The Deming cycle is used to illustrate the PDCA process :
- PLAN (the objectives)
- DO (the new process)
- CHECK (the results)
- ACT (to find facts that can be improved with iteration)
With the use of iterations, this cycle enables to bring closer to the target, as it is clearly showed on this picture from SpeedEndurance.com :
Here is a exercise that can be done for 5 minutes every day :
- Select a text.
- Read only (and quickly) the first and the last word in each line.
This exercise aims at maintaining speed of eye movements, even if you don’t understand the text.
When you will increase your horizontal vision span, you will be able to read and understand each line with the same speed.
Related Article :
- Speed reading : some links
Getting Things Done is a concept created by David Allen. His methods enables to improve productivity, thanks to the use of tasks lists. There are several applications developed to apply GTD methods on computers.
Some of them are web-based, such as toodledo.com (it will probably be the subject of a future article). And other ones are available on GNU/Linux system, such as this quite new software that seems to be interesting :
Getting Things GNOME !
More informations are given in Ploum’s article. You can share your feedback if you have already tested it.
I really enjoy this group and especially that song “Bailen otra vez” :
Some informations about this group are available on MySpace or on their website (french).
According to Dr. Meredith Belbin‘s studies, each individual’s behaviour can be sorted in one of the 9 following roles :
- Shaper
- Implementer
- Completer Finisher
- Coordinator
- Teamworker
- Resource Investigator
- Plant
- Monitor Evaluator
- Specialist
More details about the role definitions are available in
12manage.com website, or Wikipedia for example.
What is your team role ?
Here are some links about a very interesting field of knowledge, speed reading :
- Wikipedia : introduction on the subject.
- Speed Reading Test : evaluate your reader profile.
Other articles are expected. Stay tuned…
Every web browser can save your favorite websites in a bookmarks system. But when you travel and use several computers (at home, at work, etc…), it is difficult to have the same bookmarks on each computer.
One solution is to save your bookmarks on the web. And that is possible with Delicious. You can mark your bookmarks as private if you don’t want to share them. Besides, there is a firefox add-on that enables to use and save your bookmarks quickly.
And if you don’t want to give up the HTML format, you can export (or import) bookmarks from delicious.com to a HTML file, as it is clearly explained on Shodan.in blog.
PS : This site exists since 2003 and I’m sorry if everybody already knows this kind of informations, but I’m quite late as far as social web services are concerned…
The SWOT analysis is a method that enables to identify the helpful or harmful factors which have an impact on a selected project.
The meaning of SWOT is :
* Internal factors :
– Strengths
– Weaknesses
* External conditions :
– Opportunities
– Threats
They can be illustrated in the following diagram :
A good article is available on the Wikipedia website and there are a lot of links on that subject.
Some link to test your typing speed :
- Games For The Brain – speedtype
- speedtest – 10 fast fingers
As for the lessons, you can find some informations in this website : http://ababasoft.com/typing/typing_links.html
Enjoy !
Warning : this tutorial is only tested on Linux system but there is no reason that it doesn’t work on other systems.
When your Livebox is connected, you can open a web browser and enter the following URL :
192.168.1.1
Then, you can enter the default administrator parameters :
- username : admin
- password : admin
You will see this configuration page
You can select the first option “Internet connection” -> “Change” and enter your internet access data (username and password)
If this option was disabled, it is now enabled and you can surf the internet.
Enjoy !
