Lino Tadros (CEO) and John Waters (CTO) had the pleasure of presenting the new release of ActiveFocus 2008 Q3 this week in Denver Colorado at the PMI Conference.  The product received rave reviews for its elegance, ease of use and speed.  Stay tuned for the release of the product to the public in the next week.

I am very proud to announce that our CTO, John Waters was nominated for the Kerzner International Project Manager of the year Award.

The purpose of the Kerzner International Project Manager of the Year™ Award is to recognize a project manager who has exemplified superior performance and outstanding project management methods, skills, and techniques, and their important contributions in business, industry, government community or not-for-profit environments. The award, established in 2006 by IIL, is named in honor of Dr. Harold Kerzner, Professor of Systems Management at Baldwin-Wallace College. He is a globally recognized expert on project management, total quality management, and strategic planning and the author of the best-selling books about project management.

John has been an incredible asset to Falafel during the last 5 years and his leadership and Project Management ability have pushed the company to new heights and still growing.

Congratulations! John for the nomination and best of luck.  I don't know anyone more deserving of this award!

With projects, as with most other things in life, only one thing is certain, and that is change. This blog talks about how to cope with change using tools like Falafel Software's ActiveFocus.

Saw this article, The Myth of the Interchangeable Programmer. It runs along the lines of the famous Mythical Man Month book by Fred Books, this time applied to off shoring.

Bottom line is that you may find that one developer may be doing 60% of the work of the team, or three developers 80%, and the more people you add to the team, the more you slow down the people who are actually getting something done. The author thinks that from his own experience, a team of eight is the max. I agree. (obviously, for huge projects, you need several teams, but he elaborates on that too).

It is funny, because a client just told me our rate for a senior WPF engineer was way out of their range, and they were looking to outsource it off shore...good luck to them! This is difficult, leading edge technology, and the kind of area where one good senior architect can do something in a week that could take a team of less experienced people months to do.