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S U M M A R Y
DIARY: December 12, 2002 03:13 PM Thursday;
Rod Welch
Mike Poremba submits proposed agenda for meeting.
1...Summary/Objective
2...Agenda for Meeting with Mike Poremba
....Overview
...........Rewrite POIMS and Communication Metrics
...........SDS Progress Since Meeting With Mike on 020522
....Review progress regarding SDS
......................Ease of use may not be the issue Mike has in
......................Ease of learning is a bigger challenge under the
........Mike's Outline Program Nearing Completion
ACTION ITEMS..................
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CONTACTS
0201 - Poremba Consulting
020101 - Mr. Michael Poremba; 415 819 9660
SUBJECTS
SDS Development Interface Inquiry to Improve SDS
Poremba, Mike Interested in Working on SDS Interface Seems Familiar w
Poremba, Mike Meeting to Observe SDS and Discuss Com Metrics
Agenda Requested for Meeting Mike Requests
2706 -
2706 - ..
2707 - Summary/Objective
2708 -
270801 - Follow up ref SDS 50 0068.
270802 -
270803 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Mike submitting a proposed agenda for a
270804 - meeting he suggested in his letter received on 021206, ref SDS 50 0001
270805 - At that time an email to Mike asked for agenda ideas. ref SDS 50 0068
270807 - ..
270808 - A copy went to Gary Johnson for comments, ref DRT 1 00W3, per planning
270809 - on 021206. ref SDS 50 WC6K
270811 - ..
270812 - Submitted an email to Mike proposing a meeting next week to discuss
270813 - his agenda. By that time Gary may be able to submit additional issues
270814 - and/or perspective to make discussion with Mike productive.
270815 -
270816 - [On 021213 meeting scheduled for 021218 1000. ref SDS 52
270817 - 0001
270819 - ..
270820 - [On 021214 Gary submitted comments. ref SDS 53 HN5G
270822 - ..
270823 - [On 021217 1000 meeting Mike discussing SDS implementing
270824 - POIMS and Communication Metrics. ref SDS 54 SF6F
270826 - ..
270827 - Mike's email today is in HTML format; took about 30 minutes to
270828 - organize into a workable instrument, per request on 021206.
270829 - ref SDS 50 DX3H
270831 - ..
270832 - This sets a good baramoter for productivity. As we go forward, can
270833 - work on getting this down to a few minutes or less. That would save a
270834 - lot of time and money.
270835 -
270837 - ..
270838 - Agenda for Meeting with Mike Poremba
270839 -
270840 -
270841 - Overview
270842 -
270843 - 1. Feedback on the analysis I sent to you and Gary What are
270844 - your thoughts on the following:, ref DRT 1 M08K
270846 - ..
270847 - Rewrite POIMS and Communication Metrics
270848 -
270849 - Rod, what's your response to my suggestion of rewriting
270850 - these documents?
270851 -
270852 - Have not seen where Mike has presented this idea. Need
270853 - link to the record showing analysis of objectives and
270854 - work plan??
270855 -
270856 - [On 021214 Gary Johnson support's publishing writing
270857 - to explain SDS and Com Metrics using professional
270858 - authors. ref SDS 53 36GH
270860 - ..
270861 - Gary Johnson proposed on 021119 work on POIMS and NWO.
270862 - ref SDS 46 VP4I
270864 - ..
270865 - This afternoon, John Deneen discussed getting some
270866 - articles written on SDS, which is somewhat in the area
270867 - Mike discusses today. ref SDS 51 QD6K
270869 - ..
270870 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
270871 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
270872 - 3Z9K
270873 -
270875 - ..
270876 - SDS Progress Since Meeting With Mike on 020522
270877 -
270878 -
270879 - 2. Conversation on status of SDS project
270880 -
270881 - Rod, I'd like to hear how things are progressing regarding
270882 - SDS. As you know, I'm interested in what you've come up
270883 - with, and would love to see it advanced beyond your own
270884 - personal use. ref DRT 1 056F
270886 - ..
270887 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
270888 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
270889 - 3Z9K
270891 - ..
