Jinn of Quality and Risk

Jinn?

Reportedly an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtain of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. Grants wishes.

Bio?

Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict

Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — good genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany

Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly language, Pascal, C/C++, etc.

Jobs: factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, language lawyer, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, consultant, director of technology, solutions architect, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer

Projects

Write a book, quickly. Read, more. Sleep, less. Travel in Europe and America, v.soon. Find a job, again.

Links

Friday, February 22, 2002

Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet

While knowledge sharing clearly involves people and processes, knowledge management is too often seen as a tool. Overcoming KM's Obstacles: "Knowledge management systems have the potential to become the most important means of information dissemination to hit the enterprise since e-mail, but product weaknesses and thorny political issues remain major barriers to successful deployments."

Being Popular: "What does make a [programming] language popular? Do popular languages deserve their popularity? Is it worth trying to define a good programming language? How would you do it?"

Java Web Start: "Java Web Start is a new application-deployment technology that gives you the power to launch full-featured applications with a single click from your Web browser. You can now download and launch applications, such as a complete spreadsheet program or an Internet chat client, without going through complicated installation procedures. "

The Project and The Expedition

The Lewis and Clark expedition/project "began with an enormous amount of training and planning. The sponsor (Thomas Jefferson) and the project manager (Lewis) worked together preparing the requirements. They knew they would have to rely on a lot of exploratory testing. Lewis pieced together the right people to make up the team. They were experts in extreme programming. After each iteration, the manager and comanager (Clark) constantly revised the development plans. Many of the initial requirements proved naive and unworkable."

Social Network Analysis

"How do knowledge workers learn? How do they decide what to learn next? What motivates them to share? These questions are central to the challenges of knowledge management, and yet most corporate portals and online communities are designed in ignorance of their answers."

What is Babble?

A tool for computer-mediated communication (CMC) through structural and interactive properties. Includes persistence and a minimalist graphical representation of users and their activities (a "social proxy").

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