- Gordon Brown facing crisis as Labour MPs head for the lifeboats | Politics | The Guardian
In case you thought any of the remorse coming from the House of Commons was genuine, or that lessons really have been learnt, think again. MPs still don't understand that feathering their nests is wrong wrong wrong: "the Guardian has learned that at least 52 MPs have formally approached Downing Street to be given places in the upper house." They can't honestly think they deserve it. Can they? (politics guardian labour_party peerages )
- The Barefoot Doctor, live online
An example from the archives (October 2003) of hostile (and really rather amusing) questioning… this time with engagement from the subject. (guardian public_relations complementary_medicine )
- The PR lessons from Neal's Yard Remedies public debate U-turn | Environment | guardian.co.uk
If you don't participate in the debate, others will set the agenda around you. As happened once when Neal's Yard Remedies reversed a decision to participate in an online Q&A, and a second time when that reversal turned into a news story in its own right. (guardian homeopathy public_relations complementary_medicine )
- Software Engineering: Report on a conference sponsored by the Nato Science Committee, 1968
Report on a 1968 conference on failures in software development. (software_in_practice software_failure system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
- Factory concepts and practices in software development (Open Library)
Published in 1989 at MIT: "This paper reviews the introduction of factory concepts and practices, based on tools and methods from the evolving field of software engineering, at major software producers [...]. The paper emphasizes that the difficulty of of the technology, shortages of skilled engineers, and large-scale projects have encouraged producers to become more systematic or factory-like in managing a series of projects, even though some characteristics of the technology and the industry have made software seem difficult to control and more suitable to a loosely structured project-centered or craft approach to development." (software_development software_in_practice management project_management )
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