270892 - a. On 020729 met with Pat Lincoln and agreed on draft
270893 - language for endorsement letter by SRI. Finalization of
270894 - the draft is pending completion by Rod. ref SDS 33 4K6G
270896 - ..
270897 - b. Prior to meeting with Pat, on 020608 the manager of IBM's
270898 - KM program, Dave Snowden, reported in an article that KM
270899 - has failed, ref SDS 30 ZN6I, further showing there is no
270900 - competition for the SDS program.
270902 - ..
270903 - c. For example, in August new information demonstrated a
270904 - powerful KM dilemma. Key aspects of KM design proferred
270905 - over the past few years have been abandoned by KM
270906 - experts....
270908 - ..
270909 - KM experts fail to perform KM.. 020812, ref SDS 34 TV9K
270910 - Linking abandoned.............. 020820, ref SDS 35 UV6G
270911 - Accuracy abandoned............. 020820, ref SDS 36 V66I
270912 - Analysis advocated but not
270913 - performed...................... 020822, ref SDS 37 IO7G
270914 - Metadata (organize) abandoned.. 021031, ref SDS 42 VX4J
270916 - ..
270917 - This record shows that KM remains a secret of SDS under
270918 - the record on 000425, ref SDS 15 0480, and for the reasons
270919 - on 010924. ref SDS 24 JS6G
270921 - ..
270922 - d. POIMS explains that converting information into knowledge
270923 - takes "intelligence" comprised of organization, analysis,
270924 - alignment, summary and feedback. ref OF 2 0367 People
270925 - have tried in various ways to support organization,
270926 - analysis and alignment individually, but now abandon
270927 - these ingredients as unnecessary overkill, because each
270928 - by itself makes no appreciable increase in productivity.
270929 - Only an integrated design makes any of the ingredients
270930 - effective, because they are complementary. This is hard
270931 - to discover, especially since two (2) more ingredients
270932 - are needed that so far have not been addressed. The
270933 - result is an innovation loop causing people to return to
270934 - the comfort of information management that is well
270935 - understood from experience over the past two millennia.
270937 - ..
270938 - Lack of competition is an advantage. No competition,
270939 - however, presents credibility issues, and where many have
270940 - tried with great effort and expectation, illustrated by
270941 - the meeting at SRI on 000324, ref SDS 14 4877, the
270942 - disappointment of failure causes feelings of doubt and
270943 - anger that prevent acceptance of successful initiatives,
270944 - like SDS, e.g., on 010426, ref SDS 22 657O, and earlier
270945 - on 001126. ref SDS 20 T63N In other words, without
270946 - competitors, frustration, skepticism, envy and despair,
270947 - poisen the wells of desire to improve, and weaken
270948 - emotional strength to investigate and pilot test SDS. As
270949 - with all things, the binary structure of competition has
270950 - plusses and minuses.
270952 - ..
270953 - e. Lack of competition under para b - d should strengthen
270954 - SRI's endorsement of SDS because powerful dilemmas seem
270955 - to prevent discovering a KM design by others, observed by
270956 - Eric Armstrong on 001122, ref SDS 19 0001 If there is to
270957 - be progress, SDS is the only real choice for the period
270958 - ahead. This proposition has taken a few months to
270959 - capture and understand, while working on other tasks, per
270960 - below, ref SDS 0 WT36, but, now we are nearing completion
270961 - and so are prepared to propose a stronger endorsement by
270962 - SRI.
270964 - ..
270965 - f. Learned on 020820 that people are giving up on accuracy
270966 - because linking for an audit trail to organizational
270967 - memory takes too much time using Microsoft technology
270968 - that everybody likes. ref SDS 35 O1QQ This experience
270969 - causes a mental block that prevents people from using
270970 - other tools to save time and money. On 020905 contacted
270971 - engineer with DCMA and did an experiment to prove people
270972 - can learn to use good management in a few seconds, and
270973 - this experience enables discovery that SDS makes good
270974 - management fast and easy. ref SDS 39 DH6G
270976 - ..
