In an ideal world, of course, you are quite right, a polite admonition that his behaviour is not acceptable would be all that was needed. Unfortunately this is not an ideal world and with Charlie polite admonitions are ignored. His arrogance is such that he truly believes that he can say and do no wrong, something which I have no doubt is apparent to you as you have read most of his posts.
You said yourself that you had to slap him down when he was particularly unpleasant to Carmen. Unfortunately even this seems to register for only a limited period, so the only remedy is to react as David described when he becomes particularly obnoxious.
As for voting him off, yes, we could do that, but the ease with which a mail account can be opened under a different name really make that pretty much a waste of time. The only recourse seems to be to treat his excusions into xenophobia, homophobia, racial discrimination harshly to show that they have no place on this forum. Hopefully this will eventually get through to him.
I have read most of Charlestons threads and I recently had to slap him down when he was really nasty to Carmen.
Then again we had a good debate last year on Who Owns the Float. Andrew Flowerdew finally adjudicated on my side.
He can be a bit of a "Stick Poker" but we should not react with canine instinct. The way to get him into line is to politely tell him where he is wrong but not ignore him.
As a last resort I suppose we could all join up and vote him off the site but lets see if he has learnt anything from this last episode.
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Submitted by Christopher Ashton on Thu, 2009-01-08 04:12
Being new to all this in this typical forum, why cant we all be civilised about this, even in the present climate, When someone starts to offend people on here why do people react in a way that we all get to read about it.
Lets make this a full debate on the way forward and not be picky on critisism.
we are all professional adults and need to act in a manner that needs to show our professionalism.
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Submitted by Chris Oggham on Thu, 2009-01-08 03:27
You said of Charlie - I know that you can put points across fluently and cogently when you want to - so why not keep to that format. If you have read enough of his posts to draw that conclusion, you should also be aware that he is capable of a vindictive, spiteful, nastiness and a virulent, bigoted, intolerance which can be absolutely breathtaking.
Having been the subject of a number of Charlie’s offensive diatribes I’m afraid I’m with David on this one.
No doubt you will have noticed that, despite having had to admit he was wrong, there is no hint of apology or contrition. Just a snide enquiry as to whether he will be executed, what so many of us have come to regard as typical Charlie.
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Submitted by David Bordoli on Wed, 2009-01-07 12:11
But tell me this, if you continually poke a dog with a sharp stick would you be surprised if it suddenly bit you?
I am afraid I have complained to the moderators on more than one occasion about Charlies racist and offensive behaviour and still he is allowed to poke me with a sharp stick.
I am proud of my country (although our recent governments are trying my patience), I love the richness of our language. I find it difficult to stand by, all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing… and let some moron besmirch my country and language.
Keep conversations civil. This is a professional forum. Flaming, taunting, name calling, abusive language and derisive / condescending posts will not be tolerated.
Stop it both of NOW.
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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Wed, 2009-01-07 11:57
Why are words written in capitals more difficult to read than words in small letters? There are two basic reasons:
Firstly, at least for native English speakers, children usually learn to read and write small letters before capital letters.
Secondly, and more importantly, words written in capital letters have no "shape". Words with small letters go up and down. Some small letters have "ascenders" (like the letter b). They go up. Some small letters have "descenders" (like the letter p). They go down. Some small letters have no ascender or descender. They stay in the middle. So small letters vary in height. But all capital letters are the same height (BP).
When we read text, especially when we read fast, we do not read each individual letter. Instead, we read whole words and phrases. And we recognize these words and phrases partly by their shape."
Maybe you should have a word with your English teacher Charlie, he/she does not sound too good. Or, more likley, some of his/her students were so thick and stupid that they could not grasp the need for clarity in written communication.
I am forced to respond because you are a f***** IDIOT (I guess that is something similar to what you refer to as xxxxxx ENGLISH yyyyyyy). Your ignorance about everything is beyond redemption.
Before shouting off your mouth why not take a look at, say, Wikipedia:
Internet
This form of typography also appears in on-line forums. It was once an inevitable byproduct of using machines with limited support for lowercase text (such as certain dumb terminals, early Apple II models), but as full support of ASCII became standard, it became solely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour. As a result, netiquette generally discourages the use of all caps.
As far as I know Wikipedia was born in the USA and is not purely English. That chip on your shoulder must be really wearing you down.
B******s to you... you really are a nasty racist...
Any offence absolutely intended.
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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Wed, 2009-01-07 11:27
You conclusion that Im shouting is borne by your misconception.
If I print in capital letter, then, you conclude that Im shouting.
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAPITAL LETTERS AND SHOUTING.
