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MIT System Design and Management – Design Challenge #1

Posted on May 21, 2017May 21, 2017 by davidelasi

One years is passed since I started my master degree in System Design and Management at MIT. Back in August 2016, I attended the program bootcamp: an intense two-weeks of classes and project work. This period included two so called design challenges: the first was technical and the second one of social nature. Here is…

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Reaching the end of the road. Or not?

Posted on April 21, 2016September 28, 2016 by davidelasi

In an ambitious hardware development project, it is very common to achieve a situation when the end of the road seems to be at reach: you went all the way through a challenging design phase, and you prototyped a few concepts that you iteratively improved until reaching a good confidence level that all initial requirement…

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The art of contracting for agile project or product development

Posted on September 23, 2015September 23, 2015 by davidelasi

The trend towards agile project management poses quite some challenges when such practice has to be framed in the context of a contract with a third party. All in all, remember that the goal of the contract is still to deliver a working product: get rid of all the waste that diverts the focus from delivering real value! Let’s…

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Here we are, on Google Maps in Shinjuku Gyoen!

Posted on July 26, 2015April 6, 2016 by davidelasi

See those two guys laying on the ground in the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen in the middle of Sakura time? It’s me and my wife Desiree 😉 We look forward very much to coming back in the beautiful Tokyo!!!

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George Gray

Posted on March 12, 2015May 25, 2015 by davidelasi

Usually before going to bed, I have my daily dose of couple dead from the Spoon River cemetery. Today I came across George Gray’s grave; it goes like this: I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me – A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth…

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The Rule of 72 and the GMAT

Posted on November 13, 2014February 28, 2016 by davidelasi

The rule of 72 is quite important in the GMAT for the fast estimation of an investment doubling time. I am proud to discover it was an Italian mathematician, Luca Pacioli (1445-1514), a Franciscan friar, to publish it for the first time in Summa de Arithmetica (Venice, 1494. Fol. 181, n. 44). ” A voler sapere ogni quantita…

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Mind Maps for GMAT AWA

Posted on September 29, 2014 by davidelasi

Here is some Mind Maps that I created while preparing for the GMAT AWA Essay. You are free to make whatever use you like of them. These maps are a collection of stuff that I found on many online resources. Please forgive me if I don’t mention the sources, but I did not keep any record….

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The Househusband

Posted on September 29, 2014August 31, 2015 by davidelasi

Exclusively from my friends (great) photographers and publishers of the monthly magazine “CdC”: the Househusband, my homemade (first ever) video production 🙂

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Practicing 1st Paragraphs for the GMAT AWA Essay

Posted on July 30, 2014 by davidelasi

The last thing you wanna do at the AWA GMAT Essay is to get stuck in drafting the first paragraph of the essay. Don’t undervalue the Art of a Good Start. Failing at quickly drafting the first paragraph of the essay may indeed not only put at risk the AWA part of the GMAT, but also…

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…and eventually turned out to be a 6.0 Essay!

Posted on July 7, 2014February 28, 2016 by davidelasi

After much effort, the final score on my July’s GMAT AWA Essay was 6.0!!! In the previous GMAT test I did in 2009 I took a depressing 3.0: quite a big leap forward! I am very happy about this!!! I will post soon some additional material (e.g., Mind Maps) that I created and used for my preparation…

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