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#351 – IS IT TOO LATE TO FULFILL YOUR DREAMS? MAYBE NOT – ALLEN TAYLOR

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When I was in my mid-twenties, early in my career as a design engineer, I had a coworker named Vince. He was in his mid-forties and had been around the block a couple of times. I was promoted to group leader early on, while he was treading water, career-wise. This, combined with some other things in his life convinced him that his chance had passed and that he would probably make no more progress in life. How depressing! Continue reading →

#350 – TWO STEP APPROACH TO GET BETTER AT WHAT YOU DO – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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How is it that some people continue to get better at managing meetings, designing complex test plans, making presentations, or solving problems? How in general do people improve their performance over time at something?

Two Questions

Peter Bregman in a Harvard Business Review article (November 09, 2019) titled “If You Want to Get Better at Something, Ask Yourself These Two Questions” outlined the process. The first question is: “Do you want to get better?” If you accept your current performance then there is no need to go further. Continue reading →

#350 – PROJECT REQUIREMENTS ARE A RISK – JOHN AYERS

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Some common reasons why requirements can cause risk to a project are:

  • To be determined (TBD)
  • Late requirements definition
  • Unclear requirement definition
  • Changing requirements
  • Late requirement flow down to subcontractors
  • Incorrect or poorly defined interface documents

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#350 – ELECTORAL QUALITY AND INTEGRITY – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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On September 15, 2021, ASQ announced the formation of the Center for Electoral Quality and Integrity. This announcement caused a conflicted reaction.  On the one hand I liked that the Government Division, which was pushing this action, was showing some level of activity, after almost none for several years. One the other hand, I just laughed at the idea that ASQ and Government Division was going to, or even be capable of, having an impact on electoral quality or integrity. This is not a case of believing the objective is bad. Continue reading →

#350 – SHAME ON YOU CANADA – BILL POMFRET PH.D.

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The discovery of what is believed to be the remains of 215 children at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., has stunned Canadians and renewed focus on what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a “dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history.” It is also another reminder for Indigenous peoples living in Canada of a painful history they’ve known about all along. Continue reading →