Agile

Jan 16 2008   1:13AM GMT

Become more one

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Security, Agile, Business, IT, Alliance, Fellowship, Government

Reading a SearchSoftwareQuality.Com article, Software development trends in 2008: Outsourcing, agile development (26 Dec 2007), you may venture to reading an article noted within that is from way back in Feb 2007, The state of software quality, part 2: The challenge of building quality into the development life cycle. Within it you may discover this quote, “If you give someone four hours to do an eight-hour job, there’s a limit on what they can do no matter how motivated they are”—Kaner. You may next feel there is some value in the quote and decide you agree to a degree. For example, perhaps commenting along these lines… if you give a person half the time required to do it right, and then distract them during with emergencies, further reducing their time and decreasing their focus, you can expect, short of a miracle or superpowers, that outcomes overall will be less than ideal; even if they have the right attitude, rest and skills. Sure, they might complete deliverables within an allotted window, but they may not have had the luxury of time to consider the impacts of what they quickly produced. Ideally they managed to avoid performance issues, security threats or other matters including serious harm in someway to the world. In any event, their meeting a target date may be far worse than if they just said no to begin with. Anyone who has been around the industry long enough knows that additional resources, methodologies, tools, proper attitude and more are among important or essential items, however when it gets down to well defined requirements and estimates, many start cutting chances of great outcomes very early. Many issues therefore can often be avoided most likely with a simple bit of realism injected into getting the right resources (e.g., people and machines), and allowing the right amount of time, while inherently practicing proactive risk management and sharing positive energy to keep morale high. Of course such things are sometimes easier said than done, and sometimes what it really comes down to is simply, education. For example, those setting the target dates and constraints (e.g., financial), are not always the ones with it [the education, or the essential knowledge]. They are therefore not always the IT Pro, and what more often may be needed is for the Business and IT to become more one, and for both to better educate each other and work more as one. By doing so, and by increasingly also involving the consumers or general public within overall success formulas, they may even discover many more ways to enable increasing levels of inherent quality, value, excellence and simplicity.

Dec 7 2007   8:20PM GMT

Wisdom

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Agile, Unification

To the words of Dr. John Demartini within this wisdom flash, you might add: 1) it is important to further unification and in humility to count others better than yourself; 2) it is important to live for others. In the spirit of sharing a few potential flashes of wisdom this post shares a few links: Dec 04 news about XT5; whitepaper on how to create a more flexible and agile company; Dec 07 news about ConceptShare (company prior mentioned in this post).

Sep 8 2007   2:17AM GMT

Be agile and keep an open mind

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Fun, Agile

By 2020 will continued unique blending of unity and diversity more so globally enable radical maturity and convergence relative to the inherent characteristics and behaviors of operating systems, applications, mobile devices and the net?

The fun surfing link to go with this post shares awareness of an upcoming event on 28 September 2007: W3C / OpenAjax Workshop on Mobile Ajax

Sep 3 2007   6:25PM GMT

Inside

Posted by: viip
Inherent Quality, Software Quality, Agile

The inside (or inner joy) is important. So too is it important the world become more so one. This however does not mean the world should become single-minded. Dyer it appears would agree. He also suggests each of us must: let go of ego, connect to the source, pay attention to flow and practice trusting our inner nature. As each realizes we are alike on the inside, and as each learns to produce and extend more inner joy and becomes more so one in terms of connecting to the source, positive energy will flow into creations as well as into more open and agile collaborations. Overall, quality of life will become progressively better for all, for every. As a contributor to enhancing quality of life, you therefore must help ensure a mindset for inherent quality continues to mature by allowing inspiration for evolving viip to virtually come from anywhere.

Aug 25 2007   5:38PM GMT

Good

Posted by: viip
Software Quality, Inherent Quality, IBM, Microsoft, Security, Fun, Agile, Unification

Within all there is energy for good and a creative genius that can contribute to generating greater viip for self and others. Changing our thinking will enable us to see this and to generate greater joy throughout the world. Connect with the source. Work the inner nature. Apply the creative genius within to produce greater good. Grasp the essence and find your purpose. Through discovery, sharing and maturing all shall gain. 

As upstarts and giants of all types more so come together, and as they are joined by the general pubic to pursue with earnest matters of high purpose (and urgency and importance to the world at large), quality will achieve unimagined levels well beyond what is being achieved in the first part of the 21st Century. Perfect vision leap year 2020 and beyond is poised for serious goodness if all help bring IT together to make things progressively better such as per words within this article (look for these words… evolution; centers on the evolving nature of computing; need to work with both partners and competitors in order to bring this all together; users are largely telling us what they want and it’s changing how we do business; need to evolve to keep pace; it’s important for the industry as a whole to invest in this; it’s not important that Microsoft build an identity system and get everyone to use it; and it’s not important that anyone else do that either; what is important is that they all work together; maybe that’s something that you haven’t heard from us in the past, but you’ll hear more of it in the future).  

