This material is the work of Lord Prince Imhotep, Chief Architect and Designer of the Great Pyramid at Giza This material is the work of Lord Prince Imhotep, Chief Architect and Designer of the Great Pyramid at Giza Equivalent of COO or GM. Be in the head of Imhotep What he learned from Pop
Disclaimer This material is all factual The results of the work presented were completed four millennia ago I am only the reporter Blame John Zachman
An Aside Will Shakespeare The aside as a speech We will use the aside to look forward See how well the lessons were learned
Useless Information I will tell you stories that will seem to mean nothing Everything I tell you will prepare a solid foundation for what follows This concept of a solid foundation is very important
But First – A Test How Big is the Great Pyramid? When was it Built? How many built it? How long did it take?
The Mystery How was it constructed A ramp or two or three A slide and crude hoist They carried them up Or my favorite `- Aliens
The Pyramid – A Design Problem
At last, we got it right The Red Pyramid of Snefru Khufu’s Father
The Pyramids Today
This is the Inside of the Tomb
History and Background 2400 BCE - Fifth Year of Khufu’s Reign
Khufu was 2nd Pharaoh of 4th Dynasty Egypt had little or no outside contact Government was combination of Monarchy and Theocracy
Khufu Wanted a Tomb In the Giza Plain - Ensured Safety for the dead
Eight times bigger than Red Pyramid - Khufu expanded the empire by eight fold
Further Protection Needed Completed while alive - Twenty Five year timeframe
Why Giza? 100 Feet above sea level No threat of flooding One mile from the Nile Most stuff came by barge Tons and Tons of granite Seven different kinds Did I mention Limestone?
Lunch with God Personal Responsibility – Gave me his Ankh Gave me Supreme Authority Gave me Unlimited Money
Project Failure Rate Standish Group - 23 per cent succeed
- 77 per cent fail
- 27 per cent fail miserably
Why so bad Do it cheap Do it with minimal staff Do it fast Do it cheap Does the CEO want this application? Did I mention do it cheap?
Maintenance Applications are a point in time solution The business changes, the application change Common defects New interfaces USAA had more interfaces than applications More time is spent maintaining interfaces than the applications
Authority
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General Leslie Groves Man responsible for the Atomic Bomb Strategic Imperative Letter of Command from President Roosevelt
Imhoteps’ First Questions What Is needed How Am I going to do this Where am I going to build Who will help me What do I do first – last Why am I doing this?
Didn’t Have Iron Tools Pi 0 The Fulcrum An industrial wheel and axle The Yoke
Had People Resources Space Building Know How A method of managing and communicating
What to do First Visited the Great Step Pyramid - Largest, oldest structure in the world
Visited the Red Pyramid Back at Giza - Two months walking and measuring
Back to Memphis
The terrain Sandy How do you build on sand Dig out the sand until down to the bed rock Back fill with large stones and rubble
Questions and Issues Started to record every question and issue Wrote them down as they occurred to me No Particular Order I needed a plan Lists could help me organize my thinking The lists would become my plan
Benefits of Lists Defined a problem area Collected like issues and questions into one place Set the scope and context of any specific issue Set the total scope and context for all Intensified my thinking Created more lists Defined what I would need to know
What was needed How to do it Where to be done Who would do it When to do it
Early Observation Any Issue on one list had an extension on every other list Needed to make new lists based on issues and questions across all the lists Created the idea of an “Interrogative”
Order to the Problem There is a natural and required progression The steps of progression could be defined It became mandatory to follow the progression Could not make any assumptions all understood the progression
Progression Order Define and Understand the problem area Assign Authority and Responsibility to each area Design what was required Assign responsibility to build Get the right people on the site Continually monitor progress
The Event What ever you think needs to be done first, something else must be done beforehand Before the Pyramids he had to build the city of Gaza first - A large city for the time - 25,000 people, statistics
Importance of Event Every project needs to know what the end product must be Every project has an idea of where you are What is the killer is no one knows how to get from here to there
Enter Abbot Suger Old Romanesque Church went up in smoke (Made of wood) Suger had just finished the Church at St. Denys Wanted to build his Masterpiece
How Funded Convinced the Pope Convinced the Royals Convinced himself - Chartres was a crossroads town
- Easy to get to
One Little Problem The Foundation And the results were
Imhotep’s Problem Knew where he had to get Knew where he was Had to figure out how to get to the end in twenty-five years With mostly unskilled workers
How high can you count Can’t you just here Imhotep talking to Pharaoh and saying – - Hey boss, just how much can I spend on this project?
