Author: Ray Keefe

  • Australian Manufacturing Growth Continues

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    Australian Manufacturing PMI   Unlike what you are probably hearing from politicians, Australian Manufacturing is one of the current success stories of the Australian economy. Currently the second highest growth sector in Australia, Australian Manufacturing has been in growth every month bar one since mid 2015. Check out the chart below from Trading Economics Australian…

  • Samantha Gash

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    Samantha Gash At the most recent Casey Cardinia Business Breakfast I had the opportunity to hear Samantha Gash speak about her life and discovery of running.   Life beyond the comfort zone From a high school student who was always the last one picked for a sports team, she was not renowned for her physical…

  • Good Documentation

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    Good Documentation Good Documentation makes it possible for other people to leverage work already done. It can be the difference between something being usable and it being scrapped or ignored. We have already looked at some aspects of how Software Documentation can be created. An example being shown below.   This is only one form…

  • Software Development Metrics

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    Software Development Estimation in Software Costing we looked at some typical ways of determining the likely cost of a Software Development project. One way was to look at how much typing was involved. This is not considered the best approach as the cartoon below demonstrated.   I prefer to spend more time thinking about the…

  • Big Data Challenges

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    Big Data Big Data has been touted as the answer to many problems. Currently many organisations are collecting everything they can get their hands on in order to try and make sense of it, either now, or eventually. And then of course to leverage that for profit, advantage, protection, whatever…   But there is a…