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Tag Archives: quality
The Doublecheckers
Exhausted after fifteen hours of preparing a CD product that had to ship that day, one last little error was found, and fixed. “It’s good to go!” said the person who fixed it. It was 11 p.m. on a Friday … Continue reading
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Thanksgiving, Football, and Web Development
Thanksgiving reminds me of many things for which I am grateful. Thanksgiving is a time to count blessings, and a time to use football analogies for software projects. As the stuffing settles, and the games are on, my thoughts naturally … Continue reading
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Tagged people, planning, quality, software testing, websites
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Road Rallies & Software Testing
In the current phase of projects at work, a lot of people around me have been traveling, either from elsewhere to here, or from here to other places around the globe. Also a lot of others are taking summer vacation … Continue reading
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Semantic Web
Semantic Web means XML-tagging content by type, uniformly, using the terms that people actually use to search for that content. One industry well suited to Semantic Web is pharmaceuticals.
Kanban
Kanban is a method in industry and software that uses cards or other signals to show when something is needed and what is needed. In industry, it refers to inventory and stock flow. So when you’re low on an item … Continue reading
Workmanship
When something works out well, as planned, no glitches, it’s nice to point it out because it seems to happen less and less often.