(Or shrink your windows partition, and then run it virtualized)
Internet ...
URL restrictions
Limits on concurrent connections
(probably unintentional) URL mangling
You might want to buy a 4G modem
Hairball
Two hairs unite. Then they're joined by another. And another.
And another. Before long, where there was once nothing, this
tangled, impenetrable mass has begun to form"
-- Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball
The Team
The Team
Manager
Project Manager
Business Analysts
Systems Administrators
Sales / Marketing
Finance
End Users
Find your project a champion
Project Management
Project Management
Temper your progress reporting ...
Remember these are all tasks:
planning
reading
documenting
testing
selecting
prototyping
Run multiple phases in parallel
Strange Requirements
Strange Requirements
Sometimes there as a legacy requirement
Sometimes because a competing product does it
Sometimes it's just been in Gartner / Infoworld / etc
Better to say Yes than No
Better to say No than not answer the question ...
Surviving Success
Surviving Success
Outgrowing requirements
Ongoing Maintenance
Integration
Handover ...
The Good News
Open Data — 1
Large systems starting to open up
ODBC → SOAP → oData
SAP oData
oData is RESTful, fairly horrible syntax for querying
