Efficient - process management includes deliberate process optimization/improvement.

Capable - the process is quantitatively managed in accordance with agreed-upon metrics.

Defined - the process is defined/confirmed as a standard business process

Repeatable - the process is at least documented sufficiently such that repeating the same steps may be attempted.

Initial (chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics) - the starting point for use of a new or undocumented repeat process.

we will never find anything morethan gradual differences. Yet we are not a bit “man” and a bit“woman” (or vice versa), but either “man” or “woman”—we areone or the other. This absolute difference does not exist in (lived)reality, which knows only gradual distinctions.

owthoroughly trenchant was his ability to sort contradictory signals, I have nodoubt that he must have already suspected something.

Hesaw through everybody, but he saw through them precisely because the firstthing he looked for in people was the very thing he had seen in himself andmay not have wished others to see

After the two lovers have at last slept together, we learn that what each perceived as theother’s indifference and dislike had actually been signs of their affection all along. In fact, welearn that the signs they misunderstand are largely signs that each himself uses to conveyaffection, so that they are almost literally in love with their own reflections.

“No harm. Except I like to go it alone, if you don’t mind.”

I was seventeen that year and, being the youngest at the tableand the least likely to be listened to, I had developed the habit of smugglingas much information into the fewest possible words

research data life cycle

My experience is that whatever students learn from that formalism is left by the wayside as soon as they move into a mathematical context of any substance.

As a company’s processes mature and the apps they use get more sophisticated, we expect to see the need to go to Slack for exception handling *decrease* over time.