This book is my story and in many ways may become the story of your work, career, and job. So, pay heed. Understand the conventional rules and challenge/hack the rules described in Working It: The Rules Have Changed.
Freemiums:
1. At the end of this article, we share how you can get a free review copy of the 200 page book.
2. Visit WorkingIt.com for additional fun and insights on work. Continue reading
Risk as a term, is often used or perceived as being synonymous with defence. Being defensive is not a bad thing – but being solely defensive, means your organisation may be missing opportunities. Events of recent times, global financial crisis (GFC) and others, have shown that the historical approaches to governance oversight have not worked. Key points arising from the inquiry into the GFC included:
Reliability Input into Design ReviewsConsider the following scenario: You are a reliability engineer working for a large corporation that plans to launch a new product. On occasion, you and the team sit down to review the design. The idea is to check the design for any issues with the combined wisdom of all the players involved. Or, perhaps, the review serves as just a status update for the entire team, providing a focus on the most important issues and action items. Continue reading
Software demographics and software work patterns show interesting changes over the past few decades. A study in 1990 noted 116 software occupations but only 5 involving quality and none involving risks or cyber-attacks. An updated study in 2016 noted 205 total software occupations of which 32 were involved with risks, cyber-attacks, and quality. This is due to the huge increase in numbers and types of software cyber-attacks. Continue reading
Introduction
In this article we posit three questions. The first question is: “Is it a social responsibility of companies that they undertake a comprehensive risk assessment?” The second question: “Does the notion of conscience and its application to the generation and use of risk information and information in general, create an obligation for the organization to disclose
the results of the comprehensive risk assessment?” The third question “How do the people 
in the organization communicate the information from the comprehensive risk assessment to stakeholders and yet preserve security and protect the organization?” Continue reading