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Large teams need managers - to deal with the inter-department side of things and the company admin - but I don't think specifically "project" managers.
With the right tools and the attitude to show everything (online Kanban boards, burn-down charts and test coverage and results) and strong scrum masters you should be fine. With good collaborative software this can be achieved.
(And it is financially worth doing - I think my experience is 1-7 project managers to project workers is the usual ratio)
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The BBC has today introduced a range of computing and coding-related shows, games and competitions for kids designed to help improve their understanding and enjoyment of the subjects. Kids these days! Spoiled! Back in my day all we had was Mr. Dressup and The Friendly Giant
Mind you, Mr. Dressup was way cool, but Casey was a psycho.
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Microsoft has increased the OneDrive file size upload limit from 2GB to an unspecified new maximum, a new report suggests today. People are posting files larger than 2GB in "the Cloud"? What are they, PowerPoint?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What are they, PowerPoint? Starting from which version, can you embed virtual machines in PowerPoint?
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Judging from the size of the last few I was sent, I'd say at least 2010. Then again, I have some idi... clients who send me screenshots in PowerPoint, because "they know how to email powerpoint files, but not graphics."
TTFN - Kent
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This is a new low for me. Microsoft have attempted to part of the concept of immutability. Hopefully they will be derailed by prior art, but if not this has worrying implications for the programming language community - if Patents can be obtained on PL ideas, it will prevent new languages evolving the ideas in existing languages.
Lambda the Ultimate[^] has a discussion and links.
I for one will be writing to Microsoft to let them know my feelings on this.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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All the patent system is wrong - people lack of any knowledge approve applications if fee payed and time passed. And of course companies with enough money make use of it - Microsoft joined the train it seems...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Microsoft’s MSN Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger as it’s now known, will be fully retired on October 31st. Oh, no. Whatever can we use as a substitute?
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FTFY...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Communicator was nice, but Live Messenger was awful. We use Jabber[^] @ work.
/ravi
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Lync at work.
Really don't use anything outside of there...
Oh, wait!!! Text messages...
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I liked Windows Live Messenger...they moved all our accounts to Skype...now we never use it.
It was 'NetMeeting' before it was Messenger.
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Hangout is what we use. Text message and for Video conferences
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I have recently found myself using IRC lately... kind of like bell-bottoms in a way
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Henry Smith, a software engineer from Bristol, has been working on a game called — wait for it, 1980s movie fans — "Global Thermonuclear War." He was drawing concepts on a whiteboard, which proved to be unfortunate, since someone mistook it for a plan to nuke Washington, D.C. "Shall we play a game?"
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I'm surprised they haven't done a remake of that movie yet...probably offends the political correct...then again, they did a remake of 'Red Dawn'.
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I'd definitely appreciate an updated version of that. There is definitely newish direction you could go to with current hacker/cracker culture.
I avoided the remake of Red Dawn on the other hand. How could you improve on the greatest movie ever in the history of cinema? (WOLVERINES!)
TTFN - Kent
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Totally with you on Red Dawn...I don't think they could ever capture the feel of a cold war invasion the way the original did...it was totally part of the times..."Avenge me boys! Avenge me!"
War Games could definitely use an update...the guy running his little dialer proggy through the modem...could turn it into a port scanner on the net or something.
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I've played the game for a while. When people aren't messing around too much (drawing phalluses and such), it often sort of mirrors current political tensions.
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We love surveys because they give us a chance to talk to a bunch of real-world customers and community members about their development habits for specific scenarios. For the "if it ain't broke" crowd
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A useful survey. Thanks for the link!
/ravi
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Microsoft has once again declined a US court order regarding the handing over of customer emails stored offshore, and will continue to fight the order. "Breaking me out of the spell I was in, making all of my wishes come true."
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Work on the next version of ASP.NET continues. It's a world of Alpha software, Git commits, breaking changes, and daily builds. I'm guessing... angle brackets?
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How else would you find out what behavioral and physiological changes might have taken place when fish first made the move from sea to land over 400 million years ago? You can get a fish to walk, but you can't make it use the fire hydrant
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Overwhelming evidence documents a tendency toward cost and effort overruns in software projects. On average, this overrun seems to be around 30 percent. We do know a lot of people are really bad at estimating (or is it just me?)
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