Founders' feast

FEAST Workshop

The Founders of Neurology

Will Pickles of Wensleydale. The Life of a Country Doctor. by JOHN PEMBERTON, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1970, pp. 224, illus., £2-50. Will Pickles (1885-1969) was a country general practitioner of Wensleydale, who made a positive contribution to epidemiology, defining the incubation periods of infectious fevers by a method which he described as 'the short and only possible contact'. He applied a s...

Hackers and Founders

ISO17799 (formerly BS17799) is a standard for heuristic security management in organizations, and ISO20000 (formerly BS15000) is the ITIL reference document. Both of these are high-level, handwaving guidelines about service and business operations. True enough, they pay lip service to configuration management, but the configuration management they refer to is not the same as discussed in ;login...

A moveable feast.

Preprints Feast Workshop Iii

How do organizations use feedback to change their processes, and hence, improve their performance? A small working group isproposing that any organization under control almost always should be using feedback to stabilize and improve their products.We describe the results of applying the Feedback, Evolution, And Software Technology (FEAST) feedback model to ourwork on improving t...