context to become purely technical, which can potentially create a gap between developers and the software they are working on"...

Particular Agile in Software Development Process

Posted Dec 19 2007, 10:44 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

I am the one that agree with the statement "there are particular agile methodology inside adopted software development methodology". In fact the term agile is commonly used, but it could be applied on one of software development methodologies that popular currently. I found and experienced...

Thanks God I have a time to start blog again

Posted Dec 19 2007, 09:04 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

For the past 2 years I have been almost vacuum in bloging. I have done posting such as only once for two-three months in average. My job required concentrating and focus in the construction.. hmm.. so bad in time management Starting now I hope I can give more concern in writing. Hopefully not because...

Software Programmer Professionalism

Posted May 26 2007, 02:47 PM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

Aku berpikir bahwa gap antara coding skill /keahlian memprogram dan professional programmer ini cukup jauh. Kebanyakan programmer lebih focus ke coding skill terlebih dahulu dan baru kemudian mempelajari ke-professional-an untuk berusaha menjadi professional programmer. Kalau dia sempat, tetapi kalau...

Summary Aggregate Entity to cater aggregate entity CRUD enhancement

Posted Feb 06 2007, 11:11 AM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

Mungkin teman2 sering mengalami ke-kurang-puasan dalam menggunakan Entity classes dan aggregate entity dengan CRUD sebagai method standard accessing ke database, khususnya di architecture ORM. Ya. CRUD memang dimaksudkan untuk standard basic accessing ke database yg mana meliputi operasi Create-Retrieve...
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Being as an Architect is not the same path with Project Management has

Posted Jan 26 2007, 02:17 PM by Arif.Budimartoyo  

One of my Manager said : "now you are as an architect and will be on the track of project management. All of your technical competencies are not the matter to be measured on the next year". What??!.. This is not the way I am think about as being an Architect - which has different path with...
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