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Visitors Welcome! at Inherent Quality

Hopefully you find your first and return visits of value. BTW, there is a paper on the site that was written with Wikipedia in mind. In fact, I originally wrote it thinking of adding it as an external link to various Wikipedia pages. But higher-road thinking prevailed. In other words, it is better such be left to a reader with a more neutral point of view. Here is a direct link to the paper Inherent Quality paper. There are also weblog articles on COBIT 4.0 that perhaps someone may wish to add to Wikipedia COBIT pages, particularly as the first article was written with expert ISACA/ITGI collaboration. When/if you read the paper you should see it potentially applies to many Wikipedia pages related to Quality, and software and information technology. For example relates to Quality, Quality Management, COBIT, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, Critical chain, List of software development philosophies, Agile software development, Extreme project management, Software engineering, Extreme Programming, Software project management, Capability Maturity Model, Project management, Business Process Improvement, Process improvement, ISO 9000, CMMI, TSP/PSP, MOF/MSF, SCRUM, Total Quality Management, Quality control, Quality management system. The concept associated with the paper (Inherent Quality), is in fact far reaching, as it applies intimately to virtually anything related to the profession. Including as further example, various matters associated with the full spectrum of the profession's ever expanding body of knowledge and therefore including but not restricted to such things as RUP, PMBOK, PRINCE2, COPC, Baldrige, NQI, COSO II, Six Sigma, ERM, and so on… for example: Auditing, Programming Languages and Tools, Databases, Networking, Security, Identity Management, Compliance, Enforcement, Coding Standards, Adherence, Integration, Team and Personal Processes, Standards, Professionalism, Best Practices, Automation, Pursuing Exceptional Results, Comparisons, Benchmarking, Research, Excellence, Frameworks, Capability Maturity Models, Lifecycle technologies, Enterprise solutions' architecting and delivery, aligning IT and the business, ensuring and increasing value, making quality more inherent, Lifecycle technology services, Collaboration, Quality Assurance-Control, Software Quality, Technology Innovation, Quality Improvement-Management, Interaction within the global software and information technology professional community. I could go on but it is just as easy if you read the paper and review site content. Thank You in advance for your time, kindest, professionalism, reading, thinking and positive words / actions.

p.s. paper also conveys a special thanks to all contributors of the Internet (which is among other a virtual gateway to exploring, understanding and adding to the steadily developing software and information technology industry and profession’s inherent DNA genes)... among other I was talking about Wikipedians. And on that note, much thanks to Kuru for proper introduction, and also thanks to Mak, William Pietri, Commander Keane and Teke.

Cheers, --Ron Richard 05:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)