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What is an item-based search service?

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Xyggy item based search snapshot

Xyggy item based search snapshot

Received this intriguing note from Dinesh Vadhia recently on a new item-based search service, Xyggy:

Hi! A short note about our new startup, Xyggy. We are building-out an item-based search service and platform. What is an item-based search service? Go to the Xyggy site at www.xyggy.com and have a play with the five demos which have been made public. If you like what you see then feel free to tell others.

Using dependencies in agile project style management

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It occurred to me that a basic effor/time saving principle of agile project management is that you don’t try to plan everything up front, because you don’t need to!

The fact that for example getting a site live ready by a certain date requires a change to the URL pointing means you only need to worry about it when you get close to the event, as each event is connected in reality to another (‘one thing leads to another’ to slice the folk wisdom). Call it ‘managing complexity’ if you like.