over-praised

Heard of 'oversexed'? I'm 'overpraised'. Just got this new manager who praises, praises, praises. It's great getting all this praise, but now I'm awfully disappointed when it's not there.

I'm such a child . . .

CMM implementation

I've been browsing the MIT site again (see Ontalogical argument from an earlier post). Today, among other things, I located this set of slides that may help in the work our group is doing. We're working on CMMI, but lotsa stuff for CMM translates nearly transparently. On page 12 it talks about how long it takes to implement CMM. I need to study it more, and I might look up the whole SEI presentation on the SEI site, but it might be a good sanity check for our group.

careful . . .

There's a risk one takes when having a blog. Blogs are so very spontaneous, and generally present very opinionated opinions. Because the author "lets her hair down" when writing a blog, it is possible that employment status could be put at risk.

Here's an article about it: the article
Here's one woman's story about being fired because of her blog: the life-story
Here's a blog on blogging: the blogging blog

quality management system

So I'm looking around for tools for process management and process quality. The company I work for does some work for Boeing, so I went browsing around on their public website for info. I found the following: Boeing Quality Management System Requirements for Suppliers Actually, what I'd been looking for is the tool they use for managing projects. I believe I found it when I saw they link to: CDG's On-Demand Information Manager