It’s one thing to post a dashboard on a web site for each active project, but quite another to be confident that every project team member and its interested management have read and understood its meaning.
Sending an email with the dashboard contents is also not a guaranteed solution. Sometimes, as project leaders, we must go a little further.
In the past, I have recorded video reports explaining each of the metrics we are actively using on each project AND have captured receipt of these video reports when opened by each of the recipients. But even this does not guarantee that each recipient will watch, listen and understand what they are receiving.
What would you suggest and/or what have you used to successfully guarantee that all project team members stay completely informed about each project’s status?
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I hope you think about what I am asking in this video and that you figure out how to apply these ideas to your organizations to improve the quality and sustainabilit of your installed applications.
If you are in a position where you can influence a change in your Application Deployment practice then please ask yourself and your management associates: Your systems work today. But will they be sustainable assets five years from now?
Passwords are essential to your online safety and security. However, they are also fairly easy to hack so that others can steal and mess with your data online. That might be OK if the only things you have placed online are fairly innocuous data, but what if someone were to hack into your checking and savings accounts? That would be generally bad, right?
Watch this video to see how you can reach me so that I can help you protect your information with a few technical steps to monitor and maintain your Online Account Passwords.
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Several years ago, a friend of mine and I decided to create a series of Podcasts to advise people on how to find work. The economy, at that time, was slow and not actively hiring, so we thought it would be a good idea to help folks get prepared, organized, and motivated to move their Job Search forward.
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An Event initiates a Process. The Process collects, manipulates and saves Data including a State setting. Each change in State (including from No State to a State) can be used as an Event.
There are many external Events which occur and trigger their associated Processes within an automated application. As examples:
A sale of a product or service occurs online or in person
A bank teller or an ATM device receives a request to accept a deposit or service a withdrawal
A shipment of goods is initiated or arrives at its destination and is recorded in the appropriate applications
Two Master Processes are always running which monitor their “Event Threshold(s)”:
Calendar Dates and Events:
Week Ends and Endings
Month and Quarter Ends
Annual Ends
Special Event Dates and Timings
Data From State Changes
Which are Events that trigger other Processes
Each of these monitored Events are associated with and will initiate their necessary Processes.
And so the circle goes.
Some sample events include:
Midnite on any date
Midnite on special days like:
End of a Week
End of a Calendar Month
End of a Year
End of a Century
New date matching a Birthday, Anniversary, Renewal dates for Subscriptions, Licenses, or other things expecting a renewal Payment (Rent, Lease, Copyrights, etc.)
Receipt of a Payment from a Customer to a Vendor
Insertion of a Credit or Debit card at a Purchase point
Or at an ATM
When an electronic record of a Customer, Order, Invoice, Shipping Order, or other “master” type data is changed from one state to a “retired” or “archived’ state
When an electronic record of a Customer, Order, Invoice, Shipping Order, or other “master’ type data is changed from a “New” state to a more “Active” state
I believe that using Artificial Intelligence tools and their capabilities will increase for the foreseeable future. I also believe that since it is such a new “science” or capability, we need guidelines and safety measurements super-imposed on this usage so that we have some protection against the mis-use of this powerful and, as yet, uncontrolled capabilities.
As part of my constant interest in learning new things, I subscribe to several newsletters, blogs, podcasts as sources of new information for me to think about. One of these sources is “The Rundown AI” which has been very information for me.
In March of 2024, their newsletter announced the creation / publication of an Artificial Intelligence set of “ground rules” from the European Parliament (EU). Hopefully, The Rundown will not be offended that I republish some of that article here:
Welcome, AI enthusiasts.
The AI revolution just got its first major set of ground rules, courtesy of the EU’s landmark AI Act.
But while the sweeping new legislation aims to reign in the tech’s most dangerous use cases, not everyone is convinced its the right approach. Let’s investigate…
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The Rundown: The European Parliament just passed the landmark Artificial Intelligence Act, establishing the world’s most comprehensive set of regulations for AI tech.
The details:
Newly banned AI apps include biometric and facial recognition on sensitive characteristics, social scoring, and AI that manipulates behavior or exploits vulnerabilities. High-risk AI, such as in infrastructure, education, and employment, will face strict obligations like risk assessment, transparency, and human oversight. The law has drawn criticism from both sides — with companies worrying it stifles competitiveness and watchdogs arguing it doesn’t go far enough. The rules will take effect in stages, with some applying as early as six months after the law enters into enforcement.
Why it matters: The AI Act positions itself as the global standard for regulation, but will it disadvantage EU-based AI companies in the process? Despite the critiques, the act is a big first move — potentially influencing other countries’ AI approaches and altering the trajectory of the industry.
The Rundown AI “Brief”
The trick, I think, is how to effectively and thoroughly apply these guidelines and then report of the progress of its implementation and to respond to the AI world’s compliance to these and newer standards as they are published.
