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There's a long and rather rambling (but entertaining) talk called Managers are from mars, employees are from venus[^] that shows how modern "scientific management" practices evolved and how they are completely wrong for a knowledge business.
In my opinion, rather than trying to organise your companies as if they were a production line through which projects flow with each employee doing their defined link in the chain, it is probably a better idea to see your company as a sports team - each with specialisms but all concentrating on the single objective and self organising/self managing and adapting to changing circumstances.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: each with specialisms but all concentrating on the single objective and self organising/self managing and adapting to changing circumstances.
Amen!
Marc
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It takes a great burglar to make a great locksmith 
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Starting from the 1980s, we have all known how to handle relational data – simply put it in a Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS) and use SQL to work with the data. For the past few years however, our industry has seen an increasing trend towards the usage of NoSQL databases, where data just isn’t stored like in relational databases. Why not both?
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Fallacy #1 - there is actually a choice to be made.
Fallacy #2 -
Kent Sharkey wrote: our industry has seen an increasing trend towards the usage of NoSQL databases
Just because something is "trending" doesn't mean we all have to behave like lemurs lemmings and dive after it.
Marc
modified 6-Nov-14 8:48am.
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Marc Clifton wrote: lemurs
Lemmings? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Lemmings?
OMG, I can't believe I made that blunder. Yes, lemmings.
Marc
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I can't believe no one was CDO enough to call you on it 10 hours ago.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: I can't believe no one was CDO enough to call you on it 10 hours ago.
That surprised me too. Maybe we need a short refresher course on the difference between lemurs[^] and lemmings[^]. 
Marc
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Actually, as Lemmings have largely been misrepresented (especially by Walt Disney) neither behave in a "Lemming-like" manner.
The Wiki article you linked to has good info on this. Walt wasn't exactly an early David Attenborough in his approach to wildlife "documentaries".
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I would definetely make an article about 
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Oracle’s licensing practices have created a “hostile” relationship “filled with deep rooted mistrust” between the vendor and its customers, according to a survey that looked at users’ business interactions with the company. "She lies and says she still loves him, can't find a better man"
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That's news?
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Well, that someone actually did the study, yeah. The findings? Completely known for a while, I think.
TTFN - Kent
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Xamarin wants to enable students building the next big thing in mobile to bring their ideas to life on the best mobile platform on the market. "Something, something, Dark Side"
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But they're gonna still pay for it, right? -_- So what makes a difference?
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Microsoft’s evolving Groups feature aims to improve collaboration, likely at the expense of similar Office 365 options. As long as that one-stop doesn't stop at SharePoint
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Kent Sharkey wrote: aims to improve collaboration
Oh good Bob. Architecture Astronauts again?! 
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Powered by Microsoft technology, new bedside terminals securely hooked up to the hospitals backend servers provide doctors with at-a-glance critical patient information, making data entry easier and quickly accessible. Must. not. make. BSOD joke.
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Blue screen of adverse outcomes as they say in NHS-speak.
I can actually see a use for non-touch (Kinnect and voice) interfaces because one of the biggest problems in hospitals is infection control and one of the biggest headaches to that is "personal tech".
(I did once write some software for medical use - in which capacity I created this fantastic error message : (of Flickr)[^]
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Scalar? I'd think it was more of a vector (or maybe it's the space betwixt).
TTFN - Kent
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That was rather cheeky!
ROTFLMAO
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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But, what kind of hospital is there when we're sick of Microsoft?
(other than the insanity ward, I s'pose...)
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Someone at Microsoft must be crying after that one (and the earlier one about the NFL commentators). So much for visible promotions. Time to go back to crazy dancing commercials[^].
TTFN - Kent
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