Today was a busy day. Work in the morning, and some homework schprinkled in - writing requirements and evaluating risks for a “Theater Missile System” software acquisition program that looks a lot like the ATACMS. (Reader’s Digest version of software acquisition? It’s hard. It will take longer than you thought it would, and cost a great deal more. Testing is important. And so on.)
Took a really cool brief from the CEO of a Silicon Valley company called “Acuitis,” a seven-year’s survivor start up that’s got some really cool AI-assisted tutoring technology on offer. Has Great Potential.
And after that? Well, we played golf. There’s an aviation O-6 Commander’s convention in town - yesterday the highlight speaker was Thomas P. Barnett, and his pitch is a subject I intend to spend some time on¬† here once I gain access to my notes - and this afternoon’s team building session was conducted on the playing fields of Admiral Baker.
So as for your purposeful blogging, regrets but I have none.
Cool pic though!
7 responses so far ↓
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Steeljaw Scribe
// Mar 15, 2007 at 12:17 am
Lex:
Looking forward to your posting re. Barnett. Curious to see if his pitch was similar to the one he gave to a strategy forum a little while back at CNA…
- SJS
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Zane
// Mar 15, 2007 at 2:56 am
Jeez, I just endured an hour and a half of Barnett’s relentless self-promotion tour, courtesy of my doting four-star boss. Some valid points, some good ideas, and a whole lot of hope masquerading as a plan.
Go to it, Lex.
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V5
// Mar 15, 2007 at 3:07 am
Re; “So as for your purposeful blogging…”
Well, in my book, Mil-Pron is ALWAYS purposeful blogging. I don’t think even Playboy has had a spread with such beautiful quadruplets. *GRIN*
V5
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Kris, in New England
// Mar 15, 2007 at 4:19 am
Why have any regrets when you can post such great plan pr0n. Good start to my day here on the best coast…
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Kevin
// Mar 15, 2007 at 8:30 am
Most importantly, did you play to your handicap?
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lex
// Mar 15, 2007 at 8:44 am
Actually, even better! Of course, it was a four-man scramble, so…
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Chap
// Mar 16, 2007 at 6:54 pm
If you need a good back channel expert on software development, I know of one. He’s the guy who helped me make the software guys here wince the second time when I asked if they knew what ITIL was. (The first time is when I ask them what HCI requirements they have, and what expertise was used to define how the information is displayed.)
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