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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