The Random Musings

Wendy and I traveled up to Massachusetts yesterday to get a 2nd viewing on a property in Uxbridge.  Suffice to say it passed the test and we put an offer in.  It is amazing how quickly you go from the elation of “we found a very nice place to live and want to buy the [...]

Yesterday Wendy received a call from our Realtor to let us know that the low baller had decided to come back with a better offer.  It seems that we shall accept this and now the fun begins.  He is still looking for an aggressive closing, end of June, but at least school will be done [...]

One of my goals is to provide a methodology site at work for people who want some form of reference for our Agile process.  I am using the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF), and further utilizing the Scrum Plugin that someone developed.
The initial Scrum contribution was great, but there is still some work needed to push [...]

It was during the Sprint review for 6 teams that had finished their first sprint, when I heard one of the team members mention that they “would need to discuss improvements with the Product Owner”.  Seems like a less than stellar moment.  However, to hear a team member use the term “Product Owner” in their [...]

Yesterday we received our first offer on the house.  Okay, offer is a generous term, it was more like “please contribute to our charity”.
Anyway, the advise from our realtor was “do not take offers personally, and certainly do not feel offended“.  The other notable quote of the day was from the buyers agent “We have [...]

I stumbled upon a great service that provides a simple, elegant and responsive interface to allow you to record and track your growing list of tasks.  The service is RememberTheMilk.com and allows the usual things associated with tracking todo lists (i.e. the lists, the tasks, due dates and priorities).

It also provides some nice extras . [...]