[Nitro] Stroustrup speaks -- words to consider

[* William]

Aloha, Alas it is so.
 
Naturally "most" companies implement several of these activities with a memo
and never actually do something.  Or as so often happens water down
engineering with "cherry picking" side-stepping the difficult bits.  
 
Pointy haired folk (by definition) don't do extreme things like "Get your
best people into Six Sigma.  Then you can give them [stock] options."  (Jack
Welch)
 
The connection with Stroustrup is that he's saying the same thing I'm saying
now.  'Management' makes good processes and good tools like C++ or Ruby or
Six Sigma, or TQM, yes even Democracy work.  
 
I once read a paper form the Netherlands by a fellow called Jootsen, don't
recall when it was written (apologies to Jootsen).  When I too some
percentages from the numbers it turned out that about 60% of improvement
projects did not complete or not succeed.
 
I'm not surprised that ".. companies that used six sigma have trailed the
S&P".  Some of you may have been to training courses.  Only to return to
work and have people "resist" doing thing differently, implementing the very
training your employer just paid too much money for.  May be not.  
 
In the case of something like TQM, Six Sigma, or BPR, etc you need to look
at the places that really committed to the changes.  Say like Japan, 3M, GE,
Harley Davison.  If I want to win a race, do I consider all the runners and
what they do?  Or is it better to look at the top three first and beat their
results?!
 
    Wikipedia ... HYPERLINK
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_sigma"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_sig
ma
 
Recent reports
 
    HYPERLINK
"BLOCKED::http://ct.bnet.com/clicks?t=20548487-0a60b3c4a458fa58d234fc1bee5c5
150-bf&s=5&fs=0"Six Sigma Still Pays Off At Motorola
        It may surprise those who have come to know Motorola for its cool
cell 
        phones, but the company's more lasting contribution to the world is 
        something decidedly more wonkish: the quality-improvement process 
        called Six Sigma.

Source: HYPERLINK
"BLOCKED::http://ct.bnet.com/clicks?t=20548488-0a60b3c4a458fa58d234fc1bee5c5
150-bf&s=5&fs=0"BusinessWeek Online

I've seen some very cool stuff written in C++, and about 9 x more rubbish
code.  I think the Dilbert quote can apply as well to C++ or anti-biotics if
you look at the press on super-bugs these days.
 
Cheers all,
 
   Will.
 
   _____  

From: Dimitri Aivaliotis [mailto:aglarond at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:57
To: william.full.moon at gmail.com; General discussion about Nitro
Subject: Re: [Nitro] FW: Stroustrup speaks -- words to consider
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On 11/30/06, * William <HYPERLINK
"mailto:william.full.moon at gmail.com"william.full.moon at gmail.com> wrote: 


I was reading one of those things about six sigma ... in lay terms six sigma
looks for 99.99% correctness.  



HYPERLINK
"http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20061126.html"six
sigma[1], you say?

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

- Dimitri

[1] HYPERLINK
"http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20061126.html"http://
www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20061126.html



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