Live the wisdom of God, TAO or what you consider to be your divine source. Find the common ground, the goodness that helps ensure a common foundation and connects us all. Within each of us there is an anchor to the universe. Look for, find and make small getting started changes. As we each do this we build towards accomplishing great things. A journey of 1000 miles does begin with one step. Return to your source and connect with well-being a moment at a time. Transform.  

As we let go of our ego (what we have, what we do, what others think of us) we learn to shift from fear to being curious of what we are afraid of. Shift from control to trust. Shift from a sense of entitlement to radical humility. Be wise, help all impartially, and abandon none. Live with flexibility. Transfer rigid to agile. We are water and can enter anywhere or in anyone. Water is the supreme good. Be less rigid and accomplish more. We must be flexible. Like yoga which means union we must be one with our source and flexible including in our thinking as the latter is a compass in life and heavens way to conquer is being done. Change from seeing yourself as separate to being connected to everyone in the universe. We are all one. We come from the same source known by different names. We are a tree (a family, humanity); no tree has or should have branches as foolish as to fight themselves.

The path to achieving and increasing goodness is not what is most important however. There really is no path as it is ever changing and with each change goodness is enabled to higher levels. What is important is to bring goodness to the path. Ensure goodness is inherent and bring it to the journey. Elevate quality, value, excellence and simplicity from the inside out and outside in. Goodness within leads to intrinsic and pervasive greatness from a journey that begins with a single step. Thank you for each step, for your perseverance, for motivating others, and for instilling fun, love and value. Help ensure a continually better world by 2020 and beyond thanks to the innate characteristics associated with software, technology, information and all peoples. Discover and mature inherent qualities. From any and all perspectives (and to ensure ever increasing value and joy for self and all), share, creatively mature and innovatively embed a mindset to progressively and continually have real quality occur more inherently or be more inherent.  

Simply stated, quality assurance equates to prevention, quality control to detection, quality improvement to enhancement, quality management to governance, quality inherent to viip. Value based information is facilitating paradigm shifts that will enable collective wisdom to generate a simple common set of elements that truly define Qual IT. Give and build positive energy and ensure compliance inherently. It is time for more unification to improve software, technology and information. Merge associations, frameworks, products and methods to increase simplicity and elevate the aims of each. As more awaken to the power of unification the world will innately grow better and stronger as increased unification is essential as the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Quality must be built within the individuals involved. It must be inherent in their DNA and within the DNA of that which they use, interface with and produce. The world will continually be changed for the better as a result of individuals and teams embedding quality and making quality decisions that increasingly enable this.  Progressively teams will include intelligence embedded within the technology both produced from quality decisions and used to make quality decisions. As you make quality decisions they will change you. Not just you and the job but others too as quality fans out like waves. Pirsig of course said this many years ago. The notion of inherent quality has of course existed for centuries (e.g.) and fun is of course becoming a better understood characteristic (e.g.). As more awaken to the inherent notion it will be further matured and produce unimagined good. We may even start to more so inherently ensure quality and value the first time. Part of the essence of the notion is a progressive change of culture and mindset that beings first within oneself. 

Do the inherent characteristics of standards fulfill the requirement to ensure quality? Will they more so in the future? Will more unification and harmonization help? As more blog about examples of things which make quality innate or occur innately (and about what in the future will more so do this), standards and tools will continue to evolve and ensure greater levels of value. The results will be far reaching; particularly as IT progressively becomes more so a global community of practice and sharing.

A fun link to go along with this post is Answers.com. Among other within you will note quality defined in 1.a. as an “inherent or distinguishing characteristic”. As you continue scrolling along you will also note that the meaning for the term quality has developed over time and that now various interpretations exists. The first then listed is ISO 9000 - “Degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements”. 

A few words of wisdom that are perhaps suitable at this juncture are provided below.

Improvements in quality always and automatically result in reductions in schedules and costs, increases in productivity, increases in market share, and consequently increases in profits. — Dr. W. Edwards Deming

If you want a high quality software system, you must ensure each of its parts is of high quality. —
Watts S. Humphrey

We are only starting to connect the dots — Rosella Abella

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus — Mark Twain

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. — George Bernard Shaw

To have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future — Joyce Meyer

Accountability breeds response-ability — Stephen R. Covey

The one thing that changes everything is trust — Stephen M. R. Covey

The time is always right to do what is right. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every journey begins with a single step… do the best you can and then keep the pressure on for a better system… we could have as little as 10 years in which to make significant changes… there is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly go alone, but if you want to go far go together, we need to go far quickly, which means we need to get a common base of agreement on the basic facts about this crisis as quickly as we can and then move forward together — Al Gore (Global Warming)

We must try to do something good, something useful with our lives. Try to be at peace with yourself and help others to share that peace. If you contribute to others’ happiness, you will find the true goal, the meaning of life — Dali Lama

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. — Albert Einstein

The whole is more than the sum of its parts — Aristotle