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In Agbogbloshie, a community in Accra, Ghana, people descend on a scrapyard to mine electronic waste for recyclable materials. Without forma [...]
After fleeing war-torn South Sudan as a child, Mary Maker found security and hope in the school at Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp. Now a t [...]
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Social justice belongs in our schools, says educator Sydney Chaffee. In a bold talk, she shows how teaching students to engage in activism h [...]
AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee de [...]
Preamble All too often choosing a development method is seen as a matter of faith, to be enforced uniformly whatever the problems at hand. A [...]
Preamble Humans often expect concepts to come with innate if vague meanings before being compelled to withstand endless and futile controver [...]
Preamble Digital environments and the ubiquity of software in business processes introduces a new perspective on value chains and the assess [...]
“For things to remain the same, everything must change” Lampedusa, “The Leopard” Preamble Whatever the understanding of the discipline, mos [...]
Self-driving vehicles should behave like humans, here is how to teach them so. Preamble The eventuality of sharing roads with self-driven ve [...]
IS 2018 in Washington DC is fast approaching. I hope you will be able to attend. The Requirement Working Group (RWG) is scheduled to meet f [...]
Implementing a model-based systems engineering (MBSE) process is difficult. I have been invited to be one of three speakers at a half-day se [...]
Wow! IW 2018 is already 3 weeks behind us! We had a record attendance at our sessions with a very full agenda that included many good presen [...]
The RWG has a full agenda planned for IW 2018, Jan 20-23, 2017 in Jacksonville, FL. Our focus will be on the following topics. Welcome new m [...]
This is part 5 of the blog series “Communicating Requirements – Effectively”. In part 4, I discussed the advantages of text-based requiremen [...]
In my book "The Manager's Guide for Effective Leadership" I stress the importance of giving people control over the processes [...]
We last addressed your leadership action plan at the end of the review of lectures 11-16. If you are a diligent student you have been very b [...]
The first 22 lectures deal with the management functions of staffing, communicating and motivating. The remainder of the lectures deals with [...]
Everything discussed up to this point is supportive of the manager’s main function, which is leading the organization in accomplishing its s [...]
In most cases the largest cause in a Pareto chart is the first target for improving a process. However, in this example the students aren’t [...]
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I've added a couple more memos to my thoughts on producing the second edition of Refactoring. Last week I shone a light on the hidden h [...]
We've got a cover design for the second edition of Refactoring. As with any book in my signature series, I needed to decide which bridg [...]
Worm's Head, Swansea, Wales (2017) [...]
As monolithic systems become too large to deal with, many enterprises are drawn to breaking them down into the microservices architectural s [...]
“Knock, knock…” That’s not a coming attraction. It’s an invitation. An opening. A bit of tension in terms of closure. A coming attraction, o [...]
You’re probably familiar with class rank. Among all the kids in this high school, compared to everyone else’s GPA, where do you stand? And y [...]
If you make a product that costs $5 to produce and package, how much should you charge for it? I don’t know. But there’s a simple bit of ari [...]
“What should we do with all the left-handed people?” “There are far too many people in this organization who wear glasses. It’s hurting our [...]
In many fields, there’s a big name. The exclusive slot. The top ranking or badge. This is being a top 10 podcast, or on a certain bestseller [...]
