13 May
2007

An Epiphany of Purpose

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: :

I have worked at Healthwise, in Boise, for almost 10 years.  We are a not-for-profit organization focused on creating content explaining medicine to lay people to assist them in making better healthcare decisions.  Formally, our mission is succinctly stated as: Healthwise helps people make better health decisions. Of course, my role at Healthwise is focused on software […]

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12 May
2007

Where Have I Been?

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I have been blog-negligent lately.  I haven’t worked a full day in 2 weeks and it looks like I wont be doing so for at least another 2 weeks.  Probably more. My wife had back surgery Thursday and she is drugged up, but healing. I am being mom and dad to all 4 kids, but thankfully […]

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8 May
2007

On Strategy and Leadership

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From Stephen Vincent Benet’s free-verse poem, John Brown’s Body, published in 1928. If you take a flat mapAnd move wooden blocks upon it strategically,The thing looks well, the blocks behave as they should.The science of war is moving live men like blocks.And getting the blocks into place at a fixed moment.But it takes time to […]

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3 May
2007

Answers on Software Wellness

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :

A few days ago I posted a presentation entitled Counting to Zero, A Software Wellness Program for Iterative Development Teams.  We are implementing this program in my workplace, and I have had questions worthy of open discussion. In order for these questions to have context, I recommend you watch the presentation. Question #1 Shouldn’t teams be incented […]

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2 May
2007

EMRs, IT, and The WalMart Effect

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: :

WalMart recently announced an initiative to open 400 medical clinics in their stores in the next few years.  This has the potential to rewrite the playbook on primary care clinical reimbursement models.  Further, WalMart has announced that they intend to partner with local health providers like hospitals to staff their in-store clinics.  One could argue […]

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2 May
2007

More on Microsoft and Open Source

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :

Jon Galloway wrote a fantastic summary of Microsoft’s unofficial explanation for their non-inclusion of OSS in their products.  Apparently he was able to discuss this at MIX with someone in the know and they provided him with a good explanation of the situation. Basically, Microsoft’s position seems to come down to this: Redistributing Open Source Software presents […]

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1 May
2007

Counting to Zero : Software Wellness Screencast

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Are you in development team that works in iterations on multiple software products?  Have you noticed that some of your software doesn’t get the attention to quality it needs?  Are your defect counts growing along with your velocity? My first screen cast, Counting to Zero, A Software Wellness Program for Iterative Software Development Teams, is now available as […]

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