<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Wade,<div><br></div><div>I was unable to view the meeting last night, is there a video somewhere I can watch?</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 9, 2015, at 9:04 AM, Fraser Baker via Houston <<a href="mailto:houston@pm.org">houston@pm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi Wade:<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I greatly appreciated your talk on “Best Practices Gone Bad”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The insight you gave into how large, (larger than one) organizations approach software development was a eye opener for me. As the sole proprietor of an ambitious project, I was pleased to learn that intuitively I do follow some of the Best Practices you described, but perhaps am guilty of some that have gone “BAD”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Anyway, thanks again for managing the Houston.pm group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Fraser Baker<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Houston mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Houston@pm.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Houston@pm.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston</a><br>Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://houston.pm.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://houston.pm.org/</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>