making things happen programming

... feedback process Trust and making mistakes Never reprimand in real time Trust in yourself (self-reliance) Summary Exercises 13 Making things happen Priorities make things happen Common ordered lists ... in the long history of making things The technologies and skills may change, but many of the core challenges that make engineering difficult remain All things, whether programming languages or ... From the previous edition PHOTO CREDITS SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly Making Things Happen Scott Berkun Editor Mary Treseler Copyright © 2008 Scott Berkun O'Reilly Media SPECIAL...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 07:14

... Contents GDP-Indexed Bonds: Making It Happen The benefits of GDP-indexed bonds Gains for borrowing countries ... Fax: (1-212) 963-4444 e-mail: esa@un.org http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers GDP-Indexed Bonds: Making It Happen Stephany Griffith-Jones and Krishnan Sharma1 The introduction of GDP-indexed bonds could ... render their fiscal policies pro-cyclical These could include countries where GDP-Indexed Bonds: Making It Happen pensions are indexed against GDP growth, such as Italy Moreover, these countries may...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:21

... distinction between risky making and repetitive making. 7 In repetitive making, a mostly predetermined amount of work of a definite sort produces a mostly predictable result In risky making, failure is ... help getting better, but the only way to get better at making things is to make things, to make lots of them, to think about how we are making them, and to realize that to produce something truly ... from making technological artifacts because art seems to require talent, and talent seems to be a gift that some have and others don’t For example, making software seems like repetitive making an...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... What Smart People Do When Dumb Things Happen at Work:Table of Contents Page of 47 What Smart People Do When Dumb Things Happen at Work by Charles E Watson, Ph.D Career Press ... Do When Dumb Things Happen at Work:Table of Contents Page of 47 difficulties through our own shortcomings—our quick tempers, our fat egos, our self-centered actions Yes, dumb things happen, but ... for him to attend to the things that really required his attention file://C:\Users\bkc\AppData\Local\Temp\~hh9378.htm 17/01/2013 What Smart People Do When Dumb Things Happen at Work:Table of Contents...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... References 250 253 254 Making Things and Getting Things Made 255 The Making Things Move Ecosystem Creation ... Understanding Movement and Making Automata (London: G&B Litho Limited, 1998), “If you want to make things move, be sure to spend some time studying how other things move.” • Making things requires parts ... right, follow every step, and everything by the book But once you get used to xiii xiv Making Things Move making things move, it becomes more like cooking After you get the basic recipes down, you...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 22:05

... also applies to the physical world at large For that reason, we need the relief of watching it happen to a duck instead Cartoon Law Amendment A A sharp object will always propel a character upward...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20

... 14/06/05 10:41 Page WATER FOR LIFE MAKING IT HAPPEN CONTENTS Foreword Welcome to the action decade Part Water for life – and for living lifelong 10 Part Making it happen 23 Find out more about the ... 14/06/05 10:45 Page 22 OMS-Water for life-INT 14/06/05 10:45 Page 23 WATER FOR LIFE PART MAKING IT HAPPEN MAKING IT HAPPEN The International Decade for Action Water for Life was proclaimed by the United ... (image of well on cover background) OMS-Water for life-INT 14/06/05 10:41 Page i WATER FOR LIFE MAKING IT HAPPEN OMS-Water for life-INT ii 14/06/05 10:41 DECADE FOR ACTION Page ii 2005–2015 WHO Library...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... dangerous You open it at your peril —Sean Stewart, author of Galveston STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN KELLY LINK Small Beer Press Northampton, MA This is a work of fiction All ... was going to happen, a sort of bees and ants feeling Something was going to happen I taught my classes and came home and went to bed, all week waiting for the thing that was going to happen, and ... of enticing readers between its covers But I not follow that custom when I say that Stranger Things Happen is one of the very best books I have ever read These stories will amaze, provoke, and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20

... www.it-ebooks.info Making Things See 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot Greg Borenstein Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Tokyo www.it-ebooks.info Making Things See ... Making the Point Cloud Move Viewing the Point Cloud in Color Making the Point Cloud Interactive ... your 3D programming chops and your understanding of the Kinect, I’ll point you toward next steps that you can take to take your applications even further We’ll discuss other environments and programming...

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 11:43

... VIII MAKING THINGS TALK www.it-ebooks.info MTT_Chapter00.indd VIII 8/31/07 1:10:57 PM Making Things Talk MAKE: PROJECTS Preface A few years ago, Neil Gershenfeld wrote a smart book called When Things ... Making Things Talk First Edition Tom Igoe BEIJING • CAMBRIDGE • FARNHAM • KÖLN • PARIS • SEBASTOPOL • TAIPEI • TOKYO www.it-ebooks.info MTT_Copyright.indd I 8/30/07 4:35:25 PM Making Things ... gory details of programming, but want to get something done It’s a useful tool for explaining programming ideas because it takes relatively little Processing code to make big things happen, such...

