How well do you know your monkeys?

How well do you really know your employees?

How Well Do You Know Your Personae Non Gratae?

in many cases people perform only a cursory security analysis and produce rather generic security requirements. But is this the right way to build secure software? Are security requirements so similar across projects that we simply don’t need to invest the time to explore product-level needs or to document requirements at an individual level for each project? Can we instead rely on business-asu...

How Do You Know?

Epistemology is traditionally classified as one of the fields of philosophy, and some psychologists have been content to leave it to the philosophers. In my opinion, the problem of how we know is an absolutely basic concern of psychology, but whether you consider my remarks to be psychology or philosophy I really do not care, as long as you are willing to grant me that the problem is a fundamen...

How do you know your spreadsheet is right?

Think before you write. Resist the urge to jump right in to actual development. Start with a clear understanding of the requirements of your task. Sketch your design on a whiteboard, and look for flaws. Consider alternate software tools such as databases, statistics packages, financial modeling systems, business intelligence systems, mathematical programming languages, and traditional computer ...

How do you know?

H ow do you know if your patient improves with any particular therapy? In the treatment of patients with vision threatening uveitis, the primary goal of therapy is far from universally accepted. Should the end point be improvement in visual acuity? An obvious choice but flawed since many patients benefit without a discernable change in acuity measurements. Cataract and macular scars can limit t...