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Facebook Connect for Comments

August 5th, 2009

Although I’m not completely sold on the usefulness of Facebook Connect, it seems I can’t go a day without somebody asking me about it. Hence, as a little experiment, I’ve implemented the API here to allow you to make comments on this site with your Facebook account. What can I say, I can’t help myself.

Let me know what you think about Facebook Connect, and its many appications.

Better Estimates: Leveraging Past Performance

July 1st, 2009

Everything we do, day in and day out, can generate data, which can be leveraged to create better estimates. In fact, the more “stuff” we do, the more data we generate and the more useful it becomes.

Each and every one of us estimates poorly in our own unique way. Some of us over-estimate, some of us under-estimate, and some of us couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. However, we usually follow a pattern of some kind. The degree to which our estimates are off generally conforms to roughly the same proportions. If we were to examine a particular worker’s estimated task completion time to the actual completion time over the course of many tasks, we can determine the approximate factor to apply to his estimates to find the actual completion time. Continue Reading