Apr 24 2008 10:10AM GMT
Posted by: viip
Project Management,
Inherent Quality,
GanttHead
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?
Mar 14 2008 8:12AM GMT
Posted by: viip
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
Fun,
GanttHead
This post shares awareness of a couple of items that are fairly new and perhaps find of cool bits of fun:
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.
Nov 21 2007 3:33PM GMT
Posted by: viip
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
GanttHead
Send it [joy] to others (e.g.).
Thanks again Michael R. Wood for your words below (from Gantt Head, “Building a Framework for Quality”).
The best general definition of quality that I could find comes from http://inherentquality.com/ and states:“Simply stated [quality] is joy associated with a mindset that seeks to embed value and excellence within people, processes and products.”
Nov 14 2007 9:44PM GMT
Posted by: viip
IBM,
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
GanttHead
To achieve increasing levels of inherent quality simplicity it is important to keep a watch on the amount of necessary overtime (e.g.), to give recognition for jobs well done, and to share awareness of ideas. For example below is an idea (a term) shared in February 2005, that was thought of by a guy named Garrett when he realized the need for a shorthand term to represent the suite of technologies he was proposing to a client.
Text in italics is from the following essay. It is about Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).
Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.
The article goes on to indicate that Ajax incorporates standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT; asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest; and JavaScript binding everything together.
In the spirit of it being time for some simplicity including practicing the importance of giving recognition for extra efforts, this post is a thank you to my entire Production team at AYR. In particular at this juncture I mention Amanda, Derek and those chosen by their peers as stars of recent weeks: Tracy, Mike, Kevin, Trevor, Trever and Kenneth.
Sep 8 2007 8:06PM GMT
Posted by: viip
Software Quality,
Inherent Quality,
GanttHead
Embed value and excellence, and further enable joy. One metric related to doing so is up-time or availability (such as ensuring a high up-time of 100%). Note: InherentQuality.Com is currently hosted on Register.Com servers. Today it went down along with several other sites. The host is apparently addressing the matter however re-propagation may mean several hours before all sites are visible again to the world. In any event, it was a delight to discover this quote today (Thank You); it is from the 4 April 2007 posting by Michael R. Wood on Gantt Head entitled Building a Framework for Quality.
As with most endeavors seeking to establish clarity from abstraction, we will begin with a general definition and work toward more finite terms. The best general definition of quality that I could find comes from http://inherentquality.com/ and states:
“Simply stated [quality] is joy associated with a mindset that seeks to embed value and excellence within people, processes and products.”
