Following is a collection of 20 goals or targets for software engineering progress developed by Namcook Analytics LLC for the five years between 2014 and 2018. All of these goals are achievable in 2014 and in fact have already been achieved by a small selection of leading companies.
Unfortunately less than 5% of U.S. and global companies have achieved any of these goals, and less than 1% have achieved most of them. None of the author’s clients have achieved every goal. Continue reading
The structural methods used by the Rhode Island General Assembly for proposing and passing laws are chaotic and unprofessional.
Rhode Island is the smallest state in the union (US), but the legislature proposes more bills than any other state including New York and California. The legislature is the most expensive in the United States. It is also one of the largest on a per-capita basis except for sparsely populated states such as Alaska. Perhaps 2,200 bills per year are proposed, but only a few hundred are passed. As a result, many bills are never even read before voting. Hundreds more bills are lost somewhere in committees for further study. Continue reading
In 2006, Rhode Island had 13 hospitals and almost 100 nursing homes that employ professional nurses. There are also many visiting nurses who provide in-home assistance. There are six nursing schools at Rhode Island universities and colleges, including University of Rhode Island, Salve Regina, Rhode Island College, the Community College of Rhode Island, the St. Joseph School of Nursing, and the Memorial Hospital School of Nurse Anesthesia. Continue reading
INTRODUCTION
For almost two weeks the country (the United States) and the press have been mesmerized by the partial shut down of the Federal government and by the threat that the U.S. will default on its financial obligations due to failure to raise the debt limit.
These problems are due to conflicts between the Republicans and the Democrats on spending versus taxes, and more recently on the pros and cons of the Affordable Health Care act commonly known as ‘Obamacare.’
Both Obamacare and the government shut down have risks associated with them. From the external viewpoint of an independent voter whose work involves risk analysis, neither side appears to have done a careful examination of any of the risks from either Obamacare itself or from the shutdown of the government. Continue reading
From working as an expert witness in a number of lawsuits where large software projects were cancelled or did not operate correctly when deployed, five major problems occur repeatedly: