Monday, July 9, 2018

Friday, January 12, 2018

Methodology - Outcome Driven Development

Methodology - Outcome Driven Development

This outline is based off my understanding of the article
“Done is dead – welcome to outcome-driven development” found at:
https://sdtimes.com/agile/done-dead-welcome-outcome-driven-development/
  1. How is work measured traditionally? By output?
  2. How is success defined conventionally? Success is commonly defined as shipping a product, feature or bug fix to customers.
  3. How many companies are thinking into better practices?
  4. How far behind are conventional approaches?
  5. To ship more frequently Agile is adopted in modern thinking. However disruptors are delivering updates in one day based on analytics.
  6. Outcome-driven development defines “done” as delivering measurable value, not simply completing user stories. However shipping or delivering doesn’t realize impact to the user or customer.
  7. Classic agile is: plan, build, deploy, listen and repeat.
  8. Often it is pervasive culture that presents a bigger hurdle to success than technology.
  9. Instead of measuring outputs of effort (hours worked, user stories shipped, etc.), the outcome-driven development team sets goals measured in results: reduced churn, improved Apdex score, more users returning each day, etc.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Healthcare Acronyms related to Medical Records - EMR, EHR, PHR and PHI

Healthcare Acronyms related to Medical Records - EMR, EHR, PHR and PHI

What is EMR?

EMR is an acronym for Electronic Medical Record which by common definition stands for the digitization of a patient record within a health care system. However it is also likely to be an indication of “EMR System” or the software application that is the primary portal for digital health records.

EHR is considered a super set of detail over the EMR that is transportable outside any clinical entity to another clinical entity.

PHR is a personal health record that can be maintained by the patient.

PHI stands for protected health information which is legally protected information pertaining to health of an individual.

In terms of software architecture within the business of healthcare an EMR system constitutes a critical effort of operation that most likely involves the entire enterprise topology.

In terms of ALM - application lifecycle management within EMR program the underlying data schema for the related application topology is dynamic to that state of EMR and PHI, most likely with PHR and increasingly likely with PHR.

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Sunday, October 8, 2017

An introduction to “Blockchain, blueprint for a new economy” and author Melanie Swan

An introduction to “Blockchain, blueprint for a new economy” and author Melanie Swan

  1. Overview Editorial
    1. Although Melanie’s book was criticized by the technical side she appears to be a wide ranging technological futurist philosopher attempting to break in and provide voice to many edge technologies beyond just cybercurrency.
    2. The world has room and need for the kind of voice that Melanie provides which is a contribution into the conversation of technology from the sociological aspect of the technology tapestry.
  2. Author
    1. Melanie Swan, Founder of the Institute for Blockchain Studies
  3. Resources
  4. Reviews
    1. GoodReads
      1. There's some good overview and some good ideas in this book, but much of it is just a catalog of existing projects, and much of the rest is speculation (some of it outlandish). The book is brought back to Earth in the end with a sober look at the problems that Bitcoin faces ... but it's ultimately just another list.
    2. Amazon
      1. This is not a technical book on Blockchain or Bitcoin, but it is an excellent summary of the current technology supporting cryptocurrencies and an inspiring collection of ideas for how Blockchain could support a multiplicity of applications, in both the short term and the long run.
      2. Copiously sourced with an extensive index. Puny appendices on basic crypto, but again that's not the point of this book; for that see Satoshi white papers and relevant RFCs.
  5. Book
    1. O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 8, 2015)
    2. Amazon
    3. GoodReads
    4. WorldCat
    5. Google Books

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

T-Commerce

T-Commerce

      1. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Print-Poster-Vintage-Racing-Cars-Race-Car-Model-3-17x22-inch-/231284544572
  1. Case study
    1. http://www.amzur.com/case-studies/creating-next-generation-t-commerce-solutions-at-icuetv/

Digital Game Development

Digital Game Development

  1. Seems like the space wars of software development.
  2. Recruiters

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Finding Scott Guthrie

Where is Scott Guthrie now?





Scott Guthrie was a hugely successful product development manager who became a voice of Microsoft Web development. He seemed to reach widely and bring in everyone who was looking for leadership in leaning into the Microsoft web development products. Since he was promoted where is his social activity?

His blogs were excellent and become so popular over the years outlining nuts and bolts level of the Microsoft direction for web development. The post would be lengthy covering the forward step of the product in detail to quicken implementation. He would outline the approach at a high level however brought in the cadence of all the little challenging details and then returned to facilitate all manner of questions from the great variety of operational machine configurations.

Occasionally over the years I would retune into his blogs and they seemed to move somewhere new each time I looked for them. However this time I was unable to find a current blog.

Blogs at that time were still popular and worked well for his feature tours. However a survey for his current social effect looks like the social style for an executive vice president is all about twitter.

From a Bing search:


Missing for over a year


Same blog destination


His Facebook account has one note from earlier this year.


He is very active retweeting and up to date on Twitter


Linkedin


Wikipedia


Microsoft executive page


The current Microsoft executive team