- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on August 16, 2010
This video is masterfully animated by hand-drawing which is really following the short 10 minute story about a classical organizational approach to motivation which shows bad performance results for everything except the operational tasks, and how we should approach motivating our teams for the creative tasks, which are very important in ICT. Scrum already has some of this things included in its practices.
You can view the video here, or click below.
I would like to thank my associate for sharing this. He learned of this video during his CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) training, where he saw it.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on August 14, 2010
This year I was invited as a speaker in the Microsoft Dynamics area for the annual Microsoft conference Sinergija (Sinergy).
I have been a regular speaker at Sinergija since 2007 when I held 3 tracks, and I got to amazing 5 tracks in 2008, and then back to 3 tracks in 2009.
What was important in 2009 is that one of my associates held one track, and I am really proud of this, and even prouder because this year tracks of two of my associates have already been approved.
Information about me was published on front page of Sinergija's webs
ite and you can find full article in their lecturer series. They also published this on Sinergija's Facebook Page and in their Facebook lecturer album.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on August 9, 2010
There is a nice article on CIO about effects of projects that don't get finished:
Project Management: When Good IT Projects Go Bad: "Problem projects--killed, euthanized or launched with disappointing results--can leave techies with unresolved feelings that linger for years."
Article is about 6 printed pages long, and it outlines communication as one of key factors in reducing bad effects. In my experience, communication is one of the key tools inside ICT (e.g. Scrum in development projects) department, but also in ICT's cooperation with the rest of the company.
I think it is worth the read and might help you achieve best scenario by Vince Lombardi: "….I firmly believe that any man’s finest hours – his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear – is that moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious".
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on July 31, 2010
I previously wrote about keyboard shortcuts for Dynamics AX 2009 when we created our own poster with two pages (one for the typical user and one for developers).
I recently found one really impressive visual poster with shortcuts for the typical user of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. You can download it here.
The use of the shortcuts is very important for people who spend much time in computer work. Keyboard shortcuts increase productivity greatly, but also have a good effect on mouse usage RSI (Repeated Stress Injury) prevention.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on July 29, 2010
We wanted to include the complexity analysis in our CI (Continuous Integration) environment within the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009. This is especially important for us, as we are very agile (more than 3 years of Scrum), and have top notch technical environment to support this in the .NET world (Microsoft Visual Studio with Team System).
We were missing software quality indicators which can help developers check their code in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 environment. Now together with the existing CI tools in DAX (Dynamics AX) technology has enabled better software quality which is very important in the lean approach, because your work quality is not only affecting end-user, but also the others who work on it during the process, which in software production can be many people.
I knew of great tool that was created for Dynamics AX 2004 that supports software metrics like: Cyclomatic Complexity, Lack of Cohesion of Methods, Number of Source Lines, Comment Percentage. I tried to add it to our environment, but found some issues. These were easily fixed using DAX's Code comparison tools. You can download the updated version here (110 kb). It also includes the short manual (2 steps) for user setup. Just unzip the archive, import the XPO (choosing to overwrite the existing elements).
If you have time, take a look at good grad paper from the original tool author can be found.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on July 18, 2010
I recently found nice and funny quiz about IT security on CIO website, which I am following.
Quiz is nicely done, with decent questions (Firewalls, VPNs, SSL, PKI, encryption, etc.), and provides some explanations of answers.
You can check it here: http://www.cio.com/article/598399/Quiz_Do_You_Know_IT_Security_?page=1#slideshow
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on April 25, 2010
Few weeks ago I have been notified by Microsoft that I have been selected as MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Dynamics AX. This is a great honour for me, especially with so few MVPs in Microsoft Dynamics AX field. I will do my best to continue helping the community in future, as I did in past.
Here is a quote from Microsoft MVP website explaining this award:
Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized the inspiring activities of MVPs around the world with the MVP Award. MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial, objective feedback to help people enhance the way they use technology. Of more than 100 million users who participate in technology communities, around 4,000 are recognized as Microsoft MVPs.
MVPs make exceptional contributions to technical communities, sharing their passion, knowledge, and know-how. Meanwhile, because MVPs hear the opinions and needs of many others in the technical community, they are well-placed to share highly focused feedback with Microsoft...
My Microsoft MVP profile can be found here.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on April 21, 2010
In the aftermath of our success with the big jump from version 3 to version 5 of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009, we have extended our winning streak by winning the Serbian Association of Software Engineering’s Plaque for Innovation in Business use of IT.
For that matter I’ve been an honoured guest in the national radio show Digital Icons along with other winners.
Also the national television made a report on the Plaque winners during the final ceremony and can be seen here. A new company that specializes in electronic media also made the report which can be seen here.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on March 14, 2010
After upgrading of my blog to BlogEngine.NET 1.6, I picked up a new version of source code and got my hands dirty with my modification to SocialBookmarks extension.
My primary goal was to add support for Google Buzz, using Google Reader sharing. I also did some refactoring (IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) better readability and increased maintainability with reduced code size by 1/3)), cleaned HTML a little, and worked on issue with images path, so you can now leave it blank.
Here is the complete file with all images (including Google Buzz and Facebook): SocialBookmarks v1.2.zip (104.31 kb). Just unzip it to directory where your BlogEngine.NET is installed.
- Posted by Bojan Jovičić on February 21, 2010
After all our last year’s success crowned by winning the Discobulos award once more, I was invited for an interview with eKapija, one of the most appreciated Serbian business online magazines. It was a great honor to be offered such an opportunity, especially for “Who is who” section.
After the interview was published I was surprised to see it rapidly become quite popular, later the article of the month in its category and eventually the most popular interview ever published on eKapija.
Here is the link: http://www.ekapija.com/website/sr/page/290332