PBS: Earth: A New Wild

For the past four or five weeks or so on Wednesday evenings I’ve been watching an excellent series on humankind’s perilous relationship to this planet we are the default and de facto caretakers of.

A startling relaxation from tonights episode on Water…

….for millions of years the Colorado flowed out to the ocean dumping it waters into the Sea of Cortez yet since the 1990’s not a single drop of Colorado River water has reached the sea,

YouTube: The Art & Science of Gathering Requirements, Estimating Effort & Closing a Deal

Guest speaker Mark Richman, President of Skeleton Key, gives a presentation on The Art & Science of Gathering Requirements, Estimating Efforts & Closing a Deal.

Regardless of how you charge for your services, or whether you’re an in-house developer, sole proprietor or part of a larger team, at some point you need to:

Figure out what needs doing, and why.
Estimate what it will take to get it done, and by whom.
Negotiate with the buyer/decision-maker and come to an agreement.

Join us for an inside peek at how we do this at Skeleton Key, and an open discussion of what we think is working, how our process has evolved over time, and some of the wrong (and right) turns we’ve taken along the way.

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