Synesthesia

Summary notes from chapter 3 of Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

Joseph Cothrel says ' the many want to talk to the few, but the few only want to talk among themselves. I think that's one thing that blogs manage very nicely, enabling interaction at a very high level among the few, without shutting out the ability of the many to read and even comment.'

George Lakoff on the frames of reference that were used in the media coverage of Arnold Schwartzenegger's election victory.

Developing Spike Hall's model of an online tool for collaborative production of knowledge.

Martin Fowler says 'As it turns out, I can get pretty cynical about enterprise architecture. This cynicism comes from what seems to be the common life-cycle of enterprise architecture initiatives. Usually they begin in a blaze of glory and attention as the IT group launches a major initiative that will be bring synergy, reuse, and all the other benefits that can come by breaking down the stovepipes of application islands (and other suitable analogies). Two or three years later, not much has been done and the enterprise architecture group isn't getting their phone calls returned. A year or two after that and the initiative quietly dies, but soon enough another one starts and the boom and bust cycle begins again.'

Dave Pollard thinks 'that for pragmatic reasons KM should be organizationally part of IT, rather than a separate department or a part of HR or Sales & Marketing'

Anne Galloway is Doing Things With Words 'But mostly I like thinking about the relationships between words, contexts and who we can - and cannot - be.'

Notes from creativity workshop, links to collections of links on creativity and evidence that maybe the old saying "you need to be a little mad to be creative" has some truth

Summary notes from chapter 2 of Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

*Pixelcharmer explains how to build a faceted classification scheme in MT

James Bullock explains for non-software project managers...

Summary notes from chapter 1 of Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck

Here are four useful illustrations of Lean Joe Ely has come across in the past week.

HeadCloud is a Napster-style service, where people connect to a central hub, send a list of the thoughts they want to share, and search the database of other people's thoughts to see who they want to connect to. It's called HeadCloud after the original vision - being able to walk down the street and see little clouds above people's heads that showed what they were thinking.

Series of posts by Jack Vinson summarising Bloggingworks workshops about blogging in business