DID YOU HEAR ME SHOUTING WHEN I USED CAPITAL LETTERS. Is this the way english writing are to be interpreted. My teacher in English did not tell me that writing in capital letters is tantamount to shouting.
or as my favorite thesis which i really hate to use now in 2009 but force me to use: IS THIS THE INTERPRETATION for idiotic xxxxxx ENGLISH yyyyyyy ???? The pretenders masters in the use of the english language.
Please enlighthen the PP community.
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Submitted by Chris Oggham on Wed, 2009-01-07 11:09
"...A 20 minute discussion ensued where more questions than answers appeared to be raised. At the end of the debate, just about everyone agreed that a Discussion Forum Group be setup whereby the PP community could discuss the issues at hand.
Issues raised and discussed were such as....
(1) Do we need to be recognised / certified / accredited or graded?
(2) Do we need a professional body such as APM or PMI to do this, or should, or could we, organise and accredit ourselves?
(3) Irrespective of how such certification or accreditation is carried out, what Core Competences / Skills should be recognised and how could we grade such skills?
(4) How can we assure the market / employers that such accreditation is unbiased and indeed accurate?
The PP Team hope that this is the beginning of something new and exciting for us planners!!
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Submitted by Nestor Principe on Sat, 2008-12-06 01:05
The would be pp body has not to be just another organization. In the process of forming the body a lot of consultation with the industrys major players may be required. Some strong representation will be a great help.
If you are experienced planner then you knew exactly how it is and what is needed.
I dont want to sound too ambitious but what for the planners and schedulers need accreditation, professional growth, is not it? Why would I want to be a member? Besides no one is going to get it free.
Just an opinion.
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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Fri, 2008-12-05 22:54
AND I WOULD PROPOSE THAT WE WILL GET ACCREDITATION THROUGH OUR OWN PP EFFORT, OUR OWN PP VALUES AS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING ENGINEERS SOMETIMES CALLED PLANNERS AND SCHEDULERS (if you happen to be not an engineer but practicing planning and scheduling).
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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Fri, 2008-12-05 22:40
The idea of CIOB getting PEO or Planning Planet involved in CIOB planning accreditation was
similar to PMI getting AACEs PSP program into PMI planning agenda.
or maybe Im wrong
CIOB- Chartered Institute of Builders
PMI- Project Management Institute
What is interesting to note is both organization are lacking in substance with regards to planning ideas and practice. Why????
Because planning is only a miniscule of the whole project management or bulding concept.
Unfortunately, both organization realize their shortcomming and found out that PMP or Chartered members are ignorant of the whole planning process, the use of planning software, the forensic side of planning
AND THEY THOUGHT THAT BY ENTICING PP TO GET ACCREDITED, IT WILL SOLVE THEIR PROBLEM.
A good planners real test is scheduling a task that seem is imposible to build. He gets idea from the expert and how much the client is willing to spend. On the process he will get lots of criticism from the very team that he is working with. At the end of the day, he has proven he can do it and he got rewarded.
I can see many potentials in formalizing the body to govern the planning planet and its members. It will only happen at a certain cost. Lets continue finding a way how it could be done.
This is also my last posting on this thread. I am genuinely surprised, and also rather disappointed by the resposes of some, who say that an accreditation is wanted, but then do not want to join in with an existing initiative which could then be tailored and adopted by all organisations at a later date.
Once again, if anyone does want to get involved with the current CIOB initiative, please feel free to e-mail me at tobyhunt@hillintl.com
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Submitted by David Bordoli on Fri, 2008-12-05 07:09
I can hear the cheers when I say that i am no longer going to post on this thread. Why bother - there sems to be such amount of negative feeling without a scintilla of positive thought.
I say sod em. If they dont want to come to our party then why bother with them. At least the CIOB is doing something.
I am beginning to wonder if there is any correleation between the number of post and the stupidity/lack of awareness of the poster (hello Charlie).
The CIOB recognises that it may not be the best long term vehicle through which to accredit planners and schedulers, and that is why Gary France from the PEO is involved. The initial thoughts were that they might be the more suitable (through IPEO, MPEO, FPEO etc).
Is it not perhaps better for us all to pull in the same direction now with the CIOB to get the guide completed, and then argue about the better long term vehicle further down the line?
This has started but didnt progressed I supposed.
May I suggest to PP Admin the following:
1. At the moment, instead of sending Job Openings to all the members (thru free e-mail), why not send a pre-qualifying examination to each and every member (this is done in private). You may prepare several types of examination and send it on random, so that no one knows what he or she is going to receive.
2. Granting that the membership is Free, I believe that the results of the examinations (considering that it is valid)can be used as a filtering device, for any purpose that you may want, i.e. access to the PP pages or database, categorization (leveling) or whatever (I just hope the forum remains free for all without discrimination, even for those who did not pass the exams).
