What do all three of those things have in common? Here’s a hint: it’s me!
That’s right, this weekend I will be at SQL Saturday #53 in Kansas City. I am especially looking forward to the BBQ crawl on Friday afternoon followed by the Royals game that night. I’ll pick up a KC cap while at [...]
Six Sigma
Root Cause Analysis – Asking Why?
I have two children, ages six and five (Happy Birthday to the boy today, BTW), and they went through a phase where they would ask “why?” for just about everything imaginable. They either grew out of this phase or grew tired of my circular reasoning which resulted in conversations such as:
“Papa, why [whatever]?”
“I don’t know.”
“Why?”
“Because [...]
SQL Server and NULL Values
I seemed to have struck a minor chord with my hatred for database triggers. I had very few comments, but a handful of emails and exchanged even more tweets on the subject. But one thing was made clear to me and that is people wanted to hear about why I disdain NULL values.
Fortunately for me I [...]
DMAIC Is For Everyone
Last week I was in a Six Sigma Black Belt training class. The program itself is three weeks long, spread over four months. I have already attended the Green Belt training, so many of the terms and acronyms used were already familiar to me. With the expanded format we were able to spend far more [...]
Acronyms
Be very careful when using acronyms, especially when sending text messages. If you are heading to Six Sigma training, it would be unwise to shorten that to “SS Training”. Trust me, people will get the wrong idea.
Group Dynamics
I came across another post on a Six Sigma blog that I found to be quite interesting and applicable to most. The author writes about an interesting group exercise taking place during a class she was teaching. The exercise was about personality preferences with regards to team management, and you can read about it here.
This [...]