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Open project management methodology ?

Being in the IT business for quite a while, I’ve came across quite a few project management methodologies, of which I found (IBM) Rational Unified Process (RUP) the most flexible and really universally useful. I’ve just recently (about fifteen minutes ago) found an upcoming rival to this methodology and that’s coming from the open source community it’s the OpenUP.
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The Parable of the Object Oriented Programmer and Breakfast

This is the English version of a tale I’ve recently found in my archive mailbox from 2001. Looking at ongoing projects, I think it still has a point.

Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. “What do you think this is?”
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Developing J2ME application on Linux

We are starting up prototyping on a new project I’ve mentioned in this article. Our aim is to provide a proof-of-concept implementation of a simple off-line application running on the PDA’s we have.
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