Yearly Archives: 2007

NCAA Basketball Challenge 2007

Posted on March 12, 2007 by John Hunter

Once again I have created a group on the ESPN NCAA Basketball Tournament Challenge for curiouscat basketball fans. To participate, go to the curiouscat ESPN group [the broken link was removed] and make your picks. Go Badgers and Go Davidson,

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Jeffrey Pfeffer on Evidence-Based Practices

Posted on March 11, 2007 by John Hunter

Jeffrey Pfeffer Testifies to Congress About Evidence-Based Practices [the broken link was removed]: In this short statement, I want to make five points as succinctly as possible, providing references for background and documentation for my arguments. First, organizations in both … Continue reading →

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Investors Business Daily on Deming

Posted on March 10, 2007 by John Hunter

He Pointed Firms To Quality [the broken link was removed] by Kirk Shinkle: Management responsibility took on an almost moral role for Deming. Failure in business and the resulting unemployment could be blamed almost entirely on leadership. Leaders, he believed, … Continue reading →

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Kanban In Software Engineering

Posted on March 9, 2007 by John Hunter

Kanban in Action [the broken link was removed]: The kanban system allows us to deliver on my 3 elements of my recipe for success: reduce work-in-progress (in fact it limits it completely); balance capacity against demand (as new CRs [change … Continue reading →

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Change Health Care

Posted on March 8, 2007 by John Hunter

How Toyota Can Save Your Life…at the hospital by Mark Graban, another great manifesto from Change This:

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Motivating Employees

Posted on March 7, 2007 by John Hunter

No Matter How Badly You Want It: “When it seems easy, it’s like they already wanted to do it in the first place.” Martin paused. “It seems impossible when they didn’t ever want to do it. So, it doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

Posted in Deming, Management, Psychology, Respect | Tagged Deming, managing people, motivation | 1 Comment

Total Quality Software Development

Posted on March 6, 2007 by John Hunter

Total Quality Service podcast by Michael Tiemann, Redhat Software. Do we offshore the problem to somebody else, you know get more bad software cheaper? Or do we fix the problem? I think we fix the problem. Now, in going to … Continue reading →

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Website Data

Posted on March 5, 2007 by John Hunter

The Alexa toolbar, from amazon.com (and by the guy, Brewster Kahle, who created the internet archive too, by the way) is one way to get some idea of how popular a web site is (the toolbar shows the web site … Continue reading →

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All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful

Posted on March 4, 2007 by John Hunter

“All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful” -George Box A great quote. Here is the source: George E.P. Box, Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, page 202 of Robustness in Statistics, R.L. Launer and G.N. Wilkinson, Editors. … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Carnival #6

Posted on March 2, 2007 by John Hunter

Management Improvement ideas from around the web: Lean Q&A by Jamie Flinchbaugh – “There is no recipe, no three-ring binder approach to lean. If someone brings you an approach and says “here is the best way to implement lean,” please, … Continue reading →

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