Dilbert's take on employee engagement

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The value of methods in an agile world

Interesting definition of an agile method from this article.

A method is the way a team works to accomplish its goals. It describes how responsibilities are identified and assigned, what techniques are applied, and how success criteria are identified and achieved.

Documented methods enable an organization to:

• Define clear responsibilities and critical sequences of events
  As teams become highly distributed, it becomes important to have information available at all times and from all places in some documented form. There isn't time to wait for an explanation, and we can't afford to be confused about what needs to be done, by whom, and when.
• Capture and promote the organization's best practices
  To stay competitive, organizations must use industry-standard best practices and learn from their mistakes and their successes.
• Baseline and measure the effect of changes
  If you do not establish a baseline method, what do you improve? Documentation helps you implement the agile principle of continuous improvement based on retrospectives.
• Address compliance and audits
  CMMi, DO-178B, ITIL, COBIT, SOX, for example. Compliance can be a challenge. Documenting the method is typically necessary to achieve compliance and as evidence to demonstrate compliance.
• Quickly start projects with a method that fits project characteristics

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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

           Sequential Read :    16.521 MB/s

          Sequential Write :    10.884 MB/s

         Random Read 512KB :    15.926 MB/s

        Random Write 512KB :     0.841 MB/s

    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :     2.411 MB/s [   588.5 IOPS]

   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :     0.005 MB/s [     1.3 IOPS]

   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :     2.529 MB/s [   617.4 IOPS]

  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :     0.007 MB/s [     1.8 IOPS]

  Test : 1000 MB [E: 0.0% (0.0/14.9 GB)] (x5)

  Date : 2012/07/19 12:57:10

    OS : Windows 7  SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)