While quality professionals and quality gurus keep trumpeting Innovation & Creativity, they still don’t leave their ivory tower of “rules”.
Six Sigma is an example, though excellent it might be: we live under ISO, Gemba, Muda, Kaizen, Kanban, 5S, 8D, Go-Lean, and so on ruling. It’s a fact. Continue reading
Wherever there is Friction, lubricants are used both to enhance the movement performance and to reduce wear of the moving parts.
WHATEVER kind of friction one can think of: friction does not only belong to gears – and gears, too, are not only metal or plastic wheels, or levers. Continue reading
All companies, big and small, are becoming VUCA-sized. What do we mean? Black Swan events – high consequence and low likelihood events – should be relatively rare but seem to be arising more frequently, such as 100-year storms, volcanic eruptions, oil spills, economic meltdowns, and the list goes on. One thing is crystal clear. The challenges are eclipsing our managerial, technical, and operational capabilities to address today’s problems. VUCA is impacting both organizations and people.
Excerpt from The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering
(To be published by Addison Wesley in the autumn of 2013)
Copyright © 2013 by Capers Jones. All rights reserved.
As many readers know Google has already been working on a prototype of a wearable computer called “Google glass.” The device looks like an ordinary pair of glasses but contains an embedded computer with lenses can display information.
Even after more than 60 years software engineering is not yet a certified profession with licenses, board specialties, and malpractice monitoring as occurs with medicine and law. While there have been some improvements in programming languages, requirements, design, and development methods there is still need for much more progress. Continue reading