Mar 13 2008 11:11AM GMT
Posted by: viip
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
Government,
IT,
Business,
Alliance,
Fellowship
March, a month that implies action, rising, new life, beginning again. This month and onwards as the world marches towards 2020, will there be greater forms of collaboration and teamwork? Will greater alliances bring greater fellowship? Perhaps strong reactions will somehow help to enable expanded thinking about the possibilities of new or enhanced agreements for greater levels of Global Free Trade. Will the world increasingly come together (pros and public) to increasingly address matters of high purpose to continually make things better? For the benefit of all, will forgiveness, compassion, love and belief (e.g., in oneness), increasingly free egos, lift fun and value, and celebrate life within the interconnected universe during March and April, and onwards to 2020 and beyond?
Today is the start of a festival in Ireland where over 1 million will celebrate for five days culminating on Monday March 17 with a world famous St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Ideally the green luck of St. Patrick will help everyone find the pots of gold awaiting them at the end of the revelation rainbow. Echoed below are a few words from an earlier post. Ideally they help somehow to increasingly evolve quality and value.
“it just may be that important functions are not wholly internal to your organization, as a friend of a friend once suggested the offshoot (global chief knowledge officer) of his Chief Technology Officer role was”
“To advance knowledge, related to various important topics such as ethics, the future needs important functions to be more so and increasingly intrinsic and pervasive, so knowledge is shared more so within and external to many organizations. In this way, all shall more so gain. In this way, there more so will be a rebuilding of worth (individual and universal) to greater upwards and inwards dimensions within people, within products, within processes and so on, including relative to rebuilding the capacity for intelligent collaboration within and throughout our world and universe.”
Mar 11 2008 12:13PM GMT
Posted by: viip
Project Management,
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
CIO,
IT,
Business,
GanttHead
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.
Mar 11 2008 1:11AM GMT
Posted by: viip
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
CIO,
IT,
Business,
Fun
For a bit of learning via YouTube, see this Sept 17, 2007 VIIP Post. The ease of use and fun associated with YouTube are innately part of its success. While the video below is simply for fun, the fact that it has been viewed 6,868,617 times and counting since July 22, 2006 is an example of success and popular usage. From a business and IT alignment perspective, it is perhaps a nice companion for the Geek Love Song of the ten most entertaining tech videos of 2007.
Jan 16 2008 1:13AM GMT
Posted by: viip
Security,
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
Government,
Agile,
IT,
Business,
Alliance,
Fellowship
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.
