The following was listed on a slide in my Orgs, Apps, and Tech class as the steps in "BPM" ("business process management"):
1. identify processes for change
2. analyse existing processes
3. design the new process
4. implement the new process
5. continuous measurement
Orgs, Apps, and Tech is supposed to fill a social sciences requirement for the College of IS&T at UNO. But everyone knows it's just a business class. They may as well have called it "Business Management for Aspiring IT Professionals".
Like, yeah, I guess if I was told to come up with five steps for how to change the way business processes change, that'd be as good a list as any. Is this supposed to be, like, insightful? Is it supposed to illuminate some difficult idea or inform us of a procedure that must be done a certain way to achieve a specific result? This is a list of generalities that sound business-y. How do businessfolk take themselves seriously?
Anyway, I guess Hacksphere Spheroid News is fallen by the wayside, since I didn't write a piece on the xz backdoor. Why would I? But I *did* write a paper on it for Orgs, Apps, and Tech. No, I *am writing* it. It isn't done yet. It's supposed to be 8 to 10 pages. That's just a lot of writing no matter what it's about.
The Hackersphere isn't affected by it, by the way. At least, it isn't known to be. This server is on liblzma v5.4.1. It's running a stable version of Ubuntu, so it was probably never affected. Unless 5.4.1 turns out to have been compromised after all, in which case, we're all fucked. I for one welcome our new supreme overlord Jia Tan.