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]]>In response to my previous article How to Project Manage Part-time People, a commenter named Tristan Bailey asked me, “How do you break up the project or decide on milestones to keep everyone with a similar goal but small time?” That’s a great question and something that goes hand-in-hand with project managing a small part-time team. At Uncover, we’re five people, but only one out of the five of us is full-time, so picking good milestones and project managing is really important for us if we’re going to successfully push product updates.
One of the many hats I wear is the equivalent of Head of Product. That means different things to different companies, but generally it’s the job of the Head of Product to figure out what you need to build to be successful, while developing the roadmap and milestones. You make use of the feedback from your team and from your customers, together with your intuition, to determine what the best course of action is.
Communicating with customers, conducting usability tests, doing research, and so on are potentially a full-time job, but as this bundle of activities amounts to only one of my many roles, I need to prioritize what are must do’s ahead of everything else.
Determining a must do is actually a lot simpler than it sounds. Does your product absolutely positively need this feature, design, copy, etc., for you to not only ship it but for it to be successful? If it’s not going to add to the success of what you ship then it’s not a must do. When we’re talking about success, we’re generally talking about increasing our customer base and – more importantly – revenue.
Revenue is very important to us because, as a small company with few resources, the more money we make the more resources we can apply to grow our business. More resources generally means more hours and more hours means more money if we’re smart about how we put those hours to use. Nice to have’s don’t increase revenue and therefore should be tabled.
After I’ve gathered together the must do’s for the next update to Uncover, I get together with my team to discuss them. We don’t worry about the future beyond the next update, as we don’t have the time do so, so every question I ask them is simple: Is this something that we need to have or do to be successful in our next update? Everything that we agree on as a yes gets added to the project management spreadsheet and everything that gets a no is stored away in a Github Issue as tbd.
After we have our must do’s in our project management spreadsheet, our next milestone is set. Things will get added and removed during the production phase, but that’s unavoidable. Planning is now mostly complete, and then begins the development, design and project management phase. Proper planning and avoiding milestone bloat will really help you ship faster updates that have bigger impact.
The post How to Break Up a Project into Milestones appeared first on Treehouse Blog.
]]>Former UMBC Retriever basketball standout Ryan Cook has signed a professional contract with OKK Sloboda Tuzla in the Bosnian Liga I in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Cook finished the 2012-13 season with 478 points, the ninth-most in school history. He was selected to the America East Conference Second Team and to the 2013 America East All-Tournament team after averaging 22.0 points per game in two postseason contests.
Cook excelled at the June 2013 First Team All iBall Pro Combine, which was scouted by a group of former and current NBA and overseas players. He averaged 16.0 points per game during the combine, which ranked second amongst the 43 players that were invited.
OKK Sloboda Tuzla was the runner-up in both the regular season and the championships of Liga I in 2012-13.
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SOURCE: DB Networks
October 23, 2013 08:17 ET
IDS-6300 Leverages New Technology Approaches of Behavioral Analysis and Continuous Threat Monitoring to Identify Highly Obfuscated Attacks and Protect Organizations' Databases
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 23, 2013) - DB Networks, an innovator of behavioral analysis in database security, today introduced the IDS-6300 intelligent security appliance, the industry's first next-generation Core Intrusion Detection System (IDS). The IDS-6300 leverages patented behavioral analysis technology for comprehensive SQL injection intrusion detection and defense -- uniquely addressing SQL injection issues that have plagued the industry for more than 15 years. DB Networks' intelligent security appliance delivers advanced and Zero-Day SQL injection attack detection with the industry's first Core IDS that combines behavioral analysis and advanced continuous database monitoring, addressing specific compliance requirements within regulations such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GLBA, and NIST spec 800-53.
SQL injection attacks remain an unsolved threat to enterprise databases and their critical information stored at the core of the network. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) continues to rank SQL injection attacks at the top of its 10 most critical web application risks. Current techniques using signatures and black listing require time-consuming and error-prone manual updating, and are not effective against database hackers who obfuscate their SQL injection using Advanced Evasion Techniques (AET) to conceal their attacks. DB Networks is a pioneer in applying behavioral analysis to identify rogue SQL statements, and today's launch marks the industry's first IDS using behavioral analysis in the database tier.
"The way the DB Networks technology analyzes transactions is fundamentally different than a signature based technology so the capacity to identify an anomaly is significantly higher with greater accuracy against false positives," said David Monahan, Research Director of Security and Risk Management, Enterprise Management Associates, Inc.
In addition to delivering the industry's most accurate SQL injection attack detection, DB Networks' new Core IDS solution's continuous monitoring also adds the unique benefit of database discovery for organizations. Also, its ability to parse and analyze SQL statements offers organizations unique insight into the SQL statements being created by their applications. Coding issues are rapidly identified and traced to their source where they can be remediated.
The IDS-6300 works passively in the core of the IT infrastructure and is operationally transparent. It creates multiple unique models of how an application creates the SQL statements that it sends to the database. All SQL statements are evaluated against these models for proper behavior. Any SQL statement that deviates from these unique models causes the system to alarm in real-time. The behavioral learning and model creation is automated, making it much faster and more accurate than manually generated signatures or the tuning of signatures to suppress false alarms. The IDS-6300 typically takes a day or two to establish all learning and models, while other solutions can take a month or more.
"DB Networks has responded to customer demand to deliver the IDS-6300, building off our pioneering innovations around behavioral analysis at the database tier," said Brett Helm, CEO of DB Networks. "Today's launch addresses an unmet need in the industry to identify obfuscated weaponized SQL injection attacks, and is a requirement for organizations to have real-time evaluation of the situation."
The new solution is delivered in an easy-to-install intelligent security appliance, which is installed on the network connecting the application server to the database server. Typical set up takes less than an hour, and the solution works non-obtrusively off a network tap and doesn't interfere with existing security infrastructure.
Availability and Pricing
The DB Networks IDS-6300 intelligent security appliance
is available today from DB Networks and from authorized resellers. For
more information, see www.dbnetworks.com/products/IDS-6300.htm. Pricing starts at $25,000 and goes up depending on capacity needs, with volume discounts available.
About DB Networks
DB Networks is an innovating behavioral analysis
technology provider in the field of database security. Developed for
organizations that need to protect their data from advanced attacks,
including Zero-Day attacks, DB Networks offers effective countermeasures
against SQL injection and database Denial of Service attacks. Database
attacks happen rapidly -- in a matter of minutes -- and bypass
traditional perimeter security measures. DB Networks' unique approach
uses behavioral analysis technology to automatically learn each
application's proper SQL statement behavior. Any SQL statement
dispatched from the application that deviates from the established
behavioral model immediately raises an alarm as a possible attack. DB
Networks is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego,
Calif. For more information, see http://www.dbnetworks.com, or call (800) 598-0450.
DB Networks is a registered trademark of DB Networks in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names are either trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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