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		<title>How About Defect Tracking With Expert Systems?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I discussed an architecture for defect tracking tools which would separate the concepts of symptoms and causes, thus allowing the tool to more closely resemble how problems manifest in real software and how engineering typically approach those problems. I mentioned the need for such a tool to link to a scientific [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=159&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is the AIX real time kernel not real time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a minor quibble, but why is the AIX real time kernel called that? It&#8217;s not real time at all. To enable this feature, you must alter some bosboot settings, reboot the machine and set the RT_MPC environment variable. Its function consists of using on-demand scheduling with a global run queue. That is, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=157&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To Make Defect Trackers Better</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I discussed how the defect tracking tool with which I’m familiar don’t work well with approaching problems scientifically.  A part of the problem is organization for test results, which I may deal with in another entry, but I think the larger issue is that the terms “defect” or “bug” confound several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=143&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Need A Futurist on Your Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It should be obvious that most companies need to be aware of changing trends in technology and society.  From there it&#8217;s not a big leap to say that most companies would benefit from someone who is not only monitoring the new stuff coming out of the pipeline, but thinking deeply about what has yet to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=135&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could Video Games Accumulate Institutional Intelligence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 23:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As knowledge workers, we march to the constant drum beat of never ending change.  Few people in the intellectual disciplines know this quite as well as technology grunts like myself.  As a result, training always consumes a certain percentage of my time, and  I&#8217;ve been on both sides of the equation.  I find myself in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=119&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conservation of Process, or What Congress Could Learn from Software Engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 20:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>candidfolly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time there&#8217;s a disaster, politicians vow to ensure that it will never happen again so that our children will not have to experience our pain.  We have to look no further than the reaction in the United States and other countries to the financial fubar of 2008.  When law makers only look at regulations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=114&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arbitrary Taxonomies and the Illusion of Precision (Pt 3)</title>
		<link>http://candidfolly.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/arbitrary-taxonomies-and-the-illusion-of-precision-pt-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 22:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Part One and Part Two of this blog post, which has now become an essay, I talked about how the books Getting Things Done and The Thinker&#8217;s Toolkit inspired me to do more with less, intellectually.  Although the train of thought meandered a bit through dales and valleys, my main point was that we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=105&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arbitrary Taxonomies and The Illusion of Precision (Pt 2)</title>
		<link>http://candidfolly.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/arbitrary-taxonomies-and-the-illusion-of-precision-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my first post on this subject, I made a fuss about how we fool ourselves into thinking we&#8217;ve made imprecise things precise by assigning decimal scores without numerical data and attempting to rank in order more objects than we can even think about at once.  The rant want was inspired by some insights I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=98&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arbitrary Taxonomies and The Illusion of Precision (Pt 1)</title>
		<link>http://candidfolly.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/arbitrary-taxonomies-and-the-illusion-of-precision-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 13:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often amazed at how the insights I mine from books suffer from an embarrassing lack of sophistication (my own, not the books&#8217;).  I recently completed Getting Things Done, a popular productivity self-help book and reading assignment for a management class I took.  The best thing about most business books is that their titles don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=88&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defect Tracking Tools Sometimes Inhibit the Scientific Method</title>
		<link>http://candidfolly.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/defect-tracking-tools-sometimes-inhibit-the-scientific-method/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most defect tracking tools are not made for investigating defects.  They are essential for cataloguing the solution to a problem and  track its integration into the code base.  This helps managers review proposed changes, track defect density by various categories, monitor employee workload, and report to their keepers what all of these bugs are going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=candidfolly.wordpress.com&amp;blog=913524&amp;post=85&amp;subd=candidfolly&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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