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The work on organizations can be sometimes a completely mess. I’m working on an initiative to turn this “mess” into a more organized and efficient delivery. The basic approach we are following is: To have a clear, complete and detailed organizational chart. Understand what are the governance rules defined by contract with the customer. Define … Read more
I have discovered this page after digging into other concepts. The story goes like this. The banks in Spain classifies the customer with respect your FinScore, that goes from 0 to 900. Fintonic helps you to understand your Finscore and understand how it fits into the market, and it offers you specific products aligned with … Read more
Expectancy theory proposes an individual will behave or act in a certain way because they are motivated to select a specific behavior over other behaviors due to what they expect the result of that selected behavior will be. Expectancy theory has three components: Expectancy: effort → performance (E→P) Instrumentality: performance → outcome (P→O) Valence: V(R) … Read more
Last year we did the ride from Philadelphia to Atlantic City, this year we repeated. The weather this time was better and we completed the distance at 13.30. We stopped a lot and we were talking to so much people during the whole journey. So when we arrived to Atlantic City, we were in better … Read more
After have read The Undoing Project I was investigating about some of the books published by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Finally I found this essay named “Thinking, Fast and Slow”. This psychology essay goes chapter by chapter decomposing the different ways the mind works, doing it in plain English. Chapters are short and concentrated … Read more
I’m engaged on a team where rapid interventions are required to fulfill a specific goal. Basically these interventions are set when an escalation comes from senior customer stakeholder or there are signals of contract breach. The typical cycle of these interventions are composed by a 12 weeks interventions, with weekly reports to the project sponsor … Read more
Easy book to read about the early story of Nike and the core team behind the logo. It’s a nice story about this entrepreneur with thousand of anecdotes.
What is HIPAA? In 1996, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act or the HIPAA was endorsed by the U.S. Congress. The HIPAA Privacy Rule, also called the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, provided the first nationally-recognizable regulations for the use/disclosure of an individual’s health information. Essentially, the Privacy Rule defines how … Read more
This book is making me to think about some habits and false concepts we use to fall in a daily basis. There are some interesting parts of the book for re-read from time to time. People regretted what they have done, and what they wished they hadn’t done, far more than what they had not … Read more
Joint application design (JAD) is a process used in the life cycle area of the dynamic systems development method (DSDM) to collect business requirements while developing new information systems for a company. When I started working all you did was to see the business user or the customer and gather requirements, then figure out how … Read more