270977 - g. Learned that good theory and good explanation alone do
270978 - not help people overcome ignorance, fear and denial that
270979 - good management saves time and money. Since human mental
270980 - biolody creates an overwhelming tendency to get by using
270981 - bad management, explained in POIMS, ref OF 2 8536, only
270982 - direct personal experience and the weight of experience
270983 - by others can help people adopt a new way of working to
270984 - save time and money, under the rule that experience is
270985 - the best teacher, noted by Einstein, reviewed on 991124.
270986 - ref SDS 13 3066 Experience by others associated with
270987 - links to theory helps educate people about potential for
270988 - improvement, and removes the stigma of being out of step
270989 - with the surrounding culture, described as arcane on
270990 - 020823, ref SDS 38 NS9M, and funny and alien on 990713.
270991 - ref SDS 12 2150
270993 - ..
270994 - An example, is Mike's comment during the meeting on
270995 - 020522 that only Rod is doing Knowledge Management, and
270996 - this causes others to give up, ref SDS 28 ZC6G, cited on
270997 - 020608. ref SDS 30 QV5G
270999 - ..
271000 - h. As a result, asked Gary Johnson to try SDS in order to
271001 - determine if other people can save time and money using
271002 - good management practice. On 020924 Gary received the
271003 - SDS program. ref SDS 40 0001 After ironing out some
271004 - installation issues, e.g., on 021109, ref SDS 44 YX7I,
271005 - Gary has made good progress learning and using SDS.
271007 - ..
271008 - Review on 021126 shows work on adding links between daily
271009 - working information, and discussion of KM, SDS and Com
271010 - Metrics linked to explanations on implementing POIMS,
271011 - NWO, and other publications, ref SDS 48 WZQY, per
271012 - planning on 011210 for growing a culture of knowledge
271013 - that fosters new attitudes. ref SDS 26 516O
271015 - ..
271016 - i. On 021125 began considering phase II of Gary becoming
271017 - involved with SDS that will consider over the next few
271018 - weeks developing ideas for product development. Target
271019 - date for submission is 030110. ref SDS 47 YF35
271021 - ..
271022 - j. During this period when Gary has been learning SDS, he
271023 - has encouraged important improvements, and contributed on
271024 - getting things done, e.g., on 021027, ref SDS 41 0001,
271025 - and on 021119, ref SDS 45 0001 This improved progress on
271026 - program development, but delayed analysis of the record
271027 - on KM dilemma's that is needed to finalize the
271028 - endorsement from SRI, per above, ref SDS 0 WS98, because
271029 - of limited time, as Mike notes below. ref SDS 0 7M7R
271031 - ..
271032 - k. Successful experience with Gary learning and using SDS
271033 - has led to efforts for others to try.
271035 - ..
271036 - John Deneen was here today about installing SDS for a
271037 - similar 3 month evaluation, aimed at supporting
271038 - marketing. John's interest in SDS is based on work with
271039 - the OHS/DKR effort. ref SDS 51 4LO4
271041 - ..
271042 - Bill DeHart will get SDS installed this weekend on
271043 - 021214. Bill works at PG&E, and was favorably impressed
271044 - by experience using SDS work product, as shown in his
271045 - memo on 941229. ref DRP 2 0001
271047 - ..
271048 - l. Getting more people using SDS and putting records on the
271049 - Internet demonstrate that anyone can use good management
271050 - to save time and money. This changes attitudes that
271051 - resist improvement, noted by Gary Johnson on 020618.
271052 - ref SDS 31 MU6H Mike asked about the number of people
271053 - using SDS during the meeting on 020522. ref SDS 28 01QR
271054 -
271055 - [On 021228 SDS records saved time and money; request
271056 - to keep up good work. ref SDS 55 JI6O
271058 - ..
271059 - m. Getting more people linking explanations of SDS and
271060 - anlaysis of KM to theory of Com Metrics in POIMS, NWO,
271061 - Typical Day Scenario and other publications on SDS, makes
271062 - ideas more familiar on adding intelligence to managemnt
271063 - by integrating time and information to grow knowledge. As
271064 - explained above, ref SDS 0 WS5N, writing with links
271065 - between work product and underlying theory that enables
271066 - the work product educates people through repeated
271067 - exposure to a new way of working, explained on 001219.
271068 - ref SDS 21 4W4L
271070 - ..
