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Comment on Bad Functional Specifications by Giovanni

Giovanni — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:21:01 +0000

Something worse than receiving a bad functional requirements document is to be required to participate in the FR sessions for long hours seeing people creating these wonderful documents. It’s impossible to feel productive.

Comment on SIA Show: Some Random Comments by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:02:14 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Agile Selling or Selling Agile ? by Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:40:32 +0000

So I am still confused. What exactly is agile selling? Is it effective? Does it work? I am in IT and I hear agile selling often but never quite understand what it means. I look forward to your reply.

Thanks,
Mike

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Comment on Agile Team Scaling by PM Hut

PM Hut — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:22:42 +0000

How do you usually coordinate communication between these teams, and what role takes the responsibility for this?

Comment on Bank Of New York Been Busy .. by newyorkscot

newyorkscot — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:23:37 +0000

maybe no news is good news !!! Did you see this: http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/09/24/bank-mellon-lehman-markets-equity-cx_cg_0924markets24.html

Comment on Bank Of New York Been Busy .. by Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:58:39 +0000

I haven’t heard much out of the BONY during the last few weeks – I wonder if they are facing a capital liquidity crunch right now as well. They seem like a much more conservative bank than some of the larger wall street players.

Comment on How To Be A Good Customer by Duethybub

Duethybub — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:55:13 +0000

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Comment on It’s The Stupid Economy by Kalani

Kalani — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:28:37 +0000

Hilarious! Maybe the funniest Daily Show bit yet.

The Suze Orman, $24K robot was an especially nice touch.

Comment on New SEC Regulation on Short-Selling Causing a Stir by Babak

Babak — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:58:04 +0000

In my recent blog post [ http://babaksjournal.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-efficient-shorting-tactic.html ], I propose a hopefully more efficient tactic for shorting involving setting up a net hedged position in 2 separate brokerage accounts. The tactic is designed to mitigate the regulatory hurdles that make it difficult to time the short sale of a hard-to-borrow stock.

Short sellers might find the idea useful.

Comment on Bad Functional Specifications by newyorkscot

newyorkscot — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:56:05 +0000

win – it was a bit of a vent, but I will eventually get round to putting a decent post together as you describe.

Specifics will of course vary on the type of system you are building, but there is a lot of standard concepts that can be followed and used across most situations. These include things like use cases/stories and workflow descriptions / diagrams (interation diagrams, aka swim lanes, are also very good to focus business users on their logic) to build up a list of functional requirements that can be organized (or grouped) into either end-user functionality, dependent functionality, or components/services.This would lead to the creation of a prioritized “backlog” of actionable requirements. Initial specifications around performance (throughput, latency), no. users, geographic coverage, etc would also be nice to get a handle on upfront.

I think one of the biggest problems with specifications is the lack of decent organization and clarity of thought. I would prefer to start with people writing down in very simple terms what the end-user (thinks they) wants and when they want it rather than sitting around waiting for them to come up with something in a vacuum. And then work with them to flesh the specs out in a format a dev team can understand and use. I also find that when given the chance, good dev teams have good creativity and can come up with slick / flexible alternates that might be quicker to implement. Using use cases as the organizing principle to build “end to end” code is also key.

All for now ……

Comment on Bad Functional Specifications by win

win — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:06:50 +0000

Funny Read
Would you mind putting up another post telling people exactly what you want. You told everyone what not to add in the doc but that’s not much help. If you have the time add the things you do want people to add to the doc. In this way you will get exactly what you want.

Comment on Prime Brokerage Article by Richard Wilson, Prime Brokerage Blogger

Richard Wilson, Prime Brokerage Blogger — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:50:21 +0000

Prime brokerage is the biggest banking business that most people have never heard of. I like your post above and part of my job is writing two articles on prime brokerage trends each week, would it be possible to use the above content as a guest post and link back here to you? Thank you for the consideration and your time.

- Richard
Richard Wilson

Comment on Prime Brokerage Article by Ron

Ron — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:49:50 +0000

very interesting, found this article a bit late but Im sure not much has changed in a few short months. thanks for posting this! www.BrokergeAgencies.info

Comment on Nasdaq Data Replay Service by Vinny Carpenter’s blog - » Daily del.icio.us for March 10th through March 12th

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:01:53 +0000

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Comment on Really Massive Complex Event Processing by chris martins

chris martins — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:24:41 +0000

They are using Progress Sonic messaging software for some of the infrastructure at CERN.
http://www.webservices.org/vendors/progress_sonic/cern_selects_progress_software_s_sonic_platform

Comment on The Chait Chat on Microsoft’s Financial Services Blog by Lab49 Blog » Blog Archive » The Chait Chat on Microsoft’s Financial Services Blog

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:40:00 +0000

[...] Lab49’s Daniel Chait gets some great coverage on the Microsoft’s Developer & Evangelism Platform – Financial Services blog: Building up to the Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference – The Chait Chat [...]

Comment on BEA Event Server Fixed Income Demo by newyorkscot

newyorkscot — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:41:16 +0000

thanks – the functionality, especially the pie chart, is an innovation of our own (Lab49’s) making mainly to show the range of capabilities and potential for WPF-based applications, but also to conceptualize what many people do actually need on trading and risk mgt desks. For instance, we know that many buy-side portfolio managers do need simulation and visualization tools for large portfolios. We also know that buy- and sell-side organizations do have the need to visualize real-time streaming data (whether it is text-based – like news, trends, IMs, etc – or live charting, or numerical). So, the answer comes down to 2 things a) it is the first cut at a simulation tool so it does lack some functionality (like the ability to change market conditions, or reinvestment strategies, or more detailed decomposition analysis, for example), but b) it is not vaporware so if someone really did want this we could actually run this on someone’s desktop hooked up to their market data and portfolio.

Comment on BEA Event Server Fixed Income Demo by mailsamd

mailsamd — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:15:10 +0000

have to say, these demos look very ‘attractive’ if thats the right word, but I assume they are not an actual representation of what ends up on the users desktop right?

Comment on Prime Brokerage Article by Robert

Robert — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:04:55 +0000

Well, I cant agree more.