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Imagine Cup Success for OneBeep

Posted by James Valentine in Uncategorized on July 26th, 2010

I've recently returned from Poland, as mentor for the rather fantastic Team OneBeep - New Zealand's finalist in the Microsoft Imagine Cup. 69 teams from around the world were in Warsaw as finalists i

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PaaS on Google – more services, more opportunities

Posted by James Valentine in Cloud Computing, Software Development, Technology on May 28th, 2010

Last week saw a steady stream of big announcements out of Google I/O. Of particular interest are the announcements relating to Platform as a Service: API for Google Latitude: a programmatic way

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Changing Enterprise Through Projects. Are Projects Evil?

Posted by Darko Bohinc in Architecture, Project Management on May 10th, 2010

Many organisations use "Projects" as the tool for enabling change and realising benefits within their Organisation. It seems to be the "silver bullet" that will solve all of the organisation's proble

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Imagine a trip to Poland!

Posted by James Valentine in Uncategorized on May 4th, 2010

I've been mentoring a team in Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition - an international competition for tertiary students which "encourages young people to apply their imagination, their passion and the

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VMforce cloud – the Sky’s the “Limit”

Posted by Stephen Chan in Cloud Computing, Software Development on April 28th, 2010

With Salesforce.com and VMware's recent announcement of the "world's first Enterprise Java cloud" comes another opportunity to re-assess how we build, deploy and run our Java code in the cloud. Having

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How many architectures do you see?

Posted by Darko Bohinc in Architecture on April 23rd, 2010

Defining and especially agreeing on what the term "architecture" means and represents, within organisations that do not produce brick-and-mortar structures, seems to be a never ending struggle. The sa

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More unconferencing in Wellington – NZ Google Barcamp and CloudCamp

Posted by Desiree Purvis in Cloud Computing on March 11th, 2010

Whew!  Things are really humming here in Wellington! No sooner did we finish saying Goong Hei Fat Choi to kick off the Year of the Tiger, than the beat of drums on the water signalled frantic padd

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Wellington APN presentation: Agile – it works!

Posted by Desiree Purvis in Agile, Business Analysis, Project Management on March 10th, 2010

Ex-Frondie Ceedee Doyle, in conjunction with the Wellington chapter of the Agile Professionals Network, will be presenting her experiences of using Agile techniques on a real-life project.  Using the

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Want to learn Agile from the creator of Scrum?

Posted by Carolyn Sanders in Agile on February 2nd, 2010

As an Agile practitioner and coach, I'm often asked how to get Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification, since it's quite hard to find an official course in NZ.   Most of the time Certified Scrum

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Top 10 for 2010

Posted by Carolyn Sanders in Cloud Computing, Summary, Technology on December 23rd, 2009

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future" - Niels Bohr, Danish Physicist A few weeks ago we asked Fronde's top thinkers for their predictions for 2010, both in the IT industry and

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