On June 2, 2011 the US Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 1.8% (annual rate) increase in non-farm business sector labor during the first quarter of 2011. For the manufacturing sector there was a 4.2% growth in productivity for Q1 2011. Most businesses measure the productivity of their employees.  In Software Project Management we can measure the completion of development milestones, feature completion, bug close ratios, check-ins, and other aspects of developing software...

Today I'm Utrecht, not so far away south from Amsterdam, where Barnsten, who is representing Embarcadero in the Netherlands, organizes "Hands-On Delphi XE Developer Workshop". That's the second time this workshop is organized. Last year it went very good, and this year it looks like it is going to be fun again:-) All attendees - about 30 - brought their laptops with Delphi XE and InterBase XE already installed and it is going to be all about practical skills, doing things and live Delphi prog...