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A collection of 46 issues

New Book Review: "Lean Integration"

New book review for Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility, by John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Addison-Wesley, 2010: A text published several years ago by the same authors, "Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology", initially captured my interest in this recently released book. Although

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 2

Notes taken for posterity during the second of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any

Certified ScrumMaster Training: Day 1

Notes taken for posterity during the first of two days of a Certified ScrumMaster Training course that some of my colleagues and I attended this week. These notes are only intended to call out some areas that I found of particular interest during training, and are not intended in any

New Book Review: "The Lean Startup"

New book review for The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries, Crown Business, 2011: Copy (uncorrected proof) provided by Amazon. Good introduction to the application of Lean principles to the startup effort. As with its Lean ancestry in

Past Book Review (November 16, 2008): "Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Medical Errors and Medical Narcissism, by John D. Banja, Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005: Published almost four years ago at the time of this review, it is rather interesting that other readers have not yet shared their thoughts

New Book Review: "Project Decisions"

New book review for Project Decisions: The Art and Science, by Lev Virine and Michael Trumper, Management Concepts, 2008: Reading this text was a follow-up by this reviewer on reading "Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number?", by Patrick Leach, and "How to Measure

RSNA 2010: Quality Improvement? - MRI Workflow

As posted recently, I had the opportunity to spend the day at the RSNA 2010 trade show at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago the Sunday following Thanksgiving Day. Rather than discuss statistical control as in my recent post, since the exhibit being discussed here offered no control charts, I present

RSNA 2010: Quality Improvement? - MRI Wait Time

This past Sunday I had the opportunity to spend the day at the RSNA 2010 trade show event at McCormick Place in downtown Chicago. Following my attendance at RSNA 2009, I posted some observations that I made about a p-chart (a type of statistical quality control chart) on display at

New Book Review: "Controlling Software Projects"

New book review for Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement & Estimation, by Tom DeMarco, Yourdon Press, 1982: This text was initially noted by this reviewer while reading a white paper written by Johanna Rothman that a colleague recently passed on to me entitled "Are We There Yet?: Creating Project

New Book Review: "Amplifying Your Effectiveness"

New book review for Amplifying Your Effectiveness: Collected Essays, edited by Gerald M. Weinberg, James Bach, and Naomi Karten, Dorset House Publishing, 2000: This book is a collection of "pre-cedings" written by 17 software consultants for a conference of the same name. In the introduction, Weinberg explains the