271071 - n. Should finalize endorsement from SRI in next few weeks,
271072 - and if Pat Lincoln is still favorable to endorsement,
271073 - then will use this to attract interest of others.
271075 - ..
271076 - o. Want to obtain endorsement from Tom Benero a contracting
271077 - officer for the US government, who worked with SDS at
271078 - USACE in 1996, and recently agreed to consider
271079 - endorsement, which may be helpful in securing an order.
271081 - ..
271082 - 3. Brief report on the status of my own web application for
271083 - collaborative writing, ref DRT 1 00WS
271085 - ..
271086 - To catch you up on what I've accomplished in the past
271087 - half-year, and some key lessons that I've learned along the
271088 - way.
271089 -
271091 - ..
271092 - Review progress regarding SDS
271093 -
271094 - 1. Accomplishments to date
271095 -
271096 - Results of Gary's analysis and trial, ref DRT 1 5P4U
271097 -
271098 - See comments above. ref SDS 0 SH3F
271100 - ..
271101 - 2. Current strategy
271102 -
271103 - a. Strategy for re-implementing SDS, ref DRT 1 0586
271104 -
271105 - What kind of strategy is most appealing?
271107 - ..
271108 - 1. Re-implement SDS as a Windows or Java application
271109 - Targeted towards individual end-users.
271110 -
271111 - See discussion on Gary's review, above.
271112 - ref SDS 0 7L44
271113 -
271114 - See discussion of targeting end users, above.
271115 - ref SDS 0 WT4J
271117 - ..
271118 - On 020531 Mike commented on difficulty creating
271119 - SDS as a Java application because requirements
271120 - for responsiveness to leverage thinking would be
271121 - difficult to accomplish using web-applications
271122 - with records on the Internet. ref SDS 29 5W9J
271124 - ..
271125 - [On 021214 Gary Johnson comments that Java may
271126 - not an effective method to implement SDS.
271127 - ref SDS 53 LN5G
271129 - ..
271130 - [On 040505 case study options for programming
271131 - language to develop SDS Windows application
271132 - cites Mike's suggestion to consider Java.
271133 - ref SDS 57 418N
271135 - ..
271136 - [On 060211 1417 case study evaluating using
271137 - Java for Knowledege Management, ref SDS 58
271138 - YY5K, too slow for to upgrade SDS. ref SDS 58
271139 - OZ39
271141 - ..
271142 - [On 060211 Open Iris Java web-application SRI
271143 - CALO project sponsored by DARPA, ref SDS 58
271144 - YY5K, seems conflicting with mistaken worry on
271145 - 030527 about loss of confidentiality using SDS
271146 - records not produced on the Internet,
271147 - ref SDS 56 ZU3G; pilot test indicates Iris too
271148 - slow for supporting daily work. ref SDS 58
271149 - 055L
271151 - ..
271152 - [On 081104 Morris started new development
271153 - project create editor required for SDS to run
271154 - on Intel 64-bit processors; starting with Java
271155 - enables programmers to gain experience toward
271156 - determining viability, and need to upgrade the
271157 - current assembly code. ref SDS 59 2W6I
271159 - ..
271160 - 2. Integrate key functionality into more sophisticated
271161 - tools For example, Knownspace Helium ref DRT 1 1696
271162 -
271163 - Need analysis showing Knownspace capabilities
271164 - and ability to support SDS functions.
271166 - ..
271167 - 3. Focus on selling management consulting services
271168 -
271169 - What about SDS? ref DRT 1 00YW
271170 -
271171 - Meeting with John Deneen today focused on plans
271172 - for selling SDS product and consulting services,
271173 - ref SDS 51 4J5I,
271175 - ..
271176 - Efforts to get others using SDS and producing
271177 - records makes it harder for customers to avoid
271178 - opportunity to save time and money. Selling to
271179 - individuals often turns on quirky issues
271180 - day-to-day, but fostering a culture of knowledge
271181 - builds inertia that may one day explode into a
271182 - new market that demands technology for saving
271183 - time and money. Our goal is to continue
271184 - improving ability to save time and money.
271186 - ..
