Last December, my coworker Zach Chandler wrote a great blog post on the core principles of Agile Project Management and how to think about them in relation to web development at Stanford. In Zach's "Be Careful What You Ask For" section he briefly outlines the challenges for the Product Owner (primary decision maker) in Agile projects: balancing the power to change project direction with budget and time constraints. In this post, I'd like to go into the role of the Product Owner in a bit more depth.
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Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 2:50pm Social media could be said to be the new "press release," a concise way to get your latest updates out to an interested audience. If you're using Twitter or Facebook, here are a couple of quick and easy ways to integrate your social media content into your website.
Posted by Megan Erin Miller on Monday, June 3, 2013 - 9:00am This is the fourth post in my series, Styling on Sites. In my last post we looked at the new responsive theme Open Framework, and how we can use Bootswatch subthemes to quickly style our Sites site. Today, I'm going to share something awesome. Font Awesome.
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Friday, May 31, 2013 - 9:00am "Spam spam spam spam, spam spam spam spam, lovely spam, wonderful spam". ~ Monty Python
Named after a lunch meat made of spiced ham, "spam" is used to describe unsolicited and unwanted bulk messages which are usually some sort of advertising. Sure you might be able to find a great deal on sneakers, but left unchecked, these messages clog up our email and fill up the comment sections on websites.
We use spam filters to eliminate these messages from our email, but what do we do about our websites?
Posted by John Bickar on Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 9:29am On Tuesday, May 28th, and Thursday, May 30th, 2013, IT Services will perform quarterly software updates on Stanford Sites.
Schedule
Tuesday, May 28th, 5-8PM: updates performed on personal websites hosted on people.stanford.edu.
Thursday, May 30th, 4-6AM: updates performed on group and department websites hosted on sites.stanford.edu.
Updates will include:
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