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Data’s After Life

12 Sunday Nov 2017

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When we are born, a birth certificate is usually created with our Name, Date, Weight, Length, Parents names, location, etc..  It is also at this point that our Health Record begins tracking injections, infections, operations, procedures, prescriptions, reactions…

When / If we join or are entered into some religious group, records are kept of the group name, location, and other pertinent information.  This “membership” will also keep track of events specific to the organization: Bat Mitzvah, Baptism, Weddings, Death notices.

As we proceed through our education, data is collected about where we attended, what courses we took, what grades we achieved and what disciplinary actions might have been taken / necessary.  And there are records for the costs and debts we incur.  Those Student Loan records will follow us forever, whenever, however we try to lose them.

And, again, during our education, we take / make notes on paper or electronically and we retain some of these notes for studying in preparation to take exams where we get Grades and notices from our Instructors about how to improve or maintain our level of achievement

Once we graduate from schools or leave before we might have graduated, we join other communities: The Military, Religious Orders, Jobs of one kind of another.  These events are when the real interesting data events start to unfurl.

Employment records keep track of Titles, Achievements, Income, Employments Benefits and Costs, Taxes (Paid or Owed), Hirings, Firings, Performance Assessments, Remediation Steps taken or suggested, …

Self employment must keep track of Expense, Income, Tax Payments, Deductions and regulatory tax filing whether we are employed or self employed.

While employed we create info in files or on paper reflecting the content and intent of our positions.  Some of these records are stored on our employers’ media since they are “works for hire” and others are retained in files (paper or electronic) in our own locations: file cabinets, folders, baskets, trash bins or hard drives / cloud drives.

Some of us write books, recipes, instructions, blogs, articles, clippings, critiques, editorials.  These materials are retained, published, sold, held for posterity, hoarded.

There are hard drives and manila folders all over the world that contain treasures and trash containing the data of our lives.  There is value and potential wasted time in the content of these files.  But, who uses these values?  What happens to all that learning, discovery, insight, … if no one has access to all this data?

What will happen to your data when you no longer have access to it?

What is the After Life or our Data?  Who could benefit from our information?  Who will benefit from yours once you have no more need of it?

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The Path To Inkc Profile

30 Saturday Sep 2017

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  • How many ways would you be willing to collect income:
    • Full Time Employment with Salary and Benefits?
    • Part Time Employment paid by the Hour or Piece of Work?
    • Signed Master Service Agreement(s) for predefined services, rate and duration?
    • Signed Purchase Order(s) for your product offering(s)?
    • Incorporation of your own new company and the creation of new jobs for yourself and others?
    • Royalty / Investment Income?
  • Do you still think that you only need ONE Source of Income to survive in our current world?

I don’t expect that many people could manage all of these incomes sources (or others), but wouldn’t it be nice if you could maintain two or more of these?  And, IF one of your new income sources were to “dry up” for a time, wouldn’t it be nice that you could have the others to keep you going?

If the answers to these questions intrigue you, reach out to me for an initial free review: William (Bill) Gutches at 610.662.5658 or whendoyoustoplooking@gmail.com .

My Social Media Web Presence techniques and Business Planning experiences coupled with your passion for your products and/or services have the potential to get you in a position where two or more of these income sources can be sustained.  Please let me know if you are interested in talking to me about these possibilities.

William (Bill) Gutches ► Social Media ☑ Web and Blog Content ☑ Income Search Coach ☑Business Planning Coach ☑ Contact Info: ☛ whendoyoustoplooking@gmail.com  ☛  610.662.5658

Testing Centric Life Cycle

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

Posted by bgbgbgbg in alternate, Attribute, compliance, compliant, Contract Career, Data, effective, efficient, engineering, Event, manage, management, Object, opinions, Optional, predictabable, principles, project, re-useable, Relationship, repeatable, risk, risk management, Scope, software, Standards, Statement of Work, structured, Test, Testing, Transaction, Valid, Value

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Could there be such a thing as a Testing Centric Life Cycle?

What would it have to look like to be Testing Centric?  Wouldn’t we have to ask questions of each Deliverable to prove that it somehow supports what we believe our end goal to be not knowing all that they might be in the earlier stages?  How would we construct these questions to ask of our Life Cycle Deliverables so that the answers would be good indications of our reasons to proceed?

Imagine if we were to create a Statement of Work for a project intended to build a new business application for an organization.  If we wanted to TEST this SOW, what questions would we ask of it that could help us understand that its content was supportive of our end goals?

It might be possible for us to start asking questions about the Scope described in this Statement of Work:

  1. Does the scope indicate where our input data will be coming from?
  2. Does the scope explain how our product / application will affect the data?
  3. Does it show how the affected data will provide additional value over our inputs?
  4. Can we tell from the scope what external events and/or operators our application will have to respond to?
  5. Can we predict how we will have to maintain the data collected, modified, reported, used to accomplish the intended functions of our product / application?
  6. Is it Orthogonal?  (Not a trick question; read other portions of this blog!)

If we accept the notion that each Deliverable in the path of our project plan must answer questions that relate to its completeness and its alignment with previous deliverables, then the Test Centric Life Cycle Model can be strongly directed by the premise behind Orthogonality:

  • All modeling perspectives MUST be reflected in all Other Modeling perspectives so that when each component and its related model components are removed, nothing remains in any of the models
  • Model perspectives should address, at least, the following disciplines or viewpoints:
    • Event Diagram
    • Process Diagram
    • Data Model Diagram
    • State Transition Diagram

Do you think, dear reader, that this thread of discussion should continue or be dropped?

Please Respond / Comment on this post OR Reply to me at whendoyoustoplooking@gmail.com

Thanx, bgbg

Orthogonal Dependencies

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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  • When an Event occurs that your application must respond to
    • a Process is performed
      • Each Process takes the data from an Event and Stores it in a Data Store
        • Where it’s State is established
  • There are Data States that require your application responds to
    • By Performing a Process
      • Which collects the related Data and makes changes
        • Where the State of the Data records are changed
  • And there are Business Transactions that require your application to
    • Perform a Process
      • That gather relevant Data and makes updates to these Data
        • Where the State of the Data Records are changed

Build a set of models that leave no Event, State, or Transaction without response and you have built a Complete Solution.

Watch this space: I’m writing AGAIN!!!

15 Sunday Sep 2013

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I just want you all to know that I have started writing again. Recently, I have spent a lot of time NOT writing (did have some other things to take care of, and still do), but it appears I have the bug again!

So, I want to let all of you, my readers, know that I am starting again with new materials AND I also want you to know that I have several blogs I am writing on:

Project Management Handbook: http://www.projectmanagementhandbook.wordpress.com

BG Opinions: http://www.opinionsarefree.wordpress.com

Sixty Somethin: http://www.sixtysomethin.wordpress.com

Please check these out and I hope that you continue to enjoy reading, and please send me your comments or suggestions at whendoyoustoplooking@gmail.com or some of my other email addresses for these blogs.

Thanx, bgbg

Wordle me: Business Analyst

23 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by bgbgbgbg in compliance, compliant, contract, effective, efficient, engineering, manage, management, opinions, Optional, principles, project, recover, recovery, Relationship, repeatable, risk, risk management, Social, software, Standards, Statement of Work, structured, Test, Testing, Transaction

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