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Category Archives: IT
Net Neutrality, Policy, Economics and Intelligent Engineering
I believe net neutrality should be championed to prevent decay of the usability of the internet. It seems to me internet connectivity is a natural monopoly that economic theory says should be a regulated monopoly. Smart countries have invested in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Google, Innovation, IT
Tagged commentary, Economics, economy, engineering, internet, IT
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Toyota’s Journey to Lean Software Development
Toyota’s journey from Waterfall to Lean software development by Henrik Kniberg Toyota builds cars (duh). In the past that didn’t involve much software, and the little software that was needed was mostly developed by suppliers and embedded in isolated components. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, IT, Lean thinking, Management, Quality tools, Software Development, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged agile management, IT, Japan, Lean thinking, Software Development, Toyota, Toyota Production System (TPS)
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Improving Software Development with Automated Tests
Automated software testing is a mistake proofing (poka-yoke) solution for software development. The way automated testing works is that software code is written that tests the software code of the application. This automated testing code test that business rules are … Continue reading
Observations of a New Googler
Some interesting thoughts from a new Google engineer, Things I’ve learned at Google so far I would describe Google’s culture as “creative chaos”. There was some confusion about where I was supposed to be when I started. This resulted in … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Google, Innovation, IT, Management, Software Development
Tagged Creativity, Google, Innovation, management, Software Development
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Managing to Test Result Instead of Customer Value
Computer hardware and software creators use benchmarks as one tool to compare the performance of alternative products. At times this can be very useful. You can learn what software of hardware is faster and that may be a very valuable … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Data, programming, Software Development, Systems thinking, targets
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Understanding How to Manage Geeks
The unspoken truth about managing geeks [the broken link was removed] by Jeff Ello IT pros are sensitive to logic — that’s what you pay them for. When things don’t add up, they are prone to express their opinions on … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Psychology, Respect, Software Development
Tagged IT, managing people, programming, Psychology, respect for people, Software Development
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YouTube Uses Multivariate Experiment To Improve Sign-ups 15%
Google does a great job of using statistical and engineering principles to improve. It is amazing how slow we are to adopt new ideas but because we are it provides big advantages to companies like Google that use concepts like … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Data, Design of Experiments, Google, IT, Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, Science, Software Development, Statistics
Tagged curiouscat, Customer focus, Data, Design of Experiments, experiments, Google, Innovation, internet, management, Science, Software Development, Statistics
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Baking in Quality to Software Development
One of the reasons my organizations switched to Ruby on Rails for software development was the great integration with automated testing. We always wanted to have good test coverage on our software applications (which are web applications – some used … Continue reading
Don’t Hide Problems in Computers
Making things visible is a key to effective management. And data in computers can be easy to ignore. Don’t forget to make data visible. Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston recently hosted Hideshi Yokoi, president … Continue reading
Involve IT Staff in Business Process Improvement
I started out basically working on management improvement from the start of my career. My makeup (I am never satisfied and figure things should always be better) along with a few traits, experiences and probably even genes made this a … Continue reading →