兩天的技術研討會於萬隆

前兩個禮拜咱們組員跟公司的一個高級副總裁討論門禁卡的如何改善過程, 發現他不但很有知識, 而且有巨大的經驗, 在短短的三四個會儀內, 他有教我們如何做正確的思維, 包括提出問題，建立猜想與假設，制定計劃，獲取事實與證據，檢驗與評價，他也有講過程呢, 事先要把它標準化和簡單化, 才帶來科技把過程自動化..最後他也有教過如何表達至高級官員來爭取將來的實施資源.. 寶貴的一課也..

這兩天我在萬隆參加了技術研討會, 相當沉重的話題.. 其項目為IT管理框架, 戰略規劃過程, 指導原則, 技術標準合規流程, 系統保費管理.. 聽完了他的演講, 真佩服! 我自己本身一開始也不敢相信他曾經在麻州理工學院讀, 還有在麥肯公司做了四年.. 果然名不虛傳.. 希望公司能保留這兩個才華..

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不知所措

今天我被老闆罵了一頓，明天跟他見面時最好別提這件事情。。唉，明天要搭早班的飛機，到現在還沒準備收拾行李呢。剛跟朋友約好見見面吃頓飯，不好意思拒絕，而現在在車上要回了。。

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Agile Method – 敏捷軟件開發..

Last week’s Tech Day reminds me of my college days, Kent Beck and its manisfesto, all-in-all, the speaker focused on agile methods of software development, how increasingly irrelevant SDLC these days, and how iterative approach, rapid and flexible response to change going to benefit the bank going forward. i’d say that this method is more suitable for software house, and i think we should consider this method only to those customer facing that frequently requires fix, enhancements, e.g internet banking or mobile app..

in summary; we’ll need to use appropriate tools strategically, i think balanced approach to use SDLC for big & complex software, Agile for websites, mobile app and software enhancements (software on which most of the desired requirements of the end product cannot be determined until part of the solution is developed)

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Amazon EC2 Trial

I think AWS can be more expensive when it comes to spec out something similar to dedicated server offerings. However I do not think Amazon is pushing AWS as a “cheaper dedicated server replacement”.

Instead, AWS is making CPU power, storage, bandwidth, etc a “commodity”. They are “cheap enough”, yet easy and fast to provision, deploy and use. It is usually more convenient to just connect to the electricity grid — it will make my life much easier, and much more capable to scale up and down with my own demand.

Good thing is that they provide free-trial for myself to have an insight, and with various products they provide, i think the learning curve is quite steep and initially i don’t really know where to start.. so i’ve searched the web around and eventually landed in the EC2 Mgt console where i can just quickly setup a server, its OS flavor (i’ve chose Amazon Linux AMI – yet another linux flav), storage capacity (def 8GB), setting up public/private key pairs and voila!..

i timed myself from initial setup to console login within 10minutes time.. it’s amazing.. i think it’s time to buy amazon stock.. haha 😀

“Gartner Research positions Amazon Web Services in the Leaders Quadrant of the new Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (October 2012). Cloud IaaS, in the context of this Magic Quadrant, is defined as “computing resources, along with associated storage and network resources, offered to the customer via self-service in a highly-automated way, on-demand.”

http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1CK3ZQT&ct=121019&st=sb

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