#32 – HEALTHCARE.GOV: HOW SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT RISK WAS NOT MANAGED – GARY GACK

Posted on by
Reply

GG-photo-20100224There’s a lot we don’t yet know about this classic disaster, but nonetheless it is not too early to examine several obvious flaws in the approach. Top software professionals knew at the outset of various measures that would have saved a lot of expense and embarrassment, but were not applied.  It seems clear this project was “managed” by comparative amateurs clearly not up to the management challenge. This effort did not fail for technical reasons – virtually all of the issues that have arisen were foreseeable and preventable. Continue reading →

#32 – THE RISK OF KNOWING TOO MUCH – MARK MOORE

Posted on by
Reply

Mark MooreI had a similar thought about two completely different things recently.  The first is merely an example from life – its’ one of those things that you really don’t want to think about and if you can avoid knowing it at all (which means you should skip the next paragraph) that’s probably a good thing.

The second comes from material I’ve been preparing to teach a class on testing.  But, I don’t want to get ahead of myself …

So,is it possible to know too much and does that knowledge put you at risk or at least a disadvantage? Continue reading →

#32 – PEOPLE ARE DYING PRODUCING YOUR PRODUCT – KELLY EISENHARDT

Posted on by
Reply


Kelly EisenhardtPeople Are Dying Producing Your Product – Conversation with Arche Advisers CEO Greg Gardner.  This article was originally published on CSRwire Talkback, September 12, 2013.”

http://www.csrwire.com/blog/posts/1011-people-are-dying-producing-your-product-in-conversation-with-arche-advisers-ceo-greg-gardner?utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=CSR%2Band%2Bsustainability%2Bnews#! Continue reading →

#31 – PEOPLE WHO SAY SUPPLY CHAIN JIT WON’T WORK ARE RIGHT – FOR THE WRONG REASONS – KAREN WILHELM

Posted on by
Reply

Karen WilhelmBack in the early 1980s, manufacturers in America woke up to the fact that Toyota and other Japanese companies were outperforming them on quality and efficiency.  They looked across the Pacific and copied the first thing they could see — rapid delivery of parts to the plant.  They called it Just-in-Time and mandated it from their suppliers. Continue reading →

#31 – LOGISTICS: NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE RISKS – UMBERTO TUNESI

Posted on by
Reply

Umberto Tunesi pixTo the majority of modern people, logistics mean transportation, that is many big trucks traveling fast even on narrow roads, and warehousing – that is, large grey buildings making panoramas quite obscene.

This view is correct, but the conventional view of logistics does not dig deeper into what logistic processes are, should be, and are intended to be. Continue reading →