3. The examination(s) should be done only once (for each member to take), if you fail, theres no second chance. This will assure that only serious takers or members will take the chance.
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Submitted by Chris Oggham on Fri, 2008-12-05 05:14
Se is absolutely right. Before any decision is made concerning the direction to take we need to know what it is that people want. Not only that we need to know what they dont want, after all its no good developing an organisation that no-one wants to be part of.
As for Charlie pointing out that Planning Planet is free, he is absolutely correct. But the only reason it is free is because of the efforts of a small group of dedicated individuals who work hard and for free to keep it that way. If, however, a professional organisation with recognised certification or accreditation is formed (see PP Admin post#1) it wont be free.
There is a great deal of expense in running a professional organisation, and it wont be covered by the revenue from a few ads by Google. An Annual membership fee will be a necessity, this alone, means finding out what people want and what they dont want just as Se pointed out.
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Submitted by David Bordoli on Fri, 2008-12-05 05:11
"The essence of planning planet brand is FREE, free membership irrespective of religious belief, affiliation to other planning organization. It is not discriminatory to newbie planners, to wedding planners, to keyboard planners, to pretenders to the throne of planning expers, to the real professional planners, etc."
Is that the only way you can assure yourself you will get membership Charlie? Are we allowed to discriminate against nationalistic, racist, chip-on-your-shoulder planners?
And dont forget, the value of something that is FREE is nothing.
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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Thu, 2008-12-04 21:04
I agree that we have to move on with the accreditation using our unique planning planet brand.
The essence of planning planet brand is FREE, free membership irrespective of religious belief, affiliation to other planning organization. It is not discriminatory to newbie planners, to wedding planners, to keyboard planners, to pretenders to the throne of planning expers, to the real professional planners, etc.
FREE free for anyone to log in,
FREE freedom to share ideas with anyone especially the real profesional planners,
I think the main issue of contention here is how this accreditation will be branded. There are those who think that accreditation through an existing Chartered Institute, Cost Management Group, Project Management Group is one way. The other, is to come up with an independent accreditation for schedulers/planners by schedulers/planners.
I believe if we go by the first option, that would not achieve the goal of producing a “universally” accepted standard, if this is really the objective. Doing the 2nd option could do otherwise, maybe.
IMO.
Have we ever tried asking the schedulers/planners on this issue? Why don’t we put it to a survey? So that we would know what schedulers/planners stand in this issue. Not what Chartered Institute, Cost Management Group, Project Management Group want.
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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Thu, 2008-12-04 02:15
Please dont misunderstand me. I am not nay saying this idea at all. I didnt know the background so I asked for the rationale behind it.
I then suggested an issue to be considered when designing it - i.e. how to target it for people with more genuine or more in line with the original professional intention. Please dont assume this means I am opposed to the idea because Im not. I didnt offer a solution to this issue only because I dont know the best way to deal with it. That doesnt mean its a bad concept.
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Submitted by Nestor Principe on Thu, 2008-12-04 01:09
Admirably concise and superbly targeted. However, in mitigation, (yes I know I must have had a bang on the head if Im defending Charlie), in a brainstorming process like this even nay-sayers and bullsh1t merchants have a part to play, so for once Charlie may be fulfilling a useful function.
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Submitted by David Bordoli on Wed, 2008-12-03 05:35
If you dont like the CIOB brand then dont support it - I am sure the CIOB brand will survive without your support. And dont worry too much about no-one respecting you - are you sure if anyone does at the moment?
I like how you use the word our when you refer to brilliant planning minds - in my humble opinion you are flattering yourself.
May I suggest, as you are so vociferous about not wanting to be aligned with anyone except for Planning Planet, that you elect yourself head of the Planning Planet Recognition and Accreditation Taskforce (PRAT) - another oppourtunity to be viewed as the biggest prat. Lets see how far you get - hot air and moaning about others initiatives tends not to produce very much.
Love and peace
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Submitted by Charleston-Jos… on Wed, 2008-12-03 01:29
Doctors have to pass exams and get ‘certified’ to practise. No doubt some of those people ‘will study the material, pass the exam with the objective of adding it to their CV. That is their sole objective. They aren’t actually interested in professional standards, learning, etc. They just want a great CV that will get them a well paid job. They may have no aptitude at all. They will have forgotten anything they learned within 6 months’.
I don’t know about you but if/when I am ill I would rather trust someone who has gone through all that rigmarole rather than someone who wants to break into the field, has experience but no formal learning and so on and so on (okay I am talking about western medicine).
Similarly, there might be a few people in planning who are as you describe but I bet the majority will be the ones who do want to progress in the discipline. All things being equal, would you rather trust a ‘certified’ planner with the time management or a Johnny off the street who says he his keen and has lots of experience - even if there is no way of gauging how keen and if the experience is relevant.
