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Comment Re:ITIL (Score 1) 168

Sound advice so far. I would add, get the engineers to spend time designing the back end architecture up front. Design before you code. The same goes for UI, don't start writing UI until you have it all drawn up and vetted with your USERS (different than customers). You don't have to do this yourself, look for a techwriter, QA person that can communicate and has a little artistic talent and draft them into the role of UI designer if you must. Don't get fancy (unless you have to), paper prototypes can be vetted with users and have almost zero cost to change.

Comment 60% is probably an exageration, but MS might ... (Score 1) 662

MS might have issues.
1. Vista will be used largely on new 64bit systems, MS probably planned this for an itanium based 64 bit and is now rewritting lots of it for AMD 64 bit.
2. MS has been loosing many of thier best and brightest to startups, they don't pay particularyly well and the days of becoming a stock zillionaire are largely over
3. When I go to tech conferences I'm seeing more early adopter types using macs (say 10% instead of 3-5% 3 years ago). This is very bad for MS they actually need to come out with something superior to the mac, and their initial threat of breaking legacy sw with vista is going to have to change.

 

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