Wiki's haven't grown up yet

March 16th, 2010

Searching for some competitive wiki overviews, the top sites that google showed were:

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Attack the collaboration emails

March 11th, 2010

I've seen on many projects how email communication is still the number 1 choice when it comes to online communication. The gigabytes of requirements, specifications, meeting minutes, user documentation, test cases send in emails must be staggering. Read more

Is WordonWiki a wiki?

March 8th, 2010

The original article of Ward Cunningham defines a wiki as "The simplest online database that could possibly work.". There is also a longer version that goes as follows: Read more

Confront the brutal facts: Five ways to measure your wiki's success.

February 19th, 2010

When you are introducing a wiki, you want to know how you are doing. Also you may like to confront your team with the actual usage numbers. You can only improve, what you measure. Read more

Wikis in Plain English

January 26th, 2010

In case you haven't seen this one, it surely is a great introduction to wiki's: what are they used for, and how to do it. It currently has 1,049,386 views and rising!

Some of the 480+ comments:

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Organisational Wiki Adoption

January 10th, 2010

This is a very good presentation by Mike Cannon-Brookes from Atlassian. Read more

An unclean soul is loosed upon the realm of the living

January 6th, 2010

As part of our intelligence gathering, we monitor the twitter feeds on MSWord. What is so utterly surprising is the level of 'pure hate' some people feel for the thing. Just to put my point across, here are some of the random tweets I gathered in a random 8 hour period:Read more

Dare to say what nobody dares to say

December 26th, 2009

Dare to say what nobody dares to say

Some times I come across a blog post that is so ad rem that I wish I had written it myself. One such blog post is "Thoughts on wikis" which you can find on the iperimeter blog.

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The 'Dear Erica' letter

November 14th, 2009

We rely a lot on the RentaCoder and Odesk networks for your work. Both networks have their advantages:

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An unforgiving tale of extremes

October 25th, 2009

My world friends

They are many, Salman, Nagesh, Pavan, Matjaz, Umair, Masood and not to forget Vicky (who I secretly suspect is really a man). All have top level rails qualifications. Or so they say.

They are all part of the growing network of developers from the East. India, Pakistan, Slovenia, and so on.

If you’re considering outsourcing part of your product development, I can offer you some insights that were learned the hard way. To summarize, working with outsourcing partners is a story of extremes:Read more