Like Toby, I am amazed by the negative comments this is getting. This is an initiative from the CIOB. There is nothing to stop anyone else, any other organisation, any other country producing their own standards and certification. Pretty much like the BMA for UK doctors, other places have their own standards. If you don’t like what the CIOB are doing, well fine but may I suggest (and I am not speaking on behalf of the CIOB) the you either shut up and ignore what they are doing or do something that suits you, your country, your industry or your language.
How the heck are planners supposed to get any recognition if we remain a rag-bag of people who say we are good but have no way of demonstrating it?
I must say I am amazed that this thread has not seen a overall thumbs up for the intiative the CIOB has embarked upon.
After I spoke at the PP conference in Reading, I had a large number of people contact me to see how they could become involved and the feedback was very positive. This thread is entieled "The Road to Recognition", and yet when. Framework is put forward to assist in the process it is not fully welcomed.
I would suggest that everyone read the CIOB research and goals of the initiative and then comment to improve upon on it not dismiss it from the outset.
One of the drawbacks about any certification like this is that it attracts people who are good at passing exams.
There are lots of people who will study the material, pass the exam with the objective of adding it to their CV. That is their sole objective. They arent actually interested in professional standards, learning, etc. They just want a great CV that will get them a well paid job. They may have no aptitude at all. They will have forgotten anything they learned within 6 months.
There are several problems with this but the main one is that the certification itself becomes rather meaningless.
The flip side of this are folk who genuinely want to break into this field and find they need such certifications just to get their first break. The certification works like another hurdle they have to jump over.
These factors combine to create a pool of certified yet inexperienced people who have less aptitude for the work than if the certification didnt exist.
I dont know what the answer is but I can certainly point to many instances where other certifications are not achieving their original aims and have become rather meaningless due to these issues.
THE VERY ESSENCE OF PLANNING IS TO PLAN FOR THE BETTER. IF YOU GUYS ARE NOW DOING THAT PLANNING ACCREDITATION TASK, I MAY SAY THAT ITS LEAST EXPECTED OUTCOME WOULD BE FOR THE GOOD AND BETTERMENT OF OUR PLANNING PROFESSION.
BY NATURE, TRULY CHANGE IS MOST OFTEN CRITICIZED AND RESISTED. BUT, WITHOUT THAT CRITICISM AND RESISTANCE, ONE MAY NOT FULLY FIND A NEAR PERFECT APPROACH AND SOLUTION TO THE TASK. IN A WAY, CRITICISM AND RESISTANCE MAKES THINGS EVEN MORE BETTER.
MOVE ON GUYS. I AM ONE OF THOSE WHO ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR ITS GOOD RESULT. THANK YOU.
“Majority of Planning Planet members comes from UK influence line of thinking (basically, former colonies of the once mighty British Empire, now member of the Commonwealth Countries).
But, the once upon a time is not really the best thinking in the planning universe.”
I thought you had passed your racist, nationalistic, ‘chip on your shoulder’ phase - but it seems not.
Whilst you seem to love bitching about the status quo you never seem to do anything about it. If you think the UK influence is not really the best thinking in the planning universe why don’t you do something about it. My opinion is that cream will rise to the top so, who ever you think is the current ‘best thinking in the planning universe’, will no doubt show their hand eventually, be it the US, China or any other established or emerging nation.
As Toby has pointed out a number of times, a few people have bothered to do something, and they just happen to be UK centric (although Keith Pickavance is based in Hong Kong). They have identified problems in the UK Construction Industry in particular and are now trying to do something about it. If you are not happy with the way things are going, well why not you do something about it? Let’s say you start by doing some fundamental research into the state of planning and programming in the UAE or any other part of the world that you feel more comfortable with other than the once mighty British Empire.
No matter how many times I scour the Internet or the resources of the British Library I have yet to find any serious research, publication or original thought emanating from the great mind of Charleston-Joseph Orbe. Maybe if you contributed a little more to the development of our discipline then maybe it would be in a better state (but somehow I doubt it). I am passionate about planning so I got off my fat arse and volunteered to assist in the initiative Toby talks about - why haven’t you?
In our quest for regocnition and accreditation, we have to look back to our humble beginning and trace how we in planning planet becomes a dynamic, responsive, intellectual, all the best adjectives that we can describe ourselves and of course sometimes crazy, hilarious, fighters of planning ideas.
What Im trying to say is that Planning Planet is a brand, a very unique brand, that differentiates us from other planning organization.
and it is preferable for this PLANNING PLANET BRAND will remain forever, as what our founding fathers (PP admin) have originally in mind.
If we loss this PLANNING PLANET BRAND, then we will be like the other planning organization, the pretenders to have the absolute representation of planners, in papers, but not in reality.