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 11:44

... firm natural laws But every now and then, things happen not contrary to those laws of nature but outside them Things happen which could just as easily have happened differently Even as I write this, ... had happened to him, and to answer his question, “Why me?” “I have to believe,” one friend said, “that everything that happens in life, happens for a purpose Somehow or other, everything that happens ... misfortunes in this life Things happen to them far worse than they deserve—they lose their jobs, they get sick, their children suffer or make them suffer But when it happens, it does not represent...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2014, 09:07

... ERP: Making It Happen The Implementers’ Guide to Success with Enterprise Resource Planning Thomas F Wallace ... overall attention and managerial emphasis Item A is the people, the most important element in making it happen If the people part of the implementation process is managed properly, the people will ... entering a whole new market Breaking through the catch-22, overcoming the people problems, making it happen these are the challenges That’s the bad news The good news is there’s a way to meet...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... WASTERS Nowhere on the Proven Path does one see things like: • Document the current system in detail • Design the new system That’s because these things are time wasters when done as separate activities ... clear what works and what doesn’t The methods that have proven unworkable have been discarded The things that work have been refined, developed, and synthesized into what we call the Proven Path ... to receive some education on ERP as part of the implementation process For ERP to succeed, many things will have to change, including the way that many people their jobs—at all levels in the company...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... business is run Consequently, top management and operating management must be committed to making it happen Without a solid projection of costs and benefits, the necessary degree of dedication ... choose to go after ERP/ES or ERP only, you will have requests for changes to the software In fact, making changes to software packages seems to have risen to the level of a national sport, sort of ... through the major changes required The vision statement serves as a framework for consistent decision making over the life of the project, and can serve as a rallying point for the entire company More...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... doesn’t happen, that part-time project leader/ part-time operating person will often have to spend time on priority number one (running the business) at the expense of priority number two (making ... later in this chapter) to solve these problems • Making decisions, as appropriate, regarding priorities, resource reallocation, and so forth • Making recommendations, when necessary, to the executive ... were followed by the How Not Why era Attention was focused on telling people how to things but not why certain things needed to be done This approach may work in certain parts of the world, but...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... place at these meetings?” Yes, indeed Education is essential, as a means to the goal of making behavior change happen It needs to occur at three levels: • Principles, concepts, and techniques • Application ... Enthusiasm is the visual signal that the change process is happening If that signal isn’t forthcoming, then the change process is probably not happening Stop right there Fix what’s not being done properly ... condition—if success with ERP is considered as optional On the other hand, if the company’s committed to making it work, then it can’t be left up to individuals to decide whether or not they’ll get educated...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... codified, and institutionalized Accounting deals with facts, with what has happened It’s primarily historical When things happen, we record them On the other hand, resource planning deals with the ... numbers, and putting them into the computer What happens to inventory accuracy? It drops What happens to accountability? There’s not much left What happens to the morale of the people in the stockroom? ... what’s actually happening Here again, talk to the operators, the folks who are making the items Virtually every element involves an operator to one degree or another They know what’s happening A...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... Might Happen to Your Inventories Inventory level cutover 236 ERP: M I H Be aware this may happen It’s not illegal, immoral, or fattening It should be anticipated Then, if it doesn’t happen, ... solution to this problem is to recognize ahead of time that it might happen Then, make plans to prevent this inadvertent big bang from happening The alternatives here include running both the old and ... explanation for the difference? Don’t assume that things are okay but, rather, expect they’re not Then, you can have a pleasant surprise if things are in good shape AUDIT/ASSESSMENT II This step...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... company; people are saying things like, “It didn’t work the first time Why should it work now? Let’s not waste our time.” This is typical In a re-implementation, one of the hardest things is to break ... initiatives underway, more opportunities for people not to get on board, more time required to make things happen, and so on The Quick-Slice approach dramatically reduces the size of the effort One can ... can “get one’s arms around” an organization of a few dozen or even a few hundred people, and things can happen quickly Obviously, the first slice would be followed by another and another and another...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 02:20

... of the choices This book is entitled ERP: Making It Happen Your choice is to make sure that the company experiences the maximum benefit of making ERP happen That means using ERP to reach new levels ... Decision -making then can be at the point of need—production level for daily and executive level for long term None of this is easy but making phase III a reality certainly can make it happen Selling ... that making money is bad That’s why this book has a price tag on the dust jacket However, companies can make too much money If margins are too high, there are several bad things that can happen...

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