I once had a project where an adjacent landowner almost came to blows with my site inspector before any ground was broken. Although we purchased a piece of his land and showed him the plans before the construction bagan, he decided once he saw construction folks arriving on site that the project was going to... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
We propose a new Domain-Specific Language to precisely define the sustainability aspects of an ML model (including the energy costs for its different tasks) that can be exported as an extended Model Card| Modeling Languages
We’ve had an internal training with Emily Bache that I organized, and one of the refactoring exercises sparked a very interesting discussion from a behavioral change in the code.| Florian Krämer
Talent management is simple. All that is necessary is to match the many people in any particular rank and specialty who are moving at a given time to the right job that matches talent, enables professional growth, meets personal and family needs, and maximizes unit effectiveness and efficiency. Maybe it is not so simple after all. Sarah Kaiser and Jacy Park join host Lou Yuengert to discuss the results of their research on talent management in the Army and larger Department of Defense (DoD). ...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
What happens when you get three experienced soldiers together to discuss something they've worked on for much of their careers? Well, the first thing that happens is that they "go secure" and start speaking in acronyms. More importantly, you get an enthusiastic conversation about transforming the Army to support soldiers now and well into the future. LTG Ross Coffman is in the virtual studio with hosts Lou Yuengert and Bob Bradford, and as the Deputy Commanding General of Futures Command, he'...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Scope issues are the #1 reason for project failure. Today more than ever, it's imperative that all projects need a scope management plan. Scope management refers to the process of identifying and controlling the total resources that are involved in a project. It is important that scope be defined exactly. Too little, and you will have... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
How can Fujitsu expect us to believe they thought Horizon would not be used for criminal evidence? In the first part of this series, “A contractual mess”, I explained some of the contractual confus…| James Christie's Blog
Blundering through a fog of confusionThis is the second part of my series explaining how the Post Office and Fujitsu were vague about the purposes of Horizon, specifically the need for the system t…| James Christie's Blog
This will be a series of posts arguing that the Post Office and Fujitsu didn’t understand what they were doing when they commissioned and built Horizon in the late 1990s. Both corporations were hop…| James Christie's Blog
Our two previous posts noted that your development team will never, ever be big enough to catch up with your dreams (pushing us to The Law of Ruthless Prioritization [http://www.mironov.com/4laws1/]) and that all of the profits are in the nth copy (thus The Law of Build| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
(Or How Major Platform Migrations Really Happen) Many companies have replatforming efforts underway. Architectures get old, new kinds of partners or integrations emerge, hard-to-maintain monolithic code gets broken into microservices, acquisitions force integration of dissimilar systems, etc. This is an essential part of the software product business, but fraught with| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Requirements Aren’t Required It is common for companies to draw up a document containing product requirements when building a new solution, especially in Waterfall environments. This sets the tone for what the development team would The post Requirements Aren’t Required appeared first on Productfolio.| Productfolio
How being curious about the unmet user needs can help dashboard designers navigate requests for spreadsheets as data sources, and requests for the ability to export dashboards to Excel| Do Mo(o)re with Data
A volunteer in the Northern Star Council (Minnesota and Wisconsin) has developed a series of three training presentations on advancement for Cubs and Scouts BSA with special needs or disabilities (…| Able Scouts
Attaining licensure and pursuing a career as a physical therapist involves a structured educational journey.| Afghan Embassy
Firefighters: Our Real Life Superheroes Have you ever wished that you magically wake up one day bestowed with super powers to save lives and be a hero? The feeling of saving someone from something that could have otherwise ended their Read More ...| Firefighter Education
Many bugs are implementation errors: there is a mistake in the code that makes it not do what you wanted it to do. For example, you may have accidentally left out the “list is empty” case, or written a nonterminating function. You can identify it as “definitely wrong” for a given input. Most testing, in fact most writing on software correctness, deals primarily with implementation errors. Above that we have specification errors.| Hillel Wayne