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It is
"A Long and Winding Road".
Cheers,
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Thanks for finishing this thread "The Road to a shame"
Cheers,
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Hi Charleston
Go to the new thread Accreditation Based on Experience.
Best regards
Mike Testro
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I second your motion Mike.
We do need to move on.
Cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling
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Hi Chris
Lets se how things develope.
Meanwhile I am starting a new thread on Planning Qualification and Recognition so that we can get back to the main issue.
Best regards
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Mike,
In an ideal world, of course, you are quite right, a polite admonition that his behaviour is not acceptable would be all that was needed. Unfortunately this is not an ideal world and with Charlie polite admonitions are ignored. His arrogance is such that he truly believes that he can say and do no wrong, something which I have no doubt is apparent to you as you have read most of his posts.
You said yourself that you had to slap him down when he was particularly unpleasant to Carmen. Unfortunately even this seems to register for only a limited period, so the only remedy is to react as David described when he becomes particularly obnoxious.
As for voting him off, yes, we could do that, but the ease with which a mail account can be opened under a different name really make that pretty much a waste of time. The only recourse seems to be to treat his excusions into xenophobia, homophobia, racial discrimination harshly to show that they have no place on this forum. Hopefully this will eventually get through to him.
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Hi Chris - Hi David
I have read most of Charlestons threads and I recently had to slap him down when he was really nasty to Carmen.
Then again we had a good debate last year on Who Owns the Float. Andrew Flowerdew finally adjudicated on my side.
He can be a bit of a "Stick Poker" but we should not react with canine instinct. The way to get him into line is to politely tell him where he is wrong but not ignore him.
As a last resort I suppose we could all join up and vote him off the site but lets see if he has learnt anything from this last episode.
Best regards
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Being new to all this in this typical forum, why cant we all be civilised about this, even in the present climate, When someone starts to offend people on here why do people react in a way that we all get to read about it.
Lets make this a full debate on the way forward and not be picky on critisism.
we are all professional adults and need to act in a manner that needs to show our professionalism.
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Mike,
You said of Charlie - I know that you can put points across fluently and cogently when you want to - so why not keep to that format. If you have read enough of his posts to draw that conclusion, you should also be aware that he is capable of a vindictive, spiteful, nastiness and a virulent, bigoted, intolerance which can be absolutely breathtaking.
Having been the subject of a number of Charlie’s offensive diatribes I’m afraid I’m with David on this one.
No doubt you will have noticed that, despite having had to admit he was wrong, there is no hint of apology or contrition. Just a snide enquiry as to whether he will be executed, what so many of us have come to regard as typical Charlie.
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Mike
I totally agree with you.
But tell me this, if you continually poke a dog with a sharp stick would you be surprised if it suddenly bit you?
I am afraid I have complained to the moderators on more than one occasion about Charlies racist and offensive behaviour and still he is allowed to poke me with a sharp stick.
I am proud of my country (although our recent governments are trying my patience), I love the richness of our language. I find it difficult to stand by, all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing… and let some moron besmirch my country and language.
Love and peace (until the next time)...
David
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Hey You Two
Read the forum rules - especially Rule 2:
Keep conversations civil. This is a professional forum. Flaming, taunting, name calling, abusive language and derisive / condescending posts will not be tolerated.
Stop it both of NOW.
Best regards
Mike Testro
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Mike,
I profess my innocence. But as the saying goes, ignorance of the law exempt no one. Am I going to be executed or terminated?
Now that Im enligthen so
I will abide with the norm in our forum.
I will not use complete capital letters to send my message accross.
Cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling
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"Why Are Capital Letters Difficult?
Why are words written in capitals more difficult to read than words in small letters? There are two basic reasons:
Firstly, at least for native English speakers, children usually learn to read and write small letters before capital letters.
Secondly, and more importantly, words written in capital letters have no "shape". Words with small letters go up and down. Some small letters have "ascenders" (like the letter b). They go up. Some small letters have "descenders" (like the letter p). They go down. Some small letters have no ascender or descender. They stay in the middle. So small letters vary in height. But all capital letters are the same height (BP).
When we read text, especially when we read fast, we do not read each individual letter. Instead, we read whole words and phrases. And we recognize these words and phrases partly by their shape."
Maybe you should have a word with your English teacher Charlie, he/she does not sound too good. Or, more likley, some of his/her students were so thick and stupid that they could not grasp the need for clarity in written communication.
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Hi Charleston
The convention in internet chatrooms and blogs is that CAPITAL LETTERS indicate a raised voice.
A complete message in CAPITALS indicates shouting and is mostly discouraged.
I know that you can put points across fluently and cogently when you want to - so why not keep to that format.
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Charlie...
