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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.

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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.

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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.

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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)?

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