Sunday, November 25, 2007

Values

The base of our doing, we should have some high prior values, otherwise we have no scale we can measure our self.
Here the list of values I think are very important:
  • honesty
  • respect
  • integrity
  • loyalty
  • trust
  • ...
But we should not forget stuff like
  • humor
  • kindness
  • ...
I am still working on this list, so it is still not final, but I just like to give the reader and some for me very important people some impressions :)
This should come all from the heart!

Objectives

Yesterday I discussed my last post "The Human Factor" with some friends and one question came up.
What is the objective of the principle?
Well to be honest I am not 100% sure yet. There are some quotes which may help to understand.

The journey is the reward.
I like this quote very much, because I think I didn't get yet the complete picture. I am even not sure to get a complete picture even in my life, so the first part will give at least an overview of the major things. First part? Yes :) ... there are so many topics, I think to give a complete picture I need more the one part, but the first goal is the first part :).
And other answer I gave on this question is more for the philosophic part of the readers.
The objective is to find the question on the answer 42. :)

Saturday, November 24, 2007

The Human Factor

In the last weeks I was very busy I changed several thinks in my live, some cleanups in my flat, much work and my private goal moved a bit.

You may be interested how... well let's say it like this, a very beautiful woman entered my life. Yesterday I had one of my best day in my life and I am just so thankful to have such a beautiful day. I am now pretty sure "love" is one answer of the question of the meaning of life and there is one great quote in the movie: City of Angles (1998):
Seth: I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.
In my case more "One smile, one look into her blue eyes, on single touch and one moment see here happy ...". So my feelings are at the moment up side down .. but well ... I realized, build up a relationship take time, situations are often more complicated and you can not change to world in just one day.

So yes I lost a bit the track on writing here but I my spare time on waiting ... I can detail more my principle. :)

I finished in may this an company internal course for project management and one where we learned even thinks like how to communicate, team building, motivations, social feedback and so on. One very important result for me was the human factor!

We are all humans, humans work on projects and so the most important factor in a project are the humans. But I seems the world has not realized this.

Why I think that? Just take a took into the "Chaos Report" of "The Standish Group" the top three "The most important aspect of the research is discovering why projects fail." are :
  1. User Involvement
  2. Executive Management Support
  3. Clear Statement of Requirements
And this is the result of a survey 386 of responds across several segments of the industry and sizes of companies.

So I couldn't find the human factor of those people who do the project they only mention the users.

I think this is one of the major problem why projects and all kind of groups (even relationships) can fail.

They just ignore more or less, at least partly: "The Human Factor".

So this is one of the key topics of my principle.

In one of my next posts I will add other key topics and afterwards refine them with more details (e.g. love or more general feelings is one part of the human factor).

New Blog...

what I just realize ... I forgot to mention here ... I open a new Blog for tech stuff.

So in future watch "The Zehrer Tech View" for all news there

So my OpenID project will be "maintained" on this site too. :)