It is Friday 5pm somewhere.....time to log off and enjoy the weekend. In the meantime, enjoy a short but beautifully curated selection of randomness from around the web.





​This week

1. Four ways to grow your start up. A great article that I read this week in the Australian Financial Review.
2. Some great reading for the weekend on learning from legends like Moragn Freeman, Bill Maher, Debbie harry and many many more. Inspiring stuff and it is totally free.
3. Revolights Eclipse: Connected Bike Lighting System is another crowd funding initiative that I am supporting.
4. If you are into knives you may want to check out these beauties which include knives made from space rocks....yes really.
5. And because it is Friday and I love a good illusion check out this cool wine rack. Even better after a few glasses.

 This blog post is focused on how to plan and scope out a disaster recovery plan. It looks at the objectives, work packages or deliverables and the acceptance criteria. It is more focused on how a client might engage a vendor to conduct a disaster recovery plan. The structure outlined could be used for inclusion in a statement of work. This is a business focused post and not technical.
 

​A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a documented process or set of procedures to recover and protect a business IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.
 
Planning and testing a disaster recovery plan is a prudent part of business continuity planning.

This post explores the structure of a good template for a business functional specification or template for a detailed functional specification. It looks at the contents and template of a good functional specification, how to work with users and the process of creation of a good functional specification.
 
I have provided a template of a business functional specification in a simple to follow 10-step way that can be used by a business analyst to walk through with users and collect the business functional specifications for the development of a new or modified application.
 
In addition there are helpful hints and tips on developing the business functional specification that you can use as you develop the document.
 
This was a specific request via feedback from one of my blog followers. A big thank you to Heather in Colorado, USA, really appreciate the feedback and I hope that you find this useful.
 
This post is part of a number of articles on projects, you can read more here.

• Video: How to price your project
• Project delivery checklist
• PMO Project checklist​
• Starting up a project a checklist of 101 things to think about

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This week

1. Not sure that zero work hours is possible but this is great click bait from the SMH. It does have some good points to make in relation to personal productivity including making sure you delegate when required and you focus on what is core. The article recommends reading books like "The One Thing" by Gary Keller and "The 4 hour work week" by Tim Ferriss, which I have read and is awesome.
2. I started my professional career with Australian Telco Optus and it is interesting to see where they are now and the journey they are going through as they respond to the rise of "big ants" like TPG and iiNet. Allen Lew has his work cut out for him as he develops a new Optus Vision.
3. At the end of the movie "The Big Short" there was a note that the key player only invests now in water companies. This is getting some more "airplay" now on the internet and there is an interesting post here on virtual water.
4. I was at a China Export Trade breakfast this week. It was hosted by the NSW Chamber of Commerce and NAB. Several of the businesses highlighted as doing great things in China through agri business innovation include. Brookfarm andHarvestbox.
5. And finally just because it is Friday night and the start of the NRL season and the opening game between Manly and The Bulldogs is on tonight. Enjoy !

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How Much Money is enough A conversation with Gretchchen Rubin.
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