5 Articles match "Process","Rational"

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• Christmas reading: Classic essays on software development
  
  The ones about project management take up a bit less space but they are still plentiful, and the ones about people in the process take up even less space but are longer lasting. Rational Development Process and How to Fake It by Dave Parnas. In this paper Parnas argues that while we may want to use a rational development process, and while it makes sense to do so it is impossible. And since you can’t schedule these things or guarantee they will happen the chances of following a rational process are negligible. The technical ones alone (e.g.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Saturday, December 22, 2007
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• The final sustainable edge
  
  The authors advocate the creation of “process networks” and “process orchestrators.” In a process network a variety of different companies come together to produce a product. design, manufacture, end-customers) and one company takes the lead in organizing all of these - the process orchestrator. So, for example, lower wages mean a higher manager-to-worker ration so managers can spend more time helping the worker develop, e.g. Likewise, they see the rise of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) as a building block for their “process networks.” think not.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, September 4, 2005
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• Confirmation bias
  
  Confirmation bias means that we human’s aren’t a rational and neutral as we like to think we are. However they are useful, they serve as short cuts which enable us to process information faster. Couple more thoughts I picked up last week. finally found out the name of something I’ve know about for a while: Confirmation bias. This is the brain’s tendency to seek out information that supports are existing beliefs, and to put more faith in evidence that supports out current beliefs; rather than take a purely balanced view. Trouble is, I didn’t know I was making them.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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• Fixing Health Care
  
  Health care rationing already happens now, and it will increase in the future. Make FDA approval process much faster and cheaper. The hysterical screaming over health care has reached outlandish new lows. One thing I’ve learned is that policy debates are exactly like political debates: misinformation, exaggeration, outright lies, and bitter hatred for the opposition. This isn’t a good way to transform a $2 trillion chunk of our economy. For posterity, here’s an outline of how to “fix health care”. There are two problems with health care. and government).
  Handwaving - Tuesday, October 13, 2009
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• Lean Question and Answer
  
  This means you can't engage in Systems Thinking properly and are likely to come up with sub-optimal processes. Is the team changing their process? The practices support learning and change but change is not a rational thing. A student at Fullerton University in California e-mailed a lot of people on the Lean Software Development mailing list with some questions for his masters thesis. Since I had a little time on my hands I wrote him some lengthy answers. Having done that I though I would share them here. How would you define lean development? Slowly. Slowly.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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