We’re always struggling with task management, it seems. I’ve got a great system for personal task management, but what about shared tasks—things that depend on other people? Or perhaps things that need to be worked on collaboratively… I’d like to have a system that lets me hand tasks off to other people. And of course, [...]
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Formal inspection is a defect detection, removal and correction verification process carried out by a small group during the pre-test phases of the development life cycle. The primary objective of formal inspections is to remove defects as early as possible in the development process. This is a brief introduction into formal inspections and the background behind them.
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There are two kinds of organizations: Those that ship faulty software, and those that don’t. Unfortunately, trying to change from one that does ship faulty software to one that does not is nearly impossible. Why is it that changing into a “defect free” organization so difficult?
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Within mere hours of of Kenya Airways Flight 507 going down, the world knew about it. My own dashboard showed me an alarmingly large red circle in my Buzztracker, noting a major event of world news. It’s truly amazing that we’ve reached a level of technology and information sharing that we have a near consensus-awareness [...]
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Someone recently likened protecting illegal immigrants to protecting a thief. I can’t quite remember the quote, but in any case it’s a simple, black-and-white view of a complicated problem: Let’s say someone breaks into your home and steals things, and then your neighbor helps hide them. They should both go to jail right? That’s exactly [...]
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Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and [...]
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In the latest scandalous developments from our current Presidential administration (it’s important to note the latest since so much comes so fast these days), we learn that nearly five million email messages have now gone missing. Normally that might be a nuisance but once the missing messages become the focus of an intense search for [...]
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This is simply one of the most well-written tongue-in-cheek works of satire I’ve found in some time… truly worthy of The Colbert Report. [George Bush] has worked to change his strategy and listen to all voices… We should commend George Bush not only for his courageous leadership abroad, but also here at home. Or… is [...]
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I haven’t been truly excited to vote in this country’s Presidential elections since… Well, before I was born. I imagine I would have been very excited to vote for Kennedy. Unfortunately, that was before my time. Since then my strategy has been a simple one: Vote against. There is always someone that we should vote [...]
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President Bush, facing opposition from both parties over his plan to send more troops to Iraq, said he has the authority to act no matter what Congress wants. “I fully understand they could try to stop me from doing it. But I’ve made my decision. And we’re going forward,” Bush told CBS’ “60 Minutes” in [...]
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Before the “war on terror” America was well regarded. We actually had an advantage in the global economy — as a global superpower that had not abused our power (at least not too blatantly) we were by and large looked upon favorably. We had a big stick, and as long as we didn’t use it, [...]
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It’s true. And I should probably do something about it. $2,400 could buy a second generation High Definition TV or schooling for an entire generation of school children in an Angolan village.
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