271187 - b. Work plan
271188 -
271189 - What are your next steps? ref DRT 1 06ZH
271190 -
271191 - 1. There are so many ideas in SDS that are worthy of
271192 - re-implementing elsewhere Ease-of-use will be
271193 - important.
271195 - ..
271196 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
271197 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
271198 - 3Z9K
271200 - ..
271201 - Ease of use may not be the issue Mike has in
271202 - mind. Integrated design and flexible structure
271203 - of SDS make good management fast and easy, as
271204 - explained in POIMS, ref OF 2 M17I, but this will
271205 - never be as easy as bad management, as reported
271206 - on 000920. ref SDS 17 T33H SDS is more fun than
271207 - bad management, as explained in 001004,
271208 - ref SDS 18 6N9G, but requires learning and using
271209 - SDS over a period of time to experience deferred
271210 - rewards of knowledge.
271212 - ..
271213 - Ease of learning is a bigger challenge under the
271214 - record on 890809, ref SDS 1 6162, and on 920215.
271215 - ref SDS 2 5820 Later on 960721 people are afraid
271216 - about learning to press buttons that make saving
271217 - time and money fast and easy. ref SDS 7 W474
271218 - People have a biological drive for "effectance"
271219 - in order to survive, see on 950710. ref SDS 6
271220 - 0738 Investing time to learn delays getting
271221 - things done in the moment hoping to be more
271222 - effective after learning new skills. Learning
271223 - however is frustrating when performed through
271224 - trial and error. People prefer to avoid the
271225 - trauma of not being effective by continuing to
271226 - rely, instead, on doing familiar things in
271227 - familiar ways that are effective in some degree,
271228 - noted by Grove, reviewed on 980307. ref SDS 8
271229 - 3740 Convincing people to voluntarily experience
271230 - frustration from giving up familiar ways to
271231 - acquire new skills for pressing buttons, requires
271232 - proof of reward, or direction from management,
271233 - noted by Grove also on 980307, ref SDS 9 1660,
271234 - under Drucker's analysis of theory X and thery Y
271235 - methods to change attitudes, reviewed on 931130.
271236 - ref SDS 5 9677 Gary Johnson notes this is a
271237 - continuing challenge for SDS, as it is for
271238 - Microsoft under Bill Gates' announcement on
271239 - 021108 that Microsoft plans to integrate commands
271240 - to improve productvitity, like SDS does.
271241 - ref SDS 43 EFBE Winning customers for saving
271242 - time and money requires evidence that tools and
271243 - skills improve the work. Higher rewards for
271244 - better management, especially at the level of
271245 - thinking, remembering and communicating, are not
271246 - well established in the liturature. USACE's
271247 - report on 971007 provides some evidence of higher
271248 - rewards using SDS. ref DRP 4 0001 SDS records on
271249 - the Internet provide proof that better work can
271250 - be created consistently, which some people
271251 - recognize in varying degrees, shown on 010907,
271252 - ref SDS 23 0P8P Consulting and/or a professional
271253 - role shows the model of a pilot to "fly" SDS,
271254 - explained in NWO, ref OF 4 6369, that enables
271255 - transformation without everyone having to learn
271256 - to push new buttoms all at once.
271258 - ..
271259 - This means there are specific things to work on
271260 - to influence transformation...
271261 -
271262 - 1. Make SDS easier to learn within existing
271263 - attitudes.
271264 -
271265 - The record on 990530 shows how; it explains
271266 - linking in SDS has always been fast and
271267 - easy by pushing buttons. But learning to
271268 - push buttons in the right sequence took
271269 - trial and error. This was frustrating so
271270 - people decided linking is overkill, per
271271 - above. ref SDS 0 7M3J On 990530 steps for
271272 - linking were consolidated into a single
271273 - step of pressing Enter or double clicking.
271274 - ref SDS 11 EI50 That is fast and easy to
271275 - do and to learn, and so changes attitudes
271276 - about using good management to improve
271277 - accuracy, which is the purpose of links.
271279 - ..
271280 - 2. Demonstrate many people can produce SDS
271281 - records so that working intelligently does
271282 - not seem beyond reach, and so does not
271283 - incite attitudes that good management is
271284 - overkill.
