The Drunkard’s Walk, How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Dear Fissure Friends, I recently read the book “The Drunkard’s Walk, How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, By Leonard Mlodinow. In the book, Mlodinow introduces many real-life situations and then talks about the odds or probability of the potential results. He actually gives a great history of the development of mathematics and how much of it
Read MoreA Few Words From Jesse
Many years ago I was working with Michael Krzmarcik and Best Buy to provide project management training. Mike was responsible for IT training and I’ll never forget the sign that Mike had hanging in his office. It said: “Train them and they may leave, or don’t train them and they’ll stay.” I really like the
Read MoreA Few Words From Jesse
In our last newsletter I told you about the release of our new online simulation technology. In the last 4 months of 2011 we had over 200 students run up to three executions of our University/College market product, SimProject®. The feedback was extremely positive and we have been very busy working with instructors and students
Read MoreWhy Develop A Web Based Simulation – Meet Buki
Ten years is not a very long time in the life-cycle of asoftware product. Many companies are running and enhancing programs originally developed decades ago. Ten years ago Fissure released a computer based simulation technology that resides on the computer. Over the last ten years we have enhanced the software and added about ten
Read MoreA Few Words From Jesse – Our Web Based Simulation Technology
It was a big day for Fissure as it was our first trade show after the release of our brand new web-based simulation technology and supporting website: www.simulationpoweredlearning.com. Check it out and let me know what you think. Yes, now you will be able to run one of our many learning simulations as an individual
Read MoreStakeholders and the Triple Constraint Trade-off Matrix
I have often talked about the triple constraints (scope, cost, and schedule) and the Fissure Quintuple constraints (adding quality and team productivity as equally important constraints or variables). Most of you are very familiar with the triple/quintuple constraint relationship and the fact that you can’t change one without impacting the others. Considering just the triple
Read MoreA Few Words From Jesse – New Years Resolutions
First I have to apologize to Brett Favre and everyone else for misspelling his name in the last newsletter. No excuses, just poor spelling and poor quality review. It’s easy to get caught up in the “new year” this year. We have the normal beginning of a new year with the usual resolutions – did
Read MoreFissure Workshop On The World Wide Web
You may already be aware that Fissure has been working on an online delivery version of our highly effective on-site simulation powered learning (SPL) workshops. We are now looking for a few good students to participate (at no cost) and provide feedback on this project to turn boring on-line training into engaging on-line learning. We
Read MoreA Few Words From Jesse – Project Management Simulation
First an announcement! We have been working hard for the last 9 months on an online version of our Project Management Simulation workshop. Now we need test students. Check out the article in this newsletter regarding this free opportunity. Like some of you, I have watched over the last few years as my total cholesterol
Read MoreA Few Words From Jesse
We recently received a request from our local PMI Chapter for any articles on Stakeholders. In looking back we had never written an article specific to stakeholders, so we were unable to help them. I did, however put the thought of writing an article on stakeholders in the back of my mind. Then a few
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