Post-Industrial Process Model

I have had significant exposure throughout my career with everything from naïve processes, to permutations of the Waterfall model and various Agile processes, but I find that at best they are extensions of industrial-age management strategies. Specifically, I find them to ignore that:

• Knowledge products are chiefly made of language.
• The act of producing knowledge products is one of precise definition rather than one of manufacturing labour.
• The only significant variable cost of production is the time of skilled craftspeople, which bears little benefit to reduce.
• Shifting focus from cost reduction and quicker time-to-market to revenue generation and a longer product lifespan yields much greater value.

Therefore, I have begun to define a post-industrial management process which takes these into account, specifically targeting:

• An economical, predictable and defensible product design phase;
• Tangible business value that commensurates with mutual investments of both clients and vendors;
• The reinforcement and effective communication of conceptual integrity;
• Division of labour across core interests to mitigate vacillation; and
• Maximization of product longevity and intrinsic value.

This project is currently in the research phase with no public commitments for completion.

Resource Handling and Representation Policy

The policy I am writing, in its current form, is essentially a rough catalogue of every recommendation I have for designing Web-based products and services. The motivation for doing so is to provide cogent arguments to support specific implementation recommendations — to demonstrate business value to clients and technical merit to developers.

I am actively adding to this project in the order of a few pages a week, and plan to release an augmented version of it as a book in 2009.

Semantic Web Application Framework

As a specific application of the aforementioned process and policy, I plan to implement a Semantic Web application framework, intended to extend and eventually supplant the current MVC paradigm of Web development, as well as manage the meta-data and relationships thereof associated with Semantic Web.

As I design the product, I will be using this site as a demonstration platform.