SUO: RE: Topic :> Definition Of Principle
Dear Jon,
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> Extra Credit Question. What does Shutness encourage?
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MW: isolation.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Awbrey [mailto:jawbrey@att.net]
> Sent: 05 December 2003 00:48
> To: SUO; West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE
> Subject: Re: Topic :> Definition Of Principle
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> Topic :> Principle. http://suo.ieee.org/email/thrd4.html#11641
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> JA = Jon Awbrey
> MW = Matthew West
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> Running summary of remarks on the Topic of Principles.
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> 1. In reference to:
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> Topic :> Principle 1. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11641.html
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> Reiterated thus:
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> JA: 1. What is a principle?
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> AKA: axiom, canon, guideline, law, maxim, norm,
> regulation, rule, etc.
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> JA: 2. What are our principles?
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> Matthew replied:
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> MW: A guiding truth, but note that you should never let
> your principles prevent you from doing what's right.
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> 2. In reference to:
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> Topic :> Principle 2. http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11712.html
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> Reiterated thus:
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> JA: I have been asking about the broader principles of procedure
> that the details of implementation are meant to flesh out,
> since the nuts and bolts are irrelevant if the big ideas
> fail to be realized, and we lose sight of these guiding
> lights at the peril of the whole enterprise, indeed,
> of its due place within the larger human picture.
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> JA: Can you give the foremost examples of principles,
> either in the
> sense of "guiding truths", or in any other sense of the word,
> that you would have embodied in the Procedure specification,
> and by virtue of its utility in the SUO Group, to become
> embodied in the procedures themselves of this Group?
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> Matthew replied:
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> MW: The principles of the Procedures Manual are those
> of Quality Management. We have our own internal
> documents on QM but looking at Amazon I see that
> 'Managing Quality', edited by Barrie G. Dale seems
> to be a standard text (though I have not read it).
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> MW: To summarise QM: For a product, quality is about
> being "fit for purpose". A feature that prevents
> the product from being fit for purpose is a defect.
> Improving quality is therefore about identifying and
> eliminating defects.
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> MW: My experience with using this approach is that it tends
> to produce more constructive and structured discussions.
> Instead of getting statements like "I think we should do X",
> you get something like "The A feature prevents us
> from doing B.
> If we did X this would enable us to do B".
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> MW: I have seen this turn around projects that were going
> in circles
> to enable them to gain traction, and remove personal
> conflict that
> often arises in opinion based debate.
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> 3. In another message:
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> MW: Openness encourages good behaviour.
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> MW: The principles of Quality Management.
> In particular that we are "engineers"
> delivering a product that needs to be
> fit for purpose.
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> Extra Credit Question. What does Shutness encourage?
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