Wednesday, May 27, 2009

What the remainder of 2009 will bring for Boundless Flight, Inc.

A well-known local executive related the following to me last week as we were talking about an upcoming engagement opportunity: "... please don't bring in a bunch of PMP's and expect that to be a magic bullet. I gave up on that a long time ago."

Boundless Flight, Inc. has been focused on developing a uniquely qualified team to provide the best project management support services centered around MS Project Server 2007 and MS Project Portfolio Server 2007. We have dedicated ourselves to these tools largely because we KNOW them well and they are available in a highly cost-effective SaaS model. Our sales in this area have been steadily growing for two years.

At the same time we dedicated ourselves to the Microsoft tools, we also dedicated ourselves to the Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute. We believe it can truly provide a measureable differentiator in the project management profession. But the executive's statement above is correct; a project manager's PMP does not guarantee excellent management skills.

That is why we have added a third leg to our PMO Support Services stool - PRADCO. PRADCO, located right here in Chagrin Falls, OH, provides a mature set of managerial behavior profiling tools and a team dedicated to the project management profession. The ability to profile behavior tendencies takes much of the guesswork out of the hiring, reduction, and restructuring processess so many corporations are finding themselves in these days. It is so much easier to, for example, move Stan onto the already-behind CRM software implementation team KNOWING he handles pressure well rather than relying on someone's sense or intuition regarding Stan's abilities.

Boundless Flight, Inc. now offers

  • A complete suite of project management TOOLS centralized around Microsoft's core

  • The ability to design, develop, train, and implement project management PROCESSES, guides, tools, KPI's, information distribution flows

  • The ability to objectively assess the expected BEHAVIORS of project managers and coach them into increased project quality due to their improved management skills.

Stay tuned - we have the solution for our executive friend.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Cleveland TECHnic Summer Picnic - June 20, 2009

Boundless Flight, Inc.

and our friends at
BlueBridge Networks

Best Technology Strategy

e-Ventus

Technical Search Consultants

the Great Lakes Geek

PRADCO

Cleveland Java Users Group


Bring you TECHnic!

Your family, friends, fellow workers AND YOU are invited to join us in beautiful Parma, Ohio for TECHnic! The best chance in Cleveland to enjoy summer fun with the many technicians, developers, and other IT firms in Northeast Ohio.

Saturday, June 20, from 10am and into the evening!

Food and Beverage
Music and Merry
Fun and Frolic

Cowboy George, the Director of Deliciousness (DoD) will provide delectible sauces to enjoy with our picnic delights!

CowboyGeorge's
BlazeGourmet
Sauces&Rubs

We will be there rain or shine, plenty of room for everyone under the HUGE pavilion.

Musical entertainment includes (but is not limited to) the famed Dan Shaw Trio playing the best jazz this side of Lake Erie AND Ted Wallingford, guitarist extraordinaire!

Modern facilities include full kitchen and bathrooms.

The picnic grounds have a sand volleyball court and a playground.


Companies and organizations: Would you like to participate? Give us a call and we'll talk about ways to get you visibility!

Register at
www.BoundlessFlight.com
Click on the 'Sign Up' button


St. Sava's Picnic Grove
2300 W Ridgewood Dr
Parma, OH 44129

Monday, April 6, 2009

April Java Users Group Meeting 4/8/09


Sun Microsystems and Boundless Flight, Inc.
proudly sponsor the
Cleveland Java Users Group Meeting

Next Meeting:
April 8, 2009

Check
www.meetup.com/cleveland-java/ to RSVP!

Please note special location:
LeanDog Software
1151 N Marginal Rd
Cleveland, OH 44114



Agenda:


5:30pm – 6:00pm ~> Eat, Drink & Network


6:00pm – 6:15pm ~> Recap Previous Meeting & New Business


6:15pm - 8:00pm ~> Presentation on Test Driven Development & Refactoring

From Wikipedia: Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development technique that uses short development iterations based on pre-written test cases that define desired improvements or new functions. Each iteration produces code necessary to pass that iteration's tests. Finally, the programmer or team refactors the code to accommodate changes. A key TDD concept is that preparing tests before coding facilitates rapid feedback changes. Note that test-driven development is a software design method, not merely a method of testing.




The staff at LeanDog have several years of experience assisting Java development teams adopt agile practices, including TDD. In addition, LeanDog has taught TDD concepts and practices for the past five years for both Java and C++. This presentation will review some of the key concepts from their course and end with observations and experiences from coaching engagements.

