Category Archives: q4

Weathering the storm

By jonezy | Published: August 11, 2008
One of the common tasks when working in an agile environment is pointing stories, its essential that the team and the product owner get together and decide on how much effort something is going to take. We had a meeting scheduled today at work to do just this, 4 stories that needed pointing so they [...]
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Cross Post: Rockefeller Habits meet SCRUM

By jonezy | Published: July 16, 2008
Thought I would repost something I wrote for my companies blog here, it’s exciting news and I thought it would be appropriate to share! Rockefeller Habits meet SCRUM
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Rocks and Rewards!

By jonezy | Published: June 2, 2008
So as part of our company alignment and implementing the Rockefeller Habits at Q4 our quarterly theme was moving rocks together. We set aside a room with a video camera and plates with peoples names on them, if you felt the urge to recognize someone you could go into the room and record a short [...]
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What do you do when the shit hits the fan?

By jonezy | Published: May 13, 2008
To cut to the point, I was promoting some changes for a client last night. It was an update to part of our product that allows our customers to send automated and one off emails to lists of subscribers. I had done promotions similar to this in the past (in fact i’ve probably done the [...]
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Wanted: Senior .NET Developer

By jonezy | Published: March 25, 2008
The company I work for is looking for a Senior .NET developer!  Check below for the details: Q4 Web Systems is looking for a kick-ass senior .NET developer.  If you are a technology junkie and your idea of fun is spending a Saturday night reading about Team Foundation Server 2008 or playing with Silverlight 2.0 just [...]
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Q4; One of Canada’s Top 25 Up and Coming Companies

By jonezy | Published: March 19, 2008
Just like the title says, the company I work for is getting some recognition and validation of our efforts from the industry, it sure does feel good!
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Q4Press.com

By jonezy | Published: March 18, 2008
At work we decided that we needed to put together a marketing site for our just released product Q4 Press. What followed was literally a couple of hours of back and forth with the CEO of the company and we had the site done and ready to go. For such a quick turnaround I’m really happy with [...]
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releasing products, meeting and being a shareholder

By jonezy | Published: June 13, 2006
so at the day job (www.q4websystems.com) we are getting ready to releaseversion 3 of our product. This is the first time we have actually say down and defined a date and a set of features that would be part of a release. In the past we would build features, release them and then [...]
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