ShunichiArai

Hi, I'm new to AYE from Japan. Please call me Shun.

Really looking forward to see AYE people and Jerry.

I love to write program code and really love to dance Salsa!

I'm doing some social activities, one is http://freekaneko.com/en/ which supports a programmer who is accused of creating a software called 'Winny', another one is a NPO called 'League for Software Engineers'. (added 2005.8.24)

If you'd like to know about Salsa in Asia.

I was just a happy programmer, and now I'm a happy dancer and also a confused CEO, consultant, and NPO chair...

ARAI Shunichi (family, given respectively)

Welecome to AYE, Shun. I look forward to meeting you in person. SteveSmith 2005.07.29

Shun, it's nice to meet you. I'm also taking dancing lessons, although right now Mark and I are focusing on rhumba, swing, and hustle. -- JohannaRothman 2005.07.29

Shun, I looked at your website, and though I couldn't understand most of it (being as it was in Japanese), I was impressed with your statement about your company: "We are solving problems lightweight and people-oriented way!" That could well be a motto for the AYE Conference. We're going to have a lot of fun together in November! - JerryWeinberg 2005.07.31

Thank you so much for warm welcome! I'm really excited to attend AYE 2005. - ShunichiArai 2005.08.01

I'm interested in 1. managing myself 2. managing a team when members are having many other tasks than my project. I'm a real beginner in management.

How do you manage yourself? Personally I have ADHD-ish problem, and difficult to concentrate. Anyway I see mostly everyone wants to amplify their effectiveness. Especially working as an independent professional, there are many tasks to do, such as research, design, consulting, teaching, management, sales, etc... Sometimes I feel like drowning.
How do you manage team tasks? In some company, thankfully we can focus to one task or one project. But when working as an independent professional or a member of small-sized company, we have to care many things at one time. Team may easily collapse because task assignment will be chaos.

http://dev.ariel-networks.com/modules/xfsection/article.php?articleid=12

In this funny Japanese article, Inoue suggests that TCP flow control algorithm can be adopted to human task assignment. Assuming (i) someone's not able to know other person's ability and situation (ii) people's positive acknoledgment is not credible. Therefore doubling assigning tasks until the recipient fails.

Now I'm managing few independent contractors and a bunch of NPO members. I really wish to know everyone's ability (and motives) to do tasks. But the fact is I don't know even their rough schedules yet...

- ShunichiArai 2005.08.02

I don't much like this idea of managing by loading a person until s/he fails. In general, it's not a good idea to try to manage too precisely. People are not that precise. But it is a good idea to watch people and how they respond, but try to catch them before they fail. Try managing by a series of non-trivial successes. - JerryWeinberg 2005.08.03

Updated: Tuesday, August 23, 2005