Feeling a bit Cinderella-ish today, because my ’short session’ proposal for the OzIA 2009 conference has been accepted and I’m off to Sydney in early October.
Yippee!
The 30-minute session is called “Look what they’ve done to my song, Ma” and it’s about the different perspectives of project and operational teams.
Here’s the pitch:
It was a good project, [...]
As I ponder the manyseveral challenges of a current project — which aims to convert “80 per cent of all our forms into machine-readable format” — this Wondermark cartoon reminds me that forms are only one small part of any business process or transaction.
Similarly, the Dilbert strip for 21 December 2008 has a particular resonance [...]
In about six weeks the Information Futures Commission will pack its bags, fold its tents and slink quietly into the night.
In our diamond-shaped process diagram, we are accelerating towards the pointy bit.
Next time I use this shape to represent a project process, I try to show that the rate of activity increases as you move [...]
M’colleague Michael asked this week whether the Information Futures Commission has identified any recent-ish equivalents to itself at other universities.
A related question has come up several times in the last couple of months. When we ask a senior stakeholder for an opinion about what issues the Commission should tackle, the response is often,”Well, what are [...]
Mark started it by asking, “What’s the Perth equivalent of Melbournite or Sydneysider? Would it be Perthian? Perthan?” Several dictionaries later, and after consulting her relations, WA-raised Sally replied, “Perthite.”
But it was too late. “Perthian” had already entered Mark’s personal lexicon.
As the project progresses, we have captured interesting or silly words and phrases on our [...]