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Agile? Agility? Scrum? Hmm… These are the words in most of the software professionals’ mouth in these days… Better to know what it is and how to apply it… Else story would be similar to this… I still feel that people should know when to apply [...]

Nice article.Decided to share it with my friends.Especially with the those who willing to pursue a career in Business Analysis, Consultancy and Testing.Written by Ian Partridge I’m sure there must be a thesis somewhere on this question: How do you [...]

Most of the BAs using the term “Gathering” against the requirements. The exact term is “Requirements gathering”. While reading some articles, found an interesting article on the “Requirements gathering”. Here the author is arguing against the term gathering. According to Jill Liles we are not gathering but eliciting the requirements.This was on the BA Times [...]

This is my second article on the same subject. Yesterday I was going through Business Analyst Times (http://www.batimes.com) and came across with some interesting facts about the so called PM/BA role. Some people might take this as a direct attack to their practices and so called best processes throughout [...]

After a long silence, here I start my first blogging…Even though the blog heading is QA Heaven, never discussed the QA issues on this forum…Most of the local vendors utilizing the term QA in wrong way…Who ever test an application gets the two letters in front of their designation and becoming QA Engineers…And the selection [...]

Dialog was discussing about the WiMax connections by mid 2005 but SLT started the trials. Even though their trials went successfully Dialog pioneered the WiMax offerings by entering in to the commercial operations by mid 2007. Q01 of the 2008 was a very interesting one and couple of players entered to the Mobile and WiMax [...]

If you working for a company as an employee and working as a freelancer for someone else at the same time you might be worrying on a way to maintain the contacts between your office people and the business mates in parallel?Of course you can use mobile to keep contacts with the outsiders but [...]

Dec 05, 2007 (LBO) – Mobitel, a celco owned by fixed operator Sri Lanka Telecom launched its third generation network in the island, saying its existing service was growing so fast it was struggling to meet demand.”We are bursting at the seams and we can’t even take in the number of connections. We are dealing [...]

Client: Global Market Insite Inc. of Seattle, WA, USAProduct Domain: ERP/CRM for Market Research 5+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, coding and unit testing of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications in Windows/UNIX environments Thorough knowledge of J2EE frameworksCommunicate well in EnglishExcellent analytical skillsIn [...]

Following report was published at http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/ based on a report published by the Greenpeace. Greenpeace’s finding are available at their report; View Greenpeace Report.16 October 2007 7:41 GMT - Greenpeace has published a detailed report on the un-environmentally friendly qualities of Apple’s iPhone, which has led to the company being sued. [...]

If you are having a mobile run with JAVA operating system then I have cool news for you. You can run a Skype client on that and you can use all the functionalities including VOIP calls via your mobile phone. As per the iSkoot, this new Skype client can [...]

Following vacancies exist at the GMI’s Engineering Facility Located at Colombo, Sri Lanka Build & Release Engineer (1 Seat)UI Engineer (1 Seat)Action Script developer (1 – 2 Seats) Build & Release Engineer [...]

Following article was published in the International Herald Tribune recently. Sometimes back another article was there on Wipro’s new development facility in USA. Successive governments in SL mentioned the term IT Nation on their election campaigns but never initiated anything favor for IT companies. Sri Lanka’s total earnings through IT related exports yet to reach [...]

I’ve uncovered some valuable information from the SLT ADSL customer care. I had a nice chat with one of their executives to fix a small problem. Please find the information below; I’ve noticed unusual delay when it comes to the responses with the SLT ADSL for the last couple of weeks. [...]

What will be the future of BlackBerry? this is the first question came in to my mind when I saw this article for the first time. It seems that Google is trying to end another era and going to create a one by their own. Google’s email service, Gmail can now be offered [...]

Azim Premji – CEO India Every company normally faces one common problem of high employee turnout ratio. People are leaving the company for better pay, better profile or simply for just one reason ‘pak gaya’. This article might just throw some light on the matter…… Early this year, Arun, an old friend who is [...]

By Todd Anten Salespeople have a variety of pitches they can make when selling a product. It’s just a matter of deciding which pitch is the right one for that customer. Now, think of a potential employer as a customer and yourself as the salesperson — and the product. In order to [...]

Do’s and Don’ts for Online Resumes As a job seeker in the electronic age, it’s important to be savvy when it comes to online tools that will help you land your next job. Online and “traditional” off-line resumes share some similarities. Both serve to show potential employers why you are the [...]

In recent past I used to interview nearly 250 – 300 candidates for just five vacant positions. All of them were graduates with good grades but none of their CVs were detail enough for us to identify their capabilities at very beginning. Ultimately it cost us about 300 man hours (collectively) without getting [...]

By Hank Green [...]

RIM has announced its BlackBerry Mobile Voice System (MVS), which promises to make the BlackBerry smartphone an extension of an enterprise’s PBX system.At its annual user conference, the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES), RIM said on Tuesday that MVS would enable access to PBX functionality through a “new intuitive menu interface” and allow users to have [...]

Dialog will launch their WiMax services ahead of rival SLT during the month of May. They have already completed their trial runs and looking forward to commence it commercially by mid May. What I heard was that [...]

One of my friends came to me and given me the following link last week. Oh man its great. You can type something in “singlish” and you can obtain the Unicode of its in Sinhala. Rather than keeping it in secret, decided to introduce this cool tool to everybody. [...]

Sri Lankan youths and cooperate sector will experience somewhat acceptable service from their telecom service providers in years to come. This was signaled at the very beginning of the 07. 1. Sri Lanka’s Premier Cellular Network Celltel Re-brands as tigo 2. SLT is going to make ADSL an island [...]

Yuhooo… It seems SLT has finally identified the taste of Sri Lankans…. They are going to make this ADSL service available island wide….Not a lie, see the link below…http://www.slt.lk/data/forhome/106adsl_areas.asp Another issue… Couple of days back they said they are rely on 1 GIG connectivity to the international backbone…. That means they are [...]

Following article was available on the yahoo (http://biz.yahoo.com/). What a nice saying “Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data”; read it carefully, you’ll get the reason for me to re-publish it over here. The best ideas don’t matter if no one pays attention. Here’s how you [...]

Received a mail containing couple of images and with a subject of “Developers’ approach in fixing defects” Awesome… I was searching for couple of images to express the same, but ultimately my wife forwarded these to me.

Wishing you all a very happy new year!!!I found couple of good articles on the web.1. GMI (Global Market Insite Inc.), a Seattle, Washington based software development firm started their operations in Sri Lanka. They started their operations by setting up a dedicated development centre for their existing product line. Good news for local IT [...]

Earlier 26th December was the boxing day for us. If you are a Sri Lankan and a cricket fan, then its with your memories for sometimes. But from 2004 onwards things got changed due to the Asian Killer Tsunami. It destroyed almost everything and taken hundreds of thousands of [...]

Warren Buffett - Finfacts Businessperson of the Year 2006By Michael Hennigan, Editor and Founder of FinfactsDec 3, 2006, 14:43 Bill Gates and Warren Buffett answering questions from business students at the University of Nebraska Legendary American investor Warren Buffett (b. 1930) is to business what Nelson Mandela has been to [...]