Working Up

Working Up in Project Management, Systems Engineering, Technology, and Writing

Working Up header image 4

Entries from October 2019

Job and Life

October 31st, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Some thoughts on a balance among job and life. It is my job, not my entire life. But it IS my job. When at my job I should give it everything I have for that place and time. Do my job. Live my life. Both are possible.

[Read more →]

Tags: Jobs · Life

A Successful Experiment

October 28th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Good tests and experiments provide useful information. Sometimes the information isn’t what we want to hear, but we need to keep the two separate. In France recently, tests were performed to learn if roadways could generate electrical energy from the sun. They learned that roadways were not a good place for solar […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Experiment · Information · Research · Science · Testing

Scientists or Technicians?

October 24th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips It can be a sobering question, but one that we should address. Person A: Do you want to hire a scientist or a technician? Person B: A scientist, of course. Person A: But the job description lists a lot of tools, software and otherwise. Person B: Yes, of course. The person needs […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Concepts · Employment · Jobs · Science · Technology · Tools

Automation and Time to Think

October 21st, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There are many things we can do to reduce the time required to complete tasks. Is that always a good thing? If we do a task each day, let’s find a way to automate it. Surely we can write a little piece of software that will do it for us at the […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Thinking · Time · Tools

Cost, Schedule, Performance

October 17th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips There are other words, but there are three basic things to consider in projects and project management, so let’s review these basics. Time goes on. We have new methods and methodologies (let’s toss in a couple of extra syllables to trick in unknowing into thinking that we are thinking), but there are […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Calendar · Concepts · Management · Risk · Scope

Do $omething U$eful In$tead

October 14th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Instead of paying fines to “the Treasury,” how about we do something useful instead? Facebook recently paid a $5Billion fine for violations of this or that. Lots of fussing about the “pain” felt by Facebook and the pain felt by those who were violated in this violation. Let us consider, for a […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Accountability · America · Government

The Hybrid Cloud: Forward to the Past

October 10th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We reinvent the past and give it a new name. IBM is pushing into the cloud computing business. They are “behind” the competition, but have hopes of making ground and money with “hybrid” technologies. Let’s consider this idea of hybrid cloud. I trust the cloud provider to keep my stuff reliably and […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Computing · History · Technology

The Future will be Different (???)

October 7th, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Change is much easier said than done. We don’t have to let the past determine the future, but otherwise requires change. Consider myself; I can change my future and make it different from my past Consider others. What makes me believe that others will change? That they will behave differently in the […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Adults · Change · Choose · Goals

A STEM Fable

October 3rd, 2019 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips A group of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) folks sit at a table and dream. This is a fable. Don’t take it seriously folks. One day in the cafeteria at a college, a group of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) persons gathered at a table near the patio. (Actually, it was a […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Data Science · Fable