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Sydney Business & Technology User Group

The meeting held on 27 June 2007 was fantastic, sessions covered were: Web 2.0 (Steven Ringo) Connected Systems (Scott Scovell) Number of good things about the sessions, few to highlight were the references given by Steven Ringo and the high level overview of the connected systems by Scott Scovell. The sessions can be downloaded here and here (or […]

June 28, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Blogroll, General, Talman news

Talman looking for Senior Developer and Senior testing and QA professional…

Talman Pty. Ltd. is currently looking for Senior developer and a Senior testing and QA professional. The roles are based in Sydney-Australia, for more information on our company visit http://www.talmansolutions.com.au Applicants must have Australian permanent residency in order to apply. Please send expressions of interest to Craig Bailey at craig.bailey@talman.com.au with a CC to rahul.desai@talman.com.au Technorati […]

June 22, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
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Sydney Business and Technology User Group

Craig Bailey and Talman Pty. Ltd. have taken the initiative to start a new users group “Sydney Business and Technology User Group”, basically the group is an outcome of the conversion of the Sydney Visual FoxPro users group (yet another instance of people converting from VFP to something else……it is not only related to applications […]

May 30, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: General, Talman news, Visual Foxpro

Talman Solutions (.Net, SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk, Visual FoxPro, Security)

Here is the new looking Talman website…..nice improvements. Looks good Craig, am not sure whether web team was involved in this. Link to Talman Solutions (.Net, SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk, Visual FoxPro, Security) Technorati tags: Talman, Rahul Desai, Craig Bailey, Talman Solutions, .Net, SQL Server, SharePoint, BizTalk, Visual FoxPro, VFP, Microsoft, Security, Sydney, Australia

April 7, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Talman news

Project Scope and Estimate management….

Software development projects should definitely have a separate “Scope” document specially written which : Contains the micro level definitions for the work to be done as part of the project including Object level validations (very difficult to achieve but can be broadly spec’ ed out) Number of times the change cycle be allowed Change of delivery […]

April 4, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering, Talman news

Results from OzFox 2007 survey….

Craig Bailey has published some interesting survey results, done during the OzFox 2007 VFP conference, here is the link: http://craigbailey.blogspot.com/2007/03/vfp-Ozfox-quick-survey-results.html Not surprising to see all the flavors of FoxPro still being used. Great survey….thanks for the information Craig. Technorati tags: Visual Foxpro, Microsoft, Talman, Craig Bailey, Rahul Desai, OzFox

March 27, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Talman news, Visual Foxpro

Micro managing team members….

No one likes the idea of Micro managing a team member, so what does micro managing mean? Micro managing means paying extra attention to minor details. In practice, this means managing at a level far lower and more detailed than necessary or appropriate. The following questions can answer some of the reasons for being micro managed: Is your […]

March 26, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Talman news

Project Burnouts and Burnout rebound….

This is a common scenario while working with smaller team on bigger projects, weeks of demanding workload takes its toll and you discover the motivation isn’t quite what it used to be. Identifying and battling back from burnout is a skill every project manager must know. Some key areas which can help rebound, when in […]

March 21, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering, Talman news

Managing and Planning for Critical tasks….

Again some common project management mistakes, which becomes critical and become root cause of the project failures. I am talking about not identifying and not pre-planning for Critical tasks. The current project I am working on has a similar critical task of integrating VFP application with AS400 applications through use of MQ-series messaging. The development […]

March 17, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Software Engineering, Talman news, Visual Foxpro

Performance reviews…

I (along with Craig Bailey) just started my first performance review with my Talman team, I was planning for this since last 4 months…. The purpose of an employee performance review is to communicate feedback on your level of performance within the role defined for you. Good performance review systems improve communication. This is an effective […]

March 4, 2007 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
Posted in: Project Management, Talman news