Our Speaker, Jeff 'Cheezy' Morgan, says:
"For the past five years I have taught a 3 day TDD course for both Java and C++. I have recently worked with a local developer to create a C# version of this course as well. I also have years of experience helping Java development teams adopt agile practices including TDD. The presentation could take some of the key concepts from my course and then end with some of my observations from my coaching engagements."



Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Prepare for Easter Dinner with a Wine Tasting on 4/2

Easter Dinner
Wine Pairing


April 2, 6 - 9pm

$15 per person
$25 per couple

Martin's Deli
20505 Detroit Rd.
Rocky River


Sample wines which are an excellent compliment to your April Holiday celebrations. We will be tasting the following wines along with hors d'oeuvres created from favorite Easter dinner selections.

Franciscan Chardonnay, Napa
Estancia Chardonnay, Monterey
Kenwood Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley
Estancia Pinot Noir, Monterey
Bogle Riesling, California
ArsVitis Riesling, Germany

For wine tasting information email
martinsdeli@gmail.com
or call the Rocky River store at 440-331-4410


www.Twitter.com/MartinsDeli

Martin's Deli thanks Boundless Flight for their generous support.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Congratulations go out to Roxy Giusca, GIS Principal, Boundless Flight

Boundless Flight is proud of our own Roxana Giusca, PhD, Geographical Information Systems (GIS). She is currently deployed to Pioneer Electric Cooperative in southwest Ohio.

In the February edition of the Pioneer EC Update Roxy was congratulated along with the rest of her team for the successful installation of the new tool.

Roxy developed this application from an idea provided by Tom Musick, Dir. of Operations at Pioneer.

This brief article was taken from Pioneer's internal newsletter:

Pioneer Electric Cooperative Update

Outage & Blinking Lights Tool

Tom Musick, Director of Operations, provided a demonstration of an exciting new tool that will enable Pioneer to pinpoint problem outage or blink areas before members (customers) call in. This, in combination with their Member Interactive Voice Response (IVR) automated calling unit, will give them the set of tools they can use to proactively communicate to members concerning their service issues. Member surveys say reliable electricity services are their number one priority. The better Pioneer communicates in this area the more satisfied the members will be.

Thanks to Roxy Giusca, Kris Johnson and Lynn Maniaci for their work with Tom Musick to make the new tool a working reality - great job!

Monday, March 9, 2009

March Meeting announcement for CJUG



Sun Microsystems and Boundless Flight, Inc.
proudly sponsor the

Cleveland Java Users Group

Next Meeting:March 11, 2009

3 Summit Park DriveLower Level Auditorium
Independence, OH 44131

Agenda

5:30pm – 6:00pm ~> Eat, Drink & Network

6:00pm – 6:15pm ~> Recap Previous Meeting & New Business

6:15pm - 8:00pm ~> Presentation on Groovy and Grails by Christopher Judd and Jim Shingler

Overview of Groovy and Grails
Java has become the dominate software development platform today. But unfortunately being over a decade old, the Java language and many of the associated web frameworks are starting to show their age. Organizations are finding it difficult to be agile and productive with these technologies. However with large infrastructure, process and training investments in the Java platform, organizations can’t justify start over from scratch with a new platform.

Enter Groovy and Grails. Groovy is a dynamic language built on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with copy and paste compatibility with the Java language but also contains modern day language features like closures and properties. Grails is a web framework and development platform built on top of standard Java frameworks like Spring and Hibernate but simplifies them by using convention over configuration. This combination makes web development on the Java Platform extremely agile while leveraging current investments and the large Java ecosystem.




Christopher M. Judd

Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for
Judd Solutions, LLC, an international speaker, an open source evangelist, the Central Ohio Java Users Group leader, and the coauthor of Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003). He has spent 12 years architecting and developing software for Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, and transportation. His current focus is consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, Java EE, Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME), mobile technologies, and related technologies.

Jim Shingler

Jim Shingler is Lead Technical Architect for Big Lots, co-founder of open source project FallME, and co-author of "
Beginning Groovy and Grails". The focus of his career has been using leading-edge technology to develop IT solutions for the insurance, financial services, and manufacturing industries. He has 11 years of large-scale Java experience and significant experience in distributed and relational technologies.


Friday, February 13, 2009

Boundless Flight at Martin's Deli Wine Tasting : 2/12/09
























Wine Tasting at Martin's Deli in
Rocky River, by the
Boundless Flight HQ











































Martin's Deli - White Wine Tasting
February 12, 2009




















E.J. - third generation
Martin's Deli chef/ operator