Monthly Archive for September, 2004

Model Storming

My conversation with a co-worker regarding an article about model storming that was on a list that another co-worker sent out. Read from the bottom up.

(Edited for clarity)

From: Dave Barcelona
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:58 AM
To: David Vo
Subject: RE: Software Development Magazine, Oct 2004

your bantam mind just can’t comprehend. it’s okay. there are voluminous plebians such as yourself.

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From: David Vo
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:55 AM
To: Dave Barcelona
Subject: RE: Software Development Magazine, Oct 2004

This is crazy talk. What you said does not make any sense!

Peace,
David
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From: Dave Barcelona
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:27 AM
To: David Vo
Subject: RE: Software Development Magazine, Oct 2004

that’s where your nonsymetrical intuition originates, my comrad. if you could only surmise the monumental and confounding importance of circumventional platelets and vestubiles, you would dexterously conclude that superannuated herbivores undoubtedly covet homogenius relationships.

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From: David Vo
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:20 AM
To: Dave Barcelona
Subject: RE: Software Development Magazine, Oct 2004

I am not sure how dynamic tension, a work of enhancing muscle growth, influenced by a species not like our own (lions), has anything to do with productivity in management. Unless, you are referring to using physical force to reach your endgame.

Peace,
David

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From: Dave Barcelona
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:14 AM
To: David Vo
Subject: FW: Software Development Magazine, Oct 2004

i’d have to disagree with the premise that model storming is the best kept secret regarding critical tools usage. and using conflict to beef up management approach? pshaw. if everyone would take a lesson from charles atlas’s work on dynamic tension, one would realize that productivity in management is only achieved with ergonomic facilitators and fastidious oscillators.

The Tipping Point – Part 2
I actually finished the book last night so this is going off memory 100%. Today’s topic is about negative events in society that tip because they are inspired by current events. Researchers did a bunch of work to see if there is any connection between the number of similar crimes in an area increased after a major event occured. I never thought of this connection, but it’s a pretty logical conclusion if you think about it.

Well guess what they found? That there was a clear correlation. On days that there are single car (read: suicide) accidents, the number of single car accidents increased many times. When school shootings made the news, that year, Columbine copycats shot up their classmates all over the country.

Basically, the theory is that people who are going to comit these acts want to do so anyway but they are cowards. The moment they see someone else do it, all of a sudden it is sort of like getting permission. You might want to cut in line but you are afraid to. But if your friends all do it, it’s like you are party of a club. A club of line-cutters. Same goes with suicide, murder, etc.

Discuss.