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Thanks Steve: "Swings and Roundabouts" I like that :) You know its funny,in respose to Tim, a friend of mine at a site where I once worked as an analyst borrowed a PC to use at home. While cleaning the system up and deleting files and applications, it appears that the previous...

I think your are confusing paranoid with insightful and astute. Oooops...here come the men in grey...gotta g If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

Hi Jeff: I am going to be interested in the respones this thread recieves. Here is my two sense. First, I have been blessed to have a develpoment staff that does research on their own time or in the course of solving a work related problem. If as part of their assignment, say optimizing...

I heard that when Noah was building his ark, he used COBOL to track his inventory. :) Pivan If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

Yeap maxq and the score card is your income. The knowledge one gains through experience is one's power. pivan If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

Darn bart...your English is better then mine :) Thanks for the insight. I think RUP and its advocates should take a look at this thread and use your post and elizabeths and the rest to explain interative and waterfall models. Since they both are entwined with each other. Again, thanks. In...

Jeff...Great articles...' Thanks, pivan If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

Citrix..what your describing is basic methodology for any project, not neccesarly IT projects. This methodology works. And you are correct in every aspect of your post. Yuni, people crave structure and organization which is why bureaucracy can exist. See Citrix above post, a good methodology...

Hi Joe: No... I didn't use CD. Wanting to keep things simple, I just read the Exam Prep Book and took the sample exam in the RMC Exam Prep Book. When I scored 90% I took the exam. The RMC course was invaluable (IMHO) and despite 20+ years of managing technical projects, I don't think I would...

"Remember, you consult WITH your client, not AGAINST him." I like that.... a nice mantra. Thanks, pivan If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

The late author John Steinbeck on age and maturity wrote: " A boy becomes a man when a man is needed. I've known boys 40 years old." Food for thought. pivan If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

Greg "" was reading in PMP Certification prep book by Michael Newell that exceeding stakeholder expectations is worse than meeting them...this is not true in industry."" You might want to explore this a little further to understand the full implication of Newell's (albeit...

Try the Addison Wesley book "Managing Software Requirements" by Leffingwell and Widrus. They have some excellent templates (based on the Rational Unified Process). pivan If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

carp is absolutely correct. I would further suggest that in abscence of requirements document, you create when yourself, review it and get sign off. To bring some sanity to your situation you may have to wear the hat of a business analyst and make sure you have the requirements nailed down...

Help!!! After several years of avoiding this topic, I am finding need to understand it...I mean really understand it. Can anyone in this learned body recommend a good book on SCM or a resource to understand and implement it? The book "Software Configuration Management" by H. Ronald...

Hi Mark: Here is my two sense worth as far as developer career track. You will need to make a couple of decisions. First, Java, or MS. VB is that it is designed for small apps, small orgs, that need to be design and deploy applications quickly. No one that I know of is making any decent...

Culture...after NASCAR, World Wrestling Federation, and a six pack of beer what else is there. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

ponderworks....cool ...works fine. Got any more ? :) If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us, who? Just do it!!

Know doubt about it, maxg is correct in his assesment, at least IMHO. The elderly in Appalachie...ok..a little extreme but I understand your point. Its ones own perogative as to how he/she/it addresses social issues. Way to go iza, it sounds like you understand and are living the point that I...

Hi Joe: This was my first time taking an exam at a test center, i.e. outside of a school room or hall. And my first computer test. Yes, you can take breaks during the exam, the 4 hour counter keeps ticking. I checked with the proctor prior to the test to make sure I understood the rules of...