271286 - ..
271287 - 3. Present evidence of rewards from saving
271288 - time and money that change attitudes.
271290 - ..
271291 - 4. Do assignments to increase the evidence
271292 - showing rewards that change attitudes.
271294 - ..
271295 - 5. Provide Com Metrics services that enable
271296 - people to discover benefits without having
271297 - to learn to push new buttons, which grows
271298 - desire to exercise the power of knowledege
271299 - that changes attitudes about learning.
271300 -
271302 - ..
271303 - 2. Porting SDS to another environment is, essentially,
271304 - a rewrite There's no such thing as an application
271305 - "port" that involves changing programming
271306 - environments. These are called application
271307 - "rewrites". ref DRT 1 170F
271308 -
271309 - See planning above. ref SDS 0 7L44
271311 - ..
271312 - 3. A rewrite should progress in small steps Modern
271313 - software development usually involves continuous
271314 - incremental improvement through a series of many
271315 - low-risk goals, rather than large ambitious
271316 - projects. ref DRT 1 P1QP
271317 -
271318 - One initial goal is to update the C version of
271319 - Medit to support SDS to use memory above DOS
271320 - limit of 640K.
271322 - ..
271323 - Once that is accomplished, progress may be
271324 - possible on the user interface without complete
271325 - re-write. Experience working with SDS helps
271326 - people understand what to re-write.
271328 - ..
271329 - 4. No one person can do it themselves You're talking
271330 - about a multi-person project. ref DRT 1 0QQU
271331 -
271332 - Good point.
271334 - ..
271335 - 5. Recouping on investment is challenging Covering the
271336 - costs of creating such software applications is
271337 - challenging. Profiting is even more difficult.
271338 - ref DRT 1 01QX
271339 -
271340 - Launching disruptive technology is often slow and
271341 - challenging for developers, and more so for
271342 - established manufacturers driven by the need to
271343 - generate revenue to produce what customers say
271344 - they want, and so must ignore investment to
271345 - discover what customers need. When customers
271346 - eventually get around to wanting what they need,
271347 - the established order is disrupted. Small firms
271348 - able to adjust grow, and large firms driven by
271349 - cultural inertia of past success decline, as
271350 - reported on 990527. ref SDS 10 1890 and
271351 - ref SDS 10 4077 An example is the record on
271352 - 990713. ref SDS 12 2150
271354 - ..
271355 - 6. Few people have such a practical vision of
271356 - information management. ref DRT 1 01RR
271358 - ..
271359 - [On 021217 Mike concerned that others might "steal" or take
271360 - advantage of ideas in SDS without crediting Welch. ref SDS 54
271361 - 3Z9K
271362 -
271363 - But how to exploit it? ref DRT 1 01RR
271364 -
271365 - IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and many other excellent
271366 - companies have a powerful vision for information
271367 - management, explained in the record on 931008.
271368 - ref SDS 3 2526 POIMS explains success advancing
271369 - the vision of information management has created
271370 - a new world order that compresses time and
271371 - distance, ref OF 2 0307, which necessarily grows
271372 - demand for solving the growing mountain of
271373 - problems caused by information management that
271374 - overwhelm human capacity to cope in a more
271375 - complex world.
271377 - ..
271378 - The vision of Com Metrics is to advance beyond
271379 - information management by adding intelligence to
271380 - grow knowledge through a concept of investing
271381 - intellectual capital. ref OF 2 1101 POIMS
271382 - describes a spreadsheet for knowledge and
271383 - Knowledge Space. ref OF 2 034J Information in
271384 - this vision is an ingredient that drives demand
271385 - for SDS work product, called the "record,"
271386 - "intelligence," "knowledge," "ideas," see POIMS.
271387 - ref OF 2 2300
271389 - ..
