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Grasshopper Government

A common idea shared by a lot of businesses is that working on government projects is slow and burdensome. One of my contacts in a national government emailed me with the following quote: It’s not true that things happen slowly in government. Rather, things happen quickly but very infrequently. Our mascot should be the frog …

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Expanding My Services

After a bunch of planning, I’m adding new services to Little Stream Software for Redmine. I’ve already done these informally for clients but now they’re available separately from my Custom Software Development. System Architecture Blueprints Every project needs planning. Waterfall calls this the Requirements and Design stage. Agile calls this Iteration 0 and Iteration Planning. …

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New Contractor Questions

I talk to a lot of people online, some of them want to help me or work with me as a contractor. Over the past year, I’ve assembled a set of questions I ask them in order to get a better idea of them and the kind of work they do. I’ve found their answers …

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