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Wrong answer! We don’t care. That is, presenting Yoda Rowan Manahan (to whom I am a mere presenting padawan) and I don’t care. Rowan explains why in an excellent post titled “I don’t care how you make the sausages“. “Hhhmm… Bullet points…. Harrumph… Generic graphics… A presenting Jedi seeks not these things.” […] Activity Diagram tutorial part 3 View more PowerPoint from Declan Chellar Related posts: System Use Case or Screen Flow? Using activity diagrams to model use cases What NOT to put in your Activity Diagram […] I just saw an advertisement for a position with the following headline: Team Leader / Manager /Business Analyst At the bottom of the page it listed the required skills: C#/.NET, Documentation, Application Design This tells me that the hiring manager thinks a BA is a programmer who can write a sentence. If the significance of […] I have little time and less respect for lazy recruitment agencies. That is largely because I used to run a recruitment programme for a deliver centre within a global company and I know how much agencies get paid for a successful candidate. At the time, I got tired of […] LinkedIn likes to let me know about jobs that match my profile, but it seems to do it simply on the basis that I live in Madrid, so most of them are of no interest whatsoever. However, although I am not looking for a permanent position, if a vacancy for a […] More spoutings from semi-literate journalists. Coalition tensions flare over immigration People at Reuters: tempers flare, tensions build. Seriously, how hard is it for professional journalists to write well? Journalists: ‘Infer’ is to ‘Hear’ as ‘Imply’ is to ‘Say’. “With the logo changed to infer that the website was founded in 1911…” The Telegraph You do not infer anything by what you say or write, you imply it. It is up to the listener or the reader to make their own inference. By this […] Why do people send contact requests on LinkedIn without the courtesy of a personal message? If you don’t know me, why would you not introduce yourself? If you know me, why would you not include a personal message? If you knew me years ago, why would you not take a moment to remind me? Sending […] Male analysts should be more like women, that is. When a woman listens to another woman’s problems, she lends a sympathetic ear and actually comes to understand the problem. When a man listens to a woman’s problems, he is rarely actually listening. Rather he is trying to figure out […] The Blackberry is supposedly a great communications tool of the 21st century. The truth is that it is not a communications tool. It is a distraction device. This device is the solution that to allows us to receive our emails wherever we are, whenever we are. But what was the need that required this solution? […] |