The engineer’s job is to make things that work. This can be quite complicated, and it requires both education and practice in certain modes of thinking. It requires a design, a model, testing and measurement of that model, then usually some constraints related to costs. Patience, humility, and a certain level of creativity are allContinue reading “Engineering Values and Virtue”
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Getting Things Done in Real Time
Published August 18, 2018 in Warp & Woof Getting Things Done in Real Time What I Learned About SDLC, and What I Didn’t William Sundwick In the early ‘80s, I resolved to prepare myself for a second career, beyond librarianship. I enrolled in a 36-hour master’s degree program at American University which allegedly would qualifyContinue reading “Getting Things Done in Real Time”