Project Management

Quality blogging

Sharing awareness of a couple of new Quality related blogs: Quality Assurance and Project Management; Managing Software Development and QC/QA. Welcome aboard Jaideep and Zohair; look forward to reading your posts as well as related comments by others.

Help evolve quality and value towards being increasingly intrinsic and pervasive. Thank you for doing so.

TM, PM and Education (that is free, and stress free)

Back in March awareness of a new science of peace was shared. Imagine peace manifested in various ways, for example as free education or as stress free education. With a life long interest in science, spirituality and world peace, Dr. Hagelin attempts to bring related knowledge to more and more people. Continuing his work Dr. Hagelin has recently been very busy in Europe, since October in fact. His focus is on Transcendental Meditation. TM is apparently the world’s most thoroughly documented and researched self-development program with more than 600 research studies proving a wide range of benefits. The practice is said to be natural and automatic, easily learned and easy to do.

If you would like to read about some related research, perhaps visit Hagelin.org or ISTPP.org. For a discussion on the role of meditation in education perhaps see StressFreeSchools.org or DavidLynchFoundation.org. For theory and research on conflict prevention and world peace perhaps see PermanentPeace.org. For a few PM updates perhaps see these Gantt Head related pages: Ganttface, Project Headway, Wiki pages.

As part of individual and collective efforts and techniques that may progressively enable peace (including in the form of free stress free education globally that may in some ways help to enable peace in all regards), will TM be increasingly linked to PM, and will blogging and Wiki pages be increasingly utilized? 

Thoughts on a variety of topics within the IT space by Michael Wood

Blog post here (excerpt below). Perhaps something within Michael’s post will help make quality and value increasingly more innate, and further help simplify and elevate the alignment of IT and the Business.

It’s time to rethink the way we approach IT. For too long IT has been allowed to exist dysfunctionally within the enterprise on many levels. From CIO relationships to fundemental understanding on how to plan, build and support the needs of the business IT has been allowed to be more art than science…. What follows are my thoughts on a variety of topics within the IT space.