I sincerely hope MS get their feet held to the fire over this.
As an ex-IBMer, I have wondered for years why Microsoft is not drowning in antitrust cases (or the modern fashionable class actions). For the 13 years the second A-T case against IBM ran, every employee signed off the Business Conduct Guidelines every year, and knew that a breach of the BCG was cause for instant dismissal.
MS doesn't seem to think unethical behaviour is even noticed.
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May be unusual stuff, may be stuff you can get near you, but if Dad got it sent From Abroad...
Of such things is Street Cred made.
"chances are your immediate manager knows you and will be able to tell if a fake calls him up pretending to be you."
Not in a "modern" company like British Telecom Design division, where your line manager might have 100+ direct reports, lives in another city, and might meet you face-to-face once in two years.
Can't find a source today; and don't remember the rate of deposition per sq meter; but I'm pretty sure I got it from New Scientist in discussions about the measurements of "weathering" on the Moon. "Weathering" does occur (thermal stress, meteor strikes, etc), but we probably need a new word for it before people will connect it correctly in their heads.
As regards data, I think I can rely on reports by the Apollo astronauts that there was no atmosphere on the Moon, and therefore no wind.
The comment "Is the wind is going to blow the dust onto the mirror??" is not Insightful, it's Flamebait.
And I fell for it. D'oh.
which as always, will require correction. In this case, for the Moon's own rotation (for instance, Coriolis force if not at a pole). And precessionary wobbles, if the Moon is still precessing.
along the quay in Port O' Spain, with his bird on his shoulder. He's accosted by an old shipmate, who says: "why Long John, your bird's saying PIECES OF SEVEN! PIECES OF SEVEN!" To which Long John replies "Never mind, it's only a parity error"
Oh God. In the summary, I read Modem Pentathlon instead of Modern, and pictured jogging with a 3COM 56K Turbo in your hand...
I really, really, need to retire from this bloody line of business.
I've been earning my living from doing process designs and mapping the last few years. This is what I've found:
Avoid management edicts - the staff have to WANT to document the processes, so you must work out what the benefits to the staff are, and point them out (repeatedly)
Make the staff who operate the process owners of the documentation, with the rights and access to keep it up-to-date
You MUST find a way to enforce proper process design concepts and discipline or you'll
end up with an inaccurate misleading shambles which no-one uses just because it's not right
You need to show flows in 2 dimensions, and be able to drill down into any step to see the detail below it (and then drill again and again)
Tools
Avoid flowcharts - they have no way to record essential aspects of the process (state
information, step responsibility, resources required) and do not support multi-level
Avoid Word and other text approaches - they are one-dimensional and single-level and do not reflect the two-dimensional and multi-level reality
Avoid Word and other text approaches because they are actually a very inefficient and
tedious way of capturing the information (in an extreme case, I mapped in 2 hours a process
from a Word doc that the author had taken a week to write - and he agreed that mine was
more complete and usable)
Avoid Visio - it claims to support process mapping but does not handle multi-level nor
enforce correct use of symbols
The Swiss Army Knife (Champion model) of process tools is ARIS from IDS Scheer. It's very disciplined, will model anything, loads of map types supported, it'll do anything you ask. But it's expensive to buy and implement, very enterprisey. Complete overkill for a non-profit of 100 people.
My Choice: "control" from Nimbus Partners. Provides all the functionality with just
enough enforcement, excellent version control, simple and light to install, good licensing
structure makes it much cheaper to deploy. Fast enough that you can record the process
during a conversation or workshop (tidy up later). Specially useful feature: you make a
link between any step and the application needed to carry it out. This is a way to make the
process documentation central to daily work, so it really will get used.
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I sincerely hope MS get their feet held to the fire over this.
As an ex-IBMer, I have wondered for years why Microsoft is not drowning in antitrust cases (or the modern fashionable class actions). For the 13 years the second A-T case against IBM ran, every employee signed off the Business Conduct Guidelines every year, and knew that a breach of the BCG was cause for instant dismissal.
MS doesn't seem to think unethical behaviour is even noticed.
at long last I can build a life sized [Hemos] Tux statue for my office
FTFY
London Science Museum shop http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/shoponline.aspx
May be unusual stuff, may be stuff you can get near you, but if Dad got it sent From Abroad...
Of such things is Street Cred made.
"chances are your immediate manager knows you and will be able to tell if a fake calls him up pretending to be you."
Not in a "modern" company like British Telecom Design division, where your line manager might have 100+ direct reports, lives in another city, and might meet you face-to-face once in two years.
"jeremiad", now that's what Mark Twain would have called a 10-dollar word. I love it, and now I can dump my 10-cent word "rant".
Can't find a source today; and don't remember the rate of deposition per sq meter; but I'm pretty sure I got it from New Scientist in discussions about the measurements of "weathering" on the Moon. "Weathering" does occur (thermal stress, meteor strikes, etc), but we probably need a new word for it before people will connect it correctly in their heads.
As regards data, I think I can rely on reports by the Apollo astronauts that there was no atmosphere on the Moon, and therefore no wind. The comment "Is the wind is going to blow the dust onto the mirror??" is not Insightful, it's Flamebait. And I fell for it. D'oh.
I was countering the Insightful modding of the comment about wind blowing dust onto the mirror. Can you believe, it's now at Score 4. Depressing.
Mod parent -1 Not Very Insightful At All. Moon surface has constant fall of dust thrown up by constant meteorite impacts.
which as always, will require correction. In this case, for the Moon's own rotation (for instance, Coriolis force if not at a pole). And precessionary wobbles, if the Moon is still precessing.
The interview is in Dutch, not Swedish. And since the researchers' names are Robert E. Lee and Jack C. Lewis, I don't believe they are Swedish either.
along the quay in Port O' Spain, with his bird on his shoulder. He's accosted by an old shipmate, who says: "why Long John, your bird's saying PIECES OF SEVEN! PIECES OF SEVEN!" To which Long John replies "Never mind, it's only a parity error"
Oi be a Linux pirate, using Digikam and its HAAR Wavelets (boom boom)
Oh God. In the summary, I read Modem Pentathlon instead of Modern, and pictured jogging with a 3COM 56K Turbo in your hand... I really, really, need to retire from this bloody line of business.
- Avoid management edicts - the staff have to WANT to document the processes, so you must work out what the benefits to the staff are, and point them out (repeatedly)
- Make the staff who operate the process owners of the documentation, with the rights and access to keep it up-to-date
- You MUST find a way to enforce proper process design concepts and discipline or you'll
end up with an inaccurate misleading shambles which no-one uses just because it's not right
- You need to show flows in 2 dimensions, and be able to drill down into any step to see the detail below it (and then drill again and again)
Tools