Archive for August 3rd, 2008
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Discussions around a visualisation
Another example of a tool that allows users to have a discussion around a visualization - this time focused around stock prices - Why has google not already created this feature and a community around it - because they are crap at creating user communities.
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Using Checklists to implement Process
Checklists are :
A practical means of capturing processes and procedures
Ensures that issues are not missed
Quick to create
Quick to update
Easy to follow
Easy to adapt to any situation
A quote from Steve McConnell, author of Code Complete and Rapid Development, editor of IEEE Software’s “Best Practices” column.
“Create and use checklists. Checklists are […]
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
What happened to the engineers compensation
“Everyone knows the story of the engineer who in the 1970s cut a hole in the roof of a 3 Series car in his garage and cobbled together BMW’s first convertible to wow reluctant board members. Production engineers in the paint shop recently racked up an impressive first with a new powder-based technology to apply […]
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Targeting the head of “problem space” - by extracting “problem uses-cases”
axiom: When brainstorming - Engineers should be given the “problem use case” first, then brainstorm solutions
Engineers often come up with an idea - then find a problem and apply the idea - the risk is that what they thought was a problem isn’t really a serious one.
It may be better to split brain storming into […]
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Answers site that specialises in a particular category of question - Prediction Markets
Predictify.com - Specializes in prediction market questions - a special category of question - something that we don’t know the answer to now but will be able to definatively know the answer to in the future.
This can be used for :
predicting future events - […]
