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Ron Richard

About Ron Richard

Ron Richard, Quality, Information Technology and Enterprise Risk Management specialist, has earned professional designations from multiple countries, held positions at most any level, and acquired more than 30 years of relevant experience including related work done at the College of the North Atlantic. Ron is author of Inherent Quality Simplicity and the Inside Internal Control newsletter Modern Quality Management series.

By Ron Richard | 2 Minutes Read March 4, 2013

Change, exponential power, enterprise architecture, governance and stakeholder engagement

I've decided to take a break from blogging for Inside Internal Controls following this post. What follows here is an eclectic bit of sharing which I hope you will find of value.

Article by Ron Richard / Business, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit, Privacy / app4mind, autotelic activities, Bjorn Martinoff, change, Csikszentmihalyi, disruption, EA Survey, Employee disengagement, Enterprise Architecture, expotential power, flow, fortune100coach, governance, inherent quality, ISACA, ITGI, Matthew Ford Kern, order, ordering consciousness, Sheila Kelly, Stakeholder engagement, Susan Alexander, The big Yes, value based leadership

By Ron Richard | 8 Minutes Read February 4, 2013

Take testing activities up a level

In a 2009 blog post, Dr. James Whittaker suggested all managers out there need to ask themselves what they’ve done lately to make their testers (e.g., software engineers, system analysts and anyone else who may be involved in testing activities) more creative.

Article by Ron Richard / Business, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit, Privacy / Automated Testing, CMMI, Common Testing Excuses, Google, Human Testers, Improving Testing, information technology, Inherent Quality Simplicity, Manual Testing, Microsoft, Regression Testing, SearchSoftwareQuality, software engineering, technology, Test Cases, Test Robots, Test Techniques, Utest, Whittaker

By Ron Richard | 2 Minutes Read February 4, 2013

Your service-oriented architecture expert opinion

I recently came across two different definitions of service-oriented architecture and I asked Grady Booch if he would share his expert opinion (i.e., do these two definitions align, or is one correct or more correct)?

Article by Ron Richard / Business, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit, Privacy / Case studies, Cloud, Definitions, e-government, expert opinion, Grady Booch, IBM, Info-Tech, Inherent Quality Simplicity, Lessons Learned, Service Oriented Architecture, SOA, SOA Consortium, SOA Manifesto, TechTarget, Whitepapers

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