Grady Booch

If you've never heard of Grady Booch...well, there's a good chance you wouldn't be here......like DeMarco, Yourdon, List and all the other greats - Grady is a Master level, old school, IT genius.....for a more definitive background, check wikipedia (where else would you go): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch

I just happened to come across his podcast, the reason for this post - a must listen for all you real IT people out there: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitecture?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=examines+the+triage+process&utm_content=meade.rubenstein%40yahoo.com&utm_campaign=CN+November+17%2C+2010

Also found on iTunes Podcasts......of course

Time Zones

The risks and complexities of Project Management evolve around communication. How do we effectively communicate needs, updates, feedback, priorities, expectations, etc. A new twist to this, really not that new – but one that I’m currently appreciating more, is the way the world works, specifically time zones. Talking across time zones includes talking across cultures……in addition to being on a call before you wake up talking to someone who’s ready to go home, think of all the common understandings that don’t exist. I recently had a review of some quiz functionality being set up, one of the questions was about vegetables….it took a few minutes to realize the foreign word entered was a local, well known, vegetable. If you can’t both understand what the local potato is, what makes you think you can understand anything more complex? On the positive side, I got a quick intro to some local Indian blue looking, squash looking, potato something that is apparently feeding a good portion of the world’s population.