This week’s guest is Steve Pereira. Steve and Ron discussed Steve’s minimalist approach to value stream mapping, and how it differs from other approaches. Steve doesn’t have a traditional lean background, but his perspective is refreshing and unique.

Source: GA 382 | Simplifying Value Stream Mapping with Steve Pereira

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Government officials in the US, UK, and Australia are urging public- and private-sector organizations to secure their networks by ensuring firewalls, VPNs, and other network-perimeter devices are patched against the most widespread exploits.

Source: Feds list the top 30 most exploited vulnerabilities. Many are years old

Boys are often allowed to stray farther from home without adult supervision than girls are. Imgorthand/E+ Collection via Getty Images The distance from home that kids are allowed to roam and play has shrunk significantly over the last 50 years.

Source: Kids set free to roam on their own feel more confident navigating in adulthood

Argonne National Laboratory/flickr , CC BY-NC-SA More than 5,000 kilometres beneath us, Earth’s solid metal inner core wasn’t discovered until 1936 . Almost a century later, we’re still struggling to answer basic questions about when and how it first formed.

Source: Earth’s inner core is growing more on one side than the other – here’s why the planet isn’t tipping

Who gives a crap about the history of toilets? Francis de los Reyes does. He’s a professor of civil engineering at North Carolina State University whose research focuses on “wastewater treatment plant design, environmental biotechnology and microbiology, fundamentals of environmental engineering, and water and sanitation for developing countries.” — Read the rest

Source: Here is a brief history of toilets

I mentioned Project Pelican (still a codename until the end of the embargo) last week . This week it inspired a new plugin, datasette-remote-metadata . I also published an article describing the Baked Data architectural patttern and shared the video and transcript of a talk I gave at PyGotham last year. datasette-remote-metadata Datasette’s metadata system is one of the key ways of customizing a Datasette instance: it lets you add extra information about the tables hosted by the instance, lets you configure canned queries and also (due to some scope creep that I’d love to clean up ) lets you configure options for various Datasette plugins.

Source: Weeknotes: datasette-remote-metadata, sqlite-transform –multi

Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects – Tim Lister What is Risk? What is Risk Management? Six Common Pitfalls of Risk Management Retrospective Coherence – What Does That Mean ? Risk Management is Project Management for Adults – Tim Lister Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects (Part 2) Risk Management of How Adult Manage Projects (12.0 of Workshop) Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects: Agile is Not Risk Management (Alone) Risk Management is How Adults Manage Projects (Susanne Mades talk) Risk Management is How Adults Manage Project (Critical Uncertainties) Risk Management is Project Management for Adults (Tim Lister’s talk) Acting Like an Adult in the Presence of Uncertainty A Quick Summary of Risk Management The Profession of Risk Management and its Value to Project Success Beyond the Risk Register Six Steps of Risk Management Risk, Their Sources, and Handling Strategies Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack Both Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainty Creat Risk Epistemic and Aleatory Uncertainty Creates Risk to Project Success Aleatory Uncertainty Creates Irreducible Risk Epistemic Uncertainty Creates Reducible Risk How Do Projects Fail?

Source: Compendium of Blog Posts for Managing in the Presence of Risk

Welcome to issue #150 of The Process , the newsletter for FlowingData members about how the charts get made. I’m Nathan Yau, and every month I collect tools and resources that help you visualize data better. This is the good stuff for July.

Source: ✚ Visualization Tools and Learning Resources, July 2021 Roundup