Thursday, September 30, 2004

Reading the Jan Bosch book

"The artifacts are divided in two main catergories, i.e. requirements specification and software architecture. Requirements specification is divided in two functional and quality requirements.
Software architecture consists in four artifacts: systems context, the archectypes, the architectural structure and the design decisions." Design and use of software architectures, p.25.
I have read today until chapter 3, tomorrow I´ll continue with the following chapters.

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

General issues

Today I went to the gym, I felt good going to the gym.

Improving the third and fourth assignments of Decision Making I

Today I was improving the assignments of Decision Making I.

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Working on the fourth assignment of Decision Making I

Today I'm working in gathering the information for the fourth assignment of Decision Making I.

Working in the third Decision Making assignment

Today I'll finish the third assignment of Decision Making I.

Monday, September 27, 2004

Reading the multicultural book of Masha

Today I'll read some chapters of the multicultural book that Masha borrowed to me yesterday.

General Issues

Today I went to the gym. I like my time at the gym.

Working on my third assignment on Decision Making I

Today I'm working on my third assignment on Decision Making I, about Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes connected with the expected utility theory. I'll try to finish it tomorrow morning.

woking on my agile project

Today I'm working in my agile project, I hope this can be done. Also I'll have a meeting with Kari today about the same issue. It was a long meeting where we discussed what should we do about the project, first step find a supervisor.

Sunday, September 26, 2004

starting the third assignment of Decision Making I

Today I started to gathering the necessary information to develop my third report in Decision Making I. I think I do not need more information that the one that I have already gathered.

I'll make the references today, maybe I'll start with the Introduction also.

Finishing the second assignment of decision making I

Today I finished the second assignment of decision making I.

Saturday, September 25, 2004

working on the second assignment of Decision Making I

I hope I'll manage to finish it tomorrow and start the third one.

Friday, September 24, 2004

Working in the second assignment of Decision Making I

Today I´m working in gathering the information in order to develop the assignment 2 of Decision Making I.

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Working in the assignment 2.4

Today I have been working in the assignment 2.4 of Research Methodology about simulation.

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

General Issues

Today I went to the lecture of Research Methodology that summarize all the different techniques on it.

Finishing the assignment 2.3 of Research Methodology

Today we finished the assignment 2.3 of Research Methodology.

Monday, September 20, 2004

working on the 2.3 assignment of Research Methodology

Today I'm working in searching information for my 2.3 assignment of research methodology. I'll also have a meeting at 19:30 with Derek about this issue. We have already written a page, it is still one page for each other to write. I hope we will manage to finish it tomorrow.

General Issues

Today I'll go to the gym, and I'll buy some food that I need. Going to the gym it was really good to me, I like it.

Finishing my first assignment of Decision Making

Today I finished my first assignment of Decision Making I. The only thing is that I don't know if I should deliver the assignment using pdf or doc format. I'm waiting for what Anders says about.

Sunday, September 19, 2004

Working on my Decision Making I assignment 1

Today I started to work in the first assignment of Decision Making I. I hope I'll finished today, if not tomorrow morning.

General issues

Today I went to the laundry to wash and dry my clothes.

Mixing the assignment of research methodology

Today I'll mix the assignment of research methodology with the part that Derek will send it to me.

Saturday, September 18, 2004

General Issues

Today I found in ebooks a book that I wanted to read at BTH library. The book is called "Agile Project Management: How to Succeed in the Face of Changing Project Requirements".

Working on my assignment of research methodology (2.1)

Today I'm working with Derek to finish today this assignment. If not I'll finish it tomorrow, but I can give it so much time to it.

Friday, September 17, 2004

Working on research methodology assignment (2.1)

Today I'm working on my research methodology assignment 2.1 about mathematical modelling.
Chapter 9 of Creswell's book is not useful, it talks about quantitative surveys, and experiments.

Thursday, September 16, 2004

General Issues

I have a lecture today about simulation in Research Methodology, for the next assignments.

Decision Making I

I´m reading again the paper for Decision Making I. It is quite confuse to me this binary lottery theme.

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

First assignment of Investments in the IT industry

Today I´ll read the book about valutation for the first assignment of the course.

General issues

Today I have been working to deliver my old apartment to RonnebyHus in good conditions.

Decision Making - assignment 1

Today I started reading about the first assignment of Decision Making I.

Assignment 2.1 - Research methodology finished

Today I finished the assignment of research methodology about qualitative research methodology (Case Study). I have done it about test driven development.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

General issues

Today I went to the dentist to fix one of my teeth, also I went to RonnebyHus in order to complain about the new bathroom, after that I went to the doctor to see my sleeping problem.

Working in the qualitative research report

Today I'm working on the qualitative research report for the assignment 2.1 in research methodology. In this case I'm working on test-driven development, to see if it is suitable for web development environments.

Monday, September 13, 2004

Working on improving my proposal

I'm improving my proposal today to send it to the responsible for the assignment 1.1 of Research Methodology.

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Working on the proposal

I'll start working on improving my Msc. thesis proposal for Research Methodology.

General Issues

I'm still chaging apartment. It is hard to do it, there are a lot of things that I should carry on.

Working on the assignment 1.2 of research methodology

Today I have been working in reviewing the second proposal for the assignment 1.2 of research methodology. I finished it and I have already sent it to the teacher and the authors.

Working on the assignment 1.2 of research methodology

Today I have been working in reviewing the second proposal for the assignment 1.2 of research methodology. I finished it and I have already sent it to the teacher and the authors.

Saturday, September 11, 2004

General Issues

Today I helped Derek in his assignment on Project Management, and I changed some clothes from my old apartment to the new one.

Working on the reviewing assignment

Today I have been working in reviewing the proposal for the 1.2 assignment in research methodology. I have to review two proposal, tomorrow I'll finished with the other proposal. Moreover, I'll start my proposal.

Friday, September 10, 2004

Managing the software process

This week I have been reading this book of Watt Humphrey. But since tomorrow I should start thinking about the proposal an the two reviews that I should develop for Monday morning.

General Issues

I'm changing my apartment today. I hope I will complete this change tomorrow.

Quotes from Craig Larman's book

"Process is only a second-order effect. The unique people, their feelings and qualities, are more influential.
Some problems are just hard, some people are just difficult. These methods are not salvation". pag.2. Quotes from Alistair Cockburn.

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Some general issues

I´m thinking to buy a dog or go to Aikido or doing both things.

Craig Larman´s book

Yesterday I finished to read Craig Larman´s book. There are two questions that he add to the Scrum methodology page. 121.

4. "Any tasks to add to the Sprint Backlog?"
5. "Have you learned or decided anything new, or relevance to some of the team members?"

Refactoring book

This week I finished to read the Refactoring book. A really good one.