Is plausible deniability dead?
One strategy of corporate counsel that has been shown in various media reports is “plausible deniability”. Ethics rules for attorneys may require them to reveal compromising facts to the opposing side. If you can show you didn’t know that the plant could blow up and it blew up; then it may not be your fault. Nice legal term called ‘legal causation’. No facts to prove the case. Sorry victims, it was an act of God, an accident.
Pattern matching is a predictive methodology that uses a formal taxonomy to compare results of historical software projects against the possible outcomes of new software projects that are about to start development.
Pattern matching for software starts with a questionnaire that uses multiple-choice questions. These questions elicit information about a new project, such as its nature, scope, class, type, and complexity. Continue reading
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.