I am forced to respond because you are a f***** IDIOT (I guess that is something similar to what you refer to as xxxxxx ENGLISH yyyyyyy). Your ignorance about everything is beyond redemption.
Before shouting off your mouth why not take a look at, say, Wikipedia:
Internet
This form of typography also appears in on-line forums. It was once an inevitable byproduct of using machines with limited support for lowercase text (such as certain dumb terminals, early Apple II models), but as full support of ASCII became standard, it became solely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behaviour. As a result, netiquette generally discourages the use of all caps.
As far as I know Wikipedia was born in the USA and is not purely English. That chip on your shoulder must be really wearing you down.
B******s to you... you really are a nasty racist...
Any offence absolutely intended.
David
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Hello Chris,
You conclusion that Im shouting is borne by your misconception.
If I print in capital letter, then, you conclude that Im shouting.
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CAPITAL LETTERS AND SHOUTING.
DID YOU HEAR ME SHOUTING WHEN I USED CAPITAL LETTERS. Is this the way english writing are to be interpreted. My teacher in English did not tell me that writing in capital letters is tantamount to shouting.
or as my favorite thesis which i really hate to use now in 2009 but force me to use: IS THIS THE INTERPRETATION for idiotic xxxxxx ENGLISH yyyyyyy ???? The pretenders masters in the use of the english language.
Please enlighthen the PP community.
Cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling
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Charlie,
Stop shouting.
If you’re so keen on fresh ideas for 2009 why don’t you provide some.
Chris Oggham
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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ROAD.
WASH OUT BY FLASH FLOOD.
IT IS ALREADY 6 SIX DAYS FROM NEW YEAR AND WE DONT HAVE ANY FRESH IDEAS FOR 2009.
Cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling
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Hence if its OK with everyone Ill start 4 threads on these 4 questions.
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17 yearsRE: The Road to Recognition
The original post was:
"...A 20 minute discussion ensued where more questions than answers appeared to be raised. At the end of the debate, just about everyone agreed that a Discussion Forum Group be setup whereby the PP community could discuss the issues at hand.
Issues raised and discussed were such as....
(1) Do we need to be recognised / certified / accredited or graded?
(2) Do we need a professional body such as APM or PMI to do this, or should, or could we, organise and accredit ourselves?
(3) Irrespective of how such certification or accreditation is carried out, what Core Competences / Skills should be recognised and how could we grade such skills?
(4) How can we assure the market / employers that such accreditation is unbiased and indeed accurate?
The PP Team hope that this is the beginning of something new and exciting for us planners!!
"
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17 yearsRE: The Road to Recognition
The would be pp body has not to be just another organization. In the process of forming the body a lot of consultation with the industrys major players may be required. Some strong representation will be a great help.
If you are experienced planner then you knew exactly how it is and what is needed.
I dont want to sound too ambitious but what for the planners and schedulers need accreditation, professional growth, is not it? Why would I want to be a member? Besides no one is going to get it free.
Just an opinion.
Cheers to all..
Member for
20 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
AND I WOULD PROPOSE THAT WE WILL GET ACCREDITATION THROUGH OUR OWN PP EFFORT, OUR OWN PP VALUES AS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING ENGINEERS SOMETIMES CALLED PLANNERS AND SCHEDULERS (if you happen to be not an engineer but practicing planning and scheduling).
Member for
20 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
The idea of CIOB getting PEO or Planning Planet involved in CIOB planning accreditation was
similar to PMI getting AACEs PSP program into PMI planning agenda.
or maybe Im wrong
CIOB- Chartered Institute of Builders
PMI- Project Management Institute
What is interesting to note is both organization are lacking in substance with regards to planning ideas and practice. Why????
Because planning is only a miniscule of the whole project management or bulding concept.
Unfortunately, both organization realize their shortcomming and found out that PMP or Chartered members are ignorant of the whole planning process, the use of planning software, the forensic side of planning
AND THEY THOUGHT THAT BY ENTICING PP TO GET ACCREDITED, IT WILL SOLVE THEIR PROBLEM.
They are dead wrong
WHY,why, y??????????????????????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as my project managers used to say
Member for
17 yearsRE: The Road to Recognition
A good planners real test is scheduling a task that seem is imposible to build. He gets idea from the expert and how much the client is willing to spend. On the process he will get lots of criticism from the very team that he is working with. At the end of the day, he has proven he can do it and he got rewarded.
I can see many potentials in formalizing the body to govern the planning planet and its members. It will only happen at a certain cost. Lets continue finding a way how it could be done.
Cheers to all..
Member for
18 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
David
This is also my last posting on this thread. I am genuinely surprised, and also rather disappointed by the resposes of some, who say that an accreditation is wanted, but then do not want to join in with an existing initiative which could then be tailored and adopted by all organisations at a later date.