271390 - Exploiting knowledge management requires having a
271391 - solution available when demand rises to the level
271392 - of intolerance for bumbling, loss, conflict,
271393 - crisis and calamity under the status quo using
271394 - information management. At this time, evidence
271395 - reported on 000425 indicates SDS is the only
271396 - solution available, ref SDS 15 0480, and is likely
271397 - to remain so for reasons on 010924. ref SDS 24
271398 - JS6G Making the SDS solution fast and easy to
271399 - learn lowers the bar of frustration people must
271400 - experience in order to try a new way of working,
271401 - per point 1. ref SDS 0 7M3J In any case, these
271402 - are opposing curves, rising and descending. When
271403 - rising demand from the failure of information
271404 - management crosses the falling level of effort to
271405 - learn SDS, sales should rise to exploit the
271406 - vision of Com Metrics.
271407 -
271408 -
271409 -
271410 -
271411 -
271412 -
271413 -
2715 -
SUBJECTS
Outline Program Eric Consulting to Assist Mike Poremba Develop Outlin
Outline Program Venture Failed 20 Years Ago
4204 -
420501 - ..
420502 - Mike's Outline Program Nearing Completion
420503 -
420504 - Follow up ref SDS 50 TG92.
420505 -
420506 - Mike continues...
420507 -
420508 - Developing a web-based collaborative writing tool Since we last
420509 - met, I've made good progress on my web site for collaborative
420510 - writing. ref DRT 1 5Q6P
420512 - ..
420513 - 1. Accomplishments to date
420514 -
420515 - a. Web-based outline editor
420516 -
420517 - Works in IE/Windows
420518 -
420519 - Is the email received today an example of work
420520 - product?
420522 - ..
420523 - How will Mike's Outline feature fare in relation to
420524 - 90% of Microsoft features under Windows and IE that
420525 - users evidently ignore, according to Bill Gates,
420526 - interviewed on 021108? ref SDS 43 EFBE
420528 - ..
420529 - b. Backend database for storing outlines
420530 -
420531 - Relational database for storing managed content.
420532 - ref DRT 1 628U
420533 -
420534 - Is there an example of "managed" content and/or an
420535 - explanation that shows what people do to create
420536 - managed content, and how this saves time and money?
420538 - ..
420539 - c. Basic user registration and authentication system
420540 -
420541 - Allows user to create an account, log into secure web
420542 - site, and maintain account. ref DRT 1 01TX
420543 -
420544 - Is this the way weblogs work?
420546 - ..
420547 - d. Secure spaces for collaborating on outlines
420548 -
420549 - Backend support for secure shared workspaces where users
420550 - can collaborate on writings. ref DRT 1 01US
420551 -
420552 - How is outlined content integrated with other
420553 - content?
420555 - ..
420556 - e. User home page
420557 -
420558 - A user's index of their content. ref DRT 1 01UX
420559 -
420560 - Is this like metadata reviewed recently on 021031?
420561 - ref SDS 42 VX4J
420563 - ..
420564 - 2. Current work plan
420565 -
420566 - a. Business strategy
420567 -
420568 - 1. Meet with Eric Armstrong for his perspective
420569 -
420570 - Eric has offered to serve as a sounding board for
420571 - ideas on how I should direct my focus to exploit the
420572 - technology I've developed. ref DRT 1 01VR
420573 -
420574 - Eric has important experience developing outline
420575 - products, reported on 000517. ref SDS 16 N25M
420577 - ..
420578 - Discussed similar issues with Mike on 020522.
420579 - ref SDS 28 XM9F
420581 - ..
420582 - 2. Gain user base Goal is to get to 25 users who
420583 - have logged in 25 times. Product can then be called
420584 - successful, and worthy of following through on a
420585 - business plan. Until then, it's all talk.
420587 - ..
420588 - b. Development
420589 -
420590 - 1. Improve usability of user home page, ref DRT 1 01WT
420591 -
420592 - 2. Finish tools for the creation and management of user
420593 - workspaces, ref DRT 1 12XY
420595 - ..
420596 - 3. Improve collaboration features, ref DRT 1 01XQ
420597 -
420598 - Are there examples of work product that improve
420599 - collaboration, as discussed in NWO? ref OF 4 4077
420601 - ..
420602 - 4. Enhance existing editor to work in other browsers
420603 - IE/Mac and Mozilla support. ref DRT 1 01XS
420604 - ..
420605 - 5. Add functionality for threaded discussions.
420606 - ref DRT 1 MU5L
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