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Getting Real on Ciklum PM Camp

 I had very nice few days in Ciklum PM gathering, a lot of useful workshops and discussions. One of the event was Speakers Corner, idea borrowed from UK, but in this case it was more about free talk of PMs with clients. There was some people from Holand and Denmark that took initiative and presented their own  vision about how outsourcing should work, how to grow trust and keep communication on the high level. Very useful experience when you see how it feels from other side of outsourcing. Also I wanted to say that we with Yuri Tukhnin presented "Getting Real" methodology of crafting the project. I'm in love with "Getting Real" it keep you tuff and realistic. We didn't managed to finish all slides by 30min, so we was about more than "real" :) at least we managed to tell about main stuff like code less and cut the features. I hope this seed will grow with in the company, at least I see that company decided to move in agile development way.  Today,

Startups magnet

   Strange thing, universe is build very interesting, when you try dig on something everything around it starts stick with you, new connection, new info is coming from everywhere. Like more then year ago I started working with my own startup and from that moment all everybody around me stated talking about startups, then some of people invites me to join their projects, some are just philosophizing. But the main point that when you are starting doing something, it's like travel to the parallel universe where all things are the same.    Second thought I've got that everything what you discover, every "new idea" was already made by someone, so you think "what the point to make same?". When youtube came on the market there was tons of video sharing websites, but almost all was expensive(storage was expensive at that time), so what they guys did, they put a lot of afford to make service free and fast, nobody else could fight for that, so youtube win. If you thi

People are interesting

...and people are interested. I like talking with people, when you first describe them an idea, you say: - Hm, it should be some sort of white-board.... They feel very suspicious , some heard about white-boards, some didn't but always they are trying to imagine this in their head, then you give them link to check. In few days, when you meet again during the coffee break, usually they start talking about the project: - It's very cool, but I've noticed that it would be cool to have .... So from that point you feel that not only you are involved in developing start-up, it become some sort of public and now your colleagues and other people that you met online are part of it, they own your product. This is one of exciting moments that help you continue development, so you know that you are on good track. Few weeks ago I've had feedback from one guy from the Mexico, he was reporting some hibernate issues upon Owely, some of them we fixed in next release, but it's no