He needed metrics - How much
- How many
- How long
Needed to Communicate Fortunately had Hieroglyphics - Papyrus, brush, paint
- Portable
- Easy to Copy (?)
Unfortunately had Hieroglyphics - 6,000 Characters – Symbols, Pictures, Sounds
- Method of Display
Need to talk about this
The Big Boom The Atomic Bomb cost $2,000,000,000 The Bomb was done completely in secret General Leslie Groves had to insure secure communications between four locations Stalin did not want the bomb
Problem of Communication Must express ideas of thought Must Change Implicit Idea to Explicit rendering Must have an order Must be repeatable and teachable
First Writing Systems Arbitrarily Designed - Could have been sqmeu, etc.
Needed to be formalized Needed to be accepted Needed a standard method of teaching
Information Persistence Think about an encyclopedia Why did man create such a thing So lessons would not have to be repeated every time A history of where we have been A guide to help us design new
A Pedagogy Arbitrarily Designed Established a uniform method of teaching Established the method of communication Started as Implicit evolved to explicit Based on teaching a language it established how all subjects would be taught
Rules of Writing Systems Produce a standard form or picture of each character. Create a standard spelling for each word. Establish standard pronunciations of each letter and each word. Institute standard meanings of each word. Set up standard rules for the use of words.
No Modifications Allowed!!!!!! Once established could not be changed by individuals Created “standards” Made more acceptable to all If altered by individual destroyed power of communication
Far Reaching Ramifications Applies to any form that changes Implicit to Explicit Applies to the construction of any scientific or engineering principle Each discipline has its own language and method of presentation Each has own set of rules
The Basics of Data Are Born Would need to have standards Would have to be complete Would have to be accurate Would need to be transferable Would need to be repeatable
Enter the joy of the Data Model So just which formalism do you use? Why are there so many different formalisms? Who is Right? Can something be done to eliminate the confusion?
Not a Chance Mine is better than yours Always done this way Inability to retrain Replace with new silver bullets Last time we tried it it didn’t work No Budget It takes too long and costs too much
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Process Order
What was Created Six Major Engineering Disciplines Method Of Rules Support Method of Data Support A civilization that lasted more than 3000 years
Accounting & Law – All about data Industrial Engineering Civil Engineering Organizational Engineering Logistical Engineering Industrial Psychology
What Pharaoh knew about Data If it wasn’t reported it didn’t exist If the data wasn’t of interest to him it didn’t exist If the data did not get him what he wanted when he wanted it, it did not exist What was on the reports was what existed and he held all accountable for everything
Organization Rules
Proof of Examples Each Picture Clearly Communicates Entire Thought It makes what is implicit explicit Know the Symbols, Know the Language, Know the Data Each has rules of use Rules of Use are not violated
What the Renderings Mean Each of the pictures is a model A model changes the implicit to explicit A model clearly communicates the idea in a picture format Know the language of the model, know the explicit ideas, know the data A model needs Rules Rules Rules
Rules of Modeling Systems Produce a standard form or picture of each shape. Create a standard spelling for using shapes. Establish standard pronunciations for each shape. Institute standard meanings of each shape. Set up standard rules for the use of shapes.
Imhoteps Rules of Rules Know What Pharaoh wants - Know what and when to report
- Know what unit of measure and metrics are
- Get the information correct
- Rules and data are relative to a location or domain
- Rules constrain, permit, direct and manage
- Break a rule, pay the price (enforce and comply or die) Verify the truth of the data
- Enforcement must be swift
- Delegate authority and responsibility
- Hold all accountable
- Its all about physics
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The Ultimate Rule Hieroglyph
Proof of Rules for Data Fills all needs of a language Fills all needs of pedagogy Fills all needs of model Creates a True Standard Clearly communicates all in a glance Is precise and correct Establishes Laws and Rules of the Discipline of Data
Questions?
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