Deliverables and Job offer!!!

Hello people!!!

Today we have delivered the STD (that now that I think about it, it's not a good acronym because it has another and more famous meaning), and the fourth BPR without any problems.
The second draft of the SVVP is also going to be delivered tonight, but we are checking that the format of all the tables are consistent between each other. But hopefully, we won't have any problems with it.

Another topic, today while I was reading the newspaper (the digital one), I found a interesting new (click here): the president of google spain and portugal has left her job (it doesn't specify the reason). I find it quite shocking because of 2 things:

• First, the president was a spanish woman (yay!! for us)
• Second, she was or is one of the most powerfull business woman nowadays.

So if you are looking for a job, you can apply for it, you never know what could happen.

And finally, these last weeks we, my classmates and me, have been doing a survey to choose the lecturers that have made a deep impression in our college time.
There have been 2 surveys: one for the general degree (spanish and english) and another one only for the bilingual group (us). In the general one there have been lots of problems and these last days a huge discussion about the vote system arose.
Anyway, what I tried to say it's that in the bilingual group we haven't had that problem because we have kept the developed system that we follow in the SE3 course: each one votes what he/she thinks in a hierarchical way. Also if someone had some problems it was explained and then a decision was taken.

So, please if something like this happens again, follow our system, it's better and less painful for everyone :-D

Thanks to everyone

Nieves

Disastrous SVVP Review!!!

This evening (well, yesterday evening, at this time) we had the review of the SVVP or the document where the tests procedures are explained.
If you remember (if not, then go back to the week before christmas), the week where we had to deliver the SVVP was really stressfull, because we had the huge review of the DDD, the selling, the audit and the SVVP.
Finally we passed all but the SVVP, we have to make changes in a 20% of the document, mostly changes regarding the naming convention of the elements in the data model. We have to deliver the reviewed version this saturday, and also on saturday we have to deliver the STD and the BPR, but as those two are finished since a week ago, I think we are going to do a good job this time.

So, we have reached a conclussion, that although with this project now we are not going to have to face again, it's a good one that probably will be with us for the rest of our career: in stress time, take it easy and solve the arguments before they reach the conflict stage, 'cos a project is not worth it.

Take care and keep in touch, probably on saturday a entry will be posted.

Nieves

We have passed: Congratulate us!!!

According to our secret source (the X man of X' files), this blog has passed to the final phase of the blog competition!
So we thank everyone who thinks that we are good enough to pass, and for those who doesn't, then we will try harder in this new stage.

We also want to say that we are sorry for those groups that have not passed: guys you are great, don't worry you are in our minds!!! this is our farewell to all of you


Keep working hard, and as Henry Ford said:

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Thanks to everyone

Blue Team

Has Google met a possible opponent?

Yesterday, I was reading the newspaper waiting for the typical familiar lunch of the 6th ohf January (here in spain, it's holidays), and I read that Wikipedia has developped a new internet search engine, and also in the title Google was beginning to be cited, so I though what's this about??

I kept on reading and I discovered that Wikipedia has though expanding it's concept about users doing the work by small amounts of contribution, to a search engine. So they don't have to recreate a program with intelligence like google, but it is going to use the intelligence of the real people. At first you think it's not serious, but after the success they had with Wikipedia and how it changed the concept of the encyclopedia, you can just laught it off.

Also it is said that Google is shaking because the amount of users that wikipedia has, could change their searches to Wikia (name of the search engine of Wikipedia).

If you want to know more about Wikia, you can click here

That's all we will have to see who is the winner between google or wikia.

Bye

Nieves