Once again, if anyone does want to get involved with the current CIOB initiative, please feel free to e-mail me at tobyhunt@hillintl.com
Regards
Toby
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23 years 7 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Toby
You have more stamina than I.
I can hear the cheers when I say that i am no longer going to post on this thread. Why bother - there sems to be such amount of negative feeling without a scintilla of positive thought.
I say sod em. If they dont want to come to our party then why bother with them. At least the CIOB is doing something.
I am beginning to wonder if there is any correleation between the number of post and the stupidity/lack of awareness of the poster (hello Charlie).
Rant #3 over
David
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19 years 1 monthRE: The Road to Recognition
i supposed you got 20K+ PP members behind you...?
Member for
18 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Dear All
One small point on this.
The CIOB recognises that it may not be the best long term vehicle through which to accredit planners and schedulers, and that is why Gary France from the PEO is involved. The initial thoughts were that they might be the more suitable (through IPEO, MPEO, FPEO etc).
Is it not perhaps better for us all to pull in the same direction now with the CIOB to get the guide completed, and then argue about the better long term vehicle further down the line?
Regards
Toby
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19 years 1 monthRE: The Road to Recognition
This has started but didnt progressed I supposed.
May I suggest to PP Admin the following:
1. At the moment, instead of sending Job Openings to all the members (thru free e-mail), why not send a pre-qualifying examination to each and every member (this is done in private). You may prepare several types of examination and send it on random, so that no one knows what he or she is going to receive.
2. Granting that the membership is Free, I believe that the results of the examinations (considering that it is valid)can be used as a filtering device, for any purpose that you may want, i.e. access to the PP pages or database, categorization (leveling) or whatever (I just hope the forum remains free for all without discrimination, even for those who did not pass the exams).
3. The examination(s) should be done only once (for each member to take), if you fail, theres no second chance. This will assure that only serious takers or members will take the chance.
Godspeed!
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21 years 5 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Hi folks,
Se is absolutely right. Before any decision is made concerning the direction to take we need to know what it is that people want. Not only that we need to know what they dont want, after all its no good developing an organisation that no-one wants to be part of.
As for Charlie pointing out that Planning Planet is free, he is absolutely correct. But the only reason it is free is because of the efforts of a small group of dedicated individuals who work hard and for free to keep it that way. If, however, a professional organisation with recognised certification or accreditation is formed (see PP Admin post#1) it wont be free.
There is a great deal of expense in running a professional organisation, and it wont be covered by the revenue from a few ads by Google. An Annual membership fee will be a necessity, this alone, means finding out what people want and what they dont want just as Se pointed out.
Chris Oggham
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23 years 7 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
"The essence of planning planet brand is FREE, free membership irrespective of religious belief, affiliation to other planning organization. It is not discriminatory to newbie planners, to wedding planners, to keyboard planners, to pretenders to the throne of planning expers, to the real professional planners, etc."
Is that the only way you can assure yourself you will get membership Charlie? Are we allowed to discriminate against nationalistic, racist, chip-on-your-shoulder planners?
And dont forget, the value of something that is FREE is nothing.
Member for
20 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
I agree that we have to move on with the accreditation using our unique planning planet brand.
The essence of planning planet brand is FREE, free membership irrespective of religious belief, affiliation to other planning organization. It is not discriminatory to newbie planners, to wedding planners, to keyboard planners, to pretenders to the throne of planning expers, to the real professional planners, etc.
FREE free for anyone to log in,
FREE freedom to share ideas with anyone especially the real profesional planners,
FREE to access Planning Planet materials.
Member for
24 years 5 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
I think the main issue of contention here is how this accreditation will be branded. There are those who think that accreditation through an existing Chartered Institute, Cost Management Group, Project Management Group is one way. The other, is to come up with an independent accreditation for schedulers/planners by schedulers/planners.
I believe if we go by the first option, that would not achieve the goal of producing a “universally” accepted standard, if this is really the objective. Doing the 2nd option could do otherwise, maybe.
IMO.
Have we ever tried asking the schedulers/planners on this issue? Why don’t we put it to a survey? So that we would know what schedulers/planners stand in this issue. Not what Chartered Institute, Cost Management Group, Project Management Group want.
Se
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20 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
ALSO ME.
Please dont misunderstand me.
In my first salvo, I said
WOW:
Planning Planet Planning and Scheduling Professional.
I really wanted us to be a planning brand or some sort of planning ambasador of goodwill,
NOT THE PLANNERS LIKE PEO, CIOB, PMI, APMI, etc.. or any of their clones
(I love the PSP of AACE), but I prefer our very own PLANNING PLANET BRAND.
