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[david bovill]

In brief - as deadlines today:

Scrum / Product / Sprint catalogs all come from the synthesis of 
software project management methodology known as Agile Development - 
heavily influenced by the better known extreme programming  ideas. Good 
starting point as ever is Wikipedia - I'll put up some links and PDFs 
on the weekend.

Shards is a particular contract / digital currency that is based on the 
theory and software implementation of Ricardian Contracts - which is 
the work of a friend of mine Ian Grigg from Systemics Inc going back to 
the days of David Chaum / DigiCash. There is plenty of badly presented 
text on the web about this which I'm currently working on to gather the 
bits into one place.

On 22 Jul 2005, at 03:09, SimPLsol at aol.com wrote:

> David,
>       It has been a full day, sorry it has taken so long to reply.
>       You used some terms with which I am not familiar: Ricardian 
> contract, shards, Scum / Agile Development, Product Backcatalog, and 
> Sprint Backlog. Enlightenment is appreciated.
>       Why would one want to split the revenue instead of the profit?

It is an interesting option, which avoids a kind of "man in the middle 
attack" - that is what is to stop the management from taking the 
revenues and paying themselves unjustified fees? Revenue share is more 
transparent, and has been used relatively recently by large financial 
institutions (Hilton Group / Pension Funds) to raise finance in a way 
which binds all parties together in a common purpose (finance and 
project) - decreasing certain risks which arise from conflicts of 
interest with the more usual profit / finance models. Probably not too 
clear but best I can do in 10 minutes :)

>       With your pledge and mine, the three day total is $300. At this 
> rate, if it takes us a year to get all the details worked out, there 
> might be $36,500 to program it ;-)
>  Paul Looney