Project Requirement Gathering Templates

Project requirements should drive the project plan. A good template to do so is here.

Organizing Tons of Information

Of particular use in requirements gathering:

Concept Mapping

Mind Mapping

Simple Online Bookkeeping

And it's free.

Leadership by Bob Stevens

• Engage fully.
• Listen actively.
• Mobilize quickly.
• Seize the initiative.
• Adapt with agility.
• Persevere in the face of adversity.
• Celebrate the victories with those who have earned them.

Circumstances demand it.
Employees deserve it.

Medical Records

From ComputerWorld.com

The medical data that might have saved me several hours of terror sat unused. It was unavailable to doctors outside of my primary care clinic, except by mail or fax...

Standards that could have helped solve these problems have been available since 1991. But 17 years later, the industry still doesn't follow them. US health care providers and systems vendors haven't agreed on any unique patient identification codes, universal schemas or global XML data models.

Moreover, they have no real incentives to pursue them. Providers see no direct economic benefit from adopting interoperable electronic health records. For vendors, open standards threaten services revenue and lower barriers to competition.

I believe there should be a free-market way for insurance companies to force this to happen.

Good Employee Advice

Your manager doesn't want to hear about your problems, they want to hear your solutions.

Lanyard Innovation

On my first day of work, I was given one of these lanyards to keep my ID's on.
After the first week, the alligator clip unbuttoned itself several times and my ID's fell to the ground. Luckily, I was at my desk and they were easily found.

I also had a magnetic strip ID for door accesses that I couldn't wear around my neck because it needs to be reachable to the door control panel. So I removed the unreliable alligator clip and combinded a retractable keychain with the above lanyard:

And I added all of my ID's around the metal keyring. Now all of my ID's are secure on the metal keyring (no much chance they'll fall off now) and my lanyard is now easily extendable for the magnetic stripped ID's for door control.