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KimChin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 02, 2018 4:10 am Hey Paris, did we work together at S&W in the shielding group, or do I have the wrong Paris?

I did work for S&W (SWEC) for a few years right out of college, so most probably you have the right Paris The group was called Radiation Protection.

I also had a chance to both study with and later work with George for a while. Not only a great scientist, but a also a good person. I saw that he was honored by HPS. It could not have happened to a better person!

I think it's like getting a college degree. Getting a degree from *any* college is considered better than having no degree at all. However, getting a degree form a reputable, well known accredited college is usually considered better.

I believe that 4 week sprints is what scrum (Ken Schwaber) prescribes as a good sprint. However, we have used 1,2,3 and 4 week sprints and our experience has been a that: 1 week sprint is sometimes too short to complete the team commitments, 2 weeks appears to be the sweet spot for most projects. We...

WarrenT wrote:Any recommendations for software tools that one can use to create architect diagrams? Open source (free) would be preferred

DIA is a very good open source program for creating all sorts of diagrams, like UMLs, Use Case diagrams, Entity relationship diagrams, sequence diagrams, etc.

There is nothing wrong with the visual. At a very high level abstraction, that's what most web-app architectures would look like. The user interfaces with the website and the website ferries info back and forth to one or more databases, crunches some results and communicated the results to the user.

Here is a list of recommended Agile books.

A Pareto chart, named after Vilfredo Pareto, is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual values are represented in descending order by bars, and the cumulative total is represented by the line. Pareto charts are extremely useful for analyzing what problems need atte...

There are many versions of the "triangle" that people use. Traditional plan-driven projects are based on the triangle of Time, Cost and Quality. All requirements have to be accounted for in the requirement phase and then the project is planned around the expected features to be delivered w...