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Why Our Clients Select Open Source
While open source software is pretty common these days in small and mid-size organizations, it tends to be seen as "terra incognita" by Fortune 500 or larger groups...
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3rd FedEx Day: 7 Projects in 24 Hours
On April 28-29, 2011 Six Feet Up held its third FedEx Day, a quarterly internal event that fosters creativity, intrinsic motivation and team collaboration. This time 7 teams worked on a variety of outstanding projects...
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Virtualization: Why Business People Should Care
Last Friday, some of my colleagues went to a virtualization presentation that the organizers had cleverly combined with the opening of Green Lantern. Here's why business people should care...
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5 Ways to Improve Your Blogging Effectiveness
Most people who don't blog cite lack of time as a major excuse. But blogs have a big impact on traffic and online visibility. Understanding why is the first step in boosting your blogging impact...
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A Solution to Fixed-Bid vs. Hourly Contracts (Part 1)
If an auto-mechanic can’t accurately estimate a quick and simple car fix, what hope do software developers have when building something new and complex that’s never been exactly done before?...
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A Solution to Fixed-Bid vs. Hourly Contracts (Part 2)
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how hard it is to estimate creative projects including sophisticated software development like we work on here at Six Feet Up...
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A Solution to Fixed-Bid vs. Hourly Contracts (Part 3)
"Time and Materials" contracts ("T&M" in short) are the only sensible structure for sophisticated software development like we work on at Six Feet Up, but only in concert with a project management methodology that reduces risk for clients...
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The 5 Essential Enhancements in Plone 4.2. You Should Know About
One-click theming, faster searching, new collection UI, SEO-oriented HTML and cleaner code: all of it is in the Plone 4.2 release...
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The Five Values That Power Six Feet Up
Over the years, we have developed a distinctive culture based on a unique set of 5 essential values, some drawn from the book Drive by Daniel Pink...
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Where is Plone heading to? Reading thru the tea leaves
A good portion of the Sixie crew is now back from the superbly organized Plone Symposium Midwest (PSM). So, what do we take back from PSM this year? Where is Plone heading? What impact will Plone 5 have?
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