Cheers and happy,
planning and scheduling
Charlie
Member for
17 yearsRE: The Road to Recognition
Please dont misunderstand me. I am not nay saying this idea at all. I didnt know the background so I asked for the rationale behind it.
I then suggested an issue to be considered when designing it - i.e. how to target it for people with more genuine or more in line with the original professional intention. Please dont assume this means I am opposed to the idea because Im not. I didnt offer a solution to this issue only because I dont know the best way to deal with it. That doesnt mean its a bad concept.
Member for
17 yearsRE: The Road to Recognition
Dear All,
Nice sharing from everyone.
Say we finally agreed on something, how is the structure would be?
We are talking global while I understand the planning practices are not 100% the same from the 2 sides of the globe.
Cheers..
Member for
23 years 7 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Chris
You are correct of course - I always rise to the bait, maybe Charlie just loves toying with me!
David
Member for
21 years 5 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
David,
Admirably concise and superbly targeted. However, in mitigation, (yes I know I must have had a bang on the head if Im defending Charlie), in a brainstorming process like this even nay-sayers and bullsh1t merchants have a part to play, so for once Charlie may be fulfilling a useful function.
Chris
Member for
23 years 7 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
FFS Charlie
If you dont like the CIOB brand then dont support it - I am sure the CIOB brand will survive without your support. And dont worry too much about no-one respecting you - are you sure if anyone does at the moment?
I like how you use the word our when you refer to brilliant planning minds - in my humble opinion you are flattering yourself.
May I suggest, as you are so vociferous about not wanting to be aligned with anyone except for Planning Planet, that you elect yourself head of the Planning Planet Recognition and Accreditation Taskforce (PRAT) - another oppourtunity to be viewed as the biggest prat. Lets see how far you get - hot air and moaning about others initiatives tends not to produce very much.
Love and peace
David
Member for
20 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
The fundamental glich if we follow CIOB is that we lost that Planning Planet Brand.
We will becomes imitators
NO ONE WILL RESPECT US because we will be clone.
And I dont want to be a clone of CIOB.
There must be a solution somewhere considering our brilliant planning minds.
It may take time , 6 months, 1 year, 2 years ...
In the meantime, let the discussions, debate, brainstorming,
GOES ON AND ON
Cheers,
Charlie
Member for
23 years 7 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Dave and other naysayers
Ask yourself this…
Doctors have to pass exams and get ‘certified’ to practise. No doubt some of those people ‘will study the material, pass the exam with the objective of adding it to their CV. That is their sole objective. They aren’t actually interested in professional standards, learning, etc. They just want a great CV that will get them a well paid job. They may have no aptitude at all. They will have forgotten anything they learned within 6 months’.
I don’t know about you but if/when I am ill I would rather trust someone who has gone through all that rigmarole rather than someone who wants to break into the field, has experience but no formal learning and so on and so on (okay I am talking about western medicine).
Similarly, there might be a few people in planning who are as you describe but I bet the majority will be the ones who do want to progress in the discipline. All things being equal, would you rather trust a ‘certified’ planner with the time management or a Johnny off the street who says he his keen and has lots of experience - even if there is no way of gauging how keen and if the experience is relevant.
Like Toby, I am amazed by the negative comments this is getting. This is an initiative from the CIOB. There is nothing to stop anyone else, any other organisation, any other country producing their own standards and certification. Pretty much like the BMA for UK doctors, other places have their own standards. If you don’t like what the CIOB are doing, well fine but may I suggest (and I am not speaking on behalf of the CIOB) the you either shut up and ignore what they are doing or do something that suits you, your country, your industry or your language.
How the heck are planners supposed to get any recognition if we remain a rag-bag of people who say we are good but have no way of demonstrating it?
Second rant of the thread complete!
David
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18 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
I must say I am amazed that this thread has not seen a overall thumbs up for the intiative the CIOB has embarked upon.
After I spoke at the PP conference in Reading, I had a large number of people contact me to see how they could become involved and the feedback was very positive. This thread is entieled "The Road to Recognition", and yet when. Framework is put forward to assist in the process it is not fully welcomed.
I would suggest that everyone read the CIOB research and goals of the initiative and then comment to improve upon on it not dismiss it from the outset.
Member for
17 yearsRE: The Road to Recognition
One of the drawbacks about any certification like this is that it attracts people who are good at passing exams.
There are lots of people who will study the material, pass the exam with the objective of adding it to their CV. That is their sole objective. They arent actually interested in professional standards, learning, etc. They just want a great CV that will get them a well paid job. They may have no aptitude at all. They will have forgotten anything they learned within 6 months.
There are several problems with this but the main one is that the certification itself becomes rather meaningless.
The flip side of this are folk who genuinely want to break into this field and find they need such certifications just to get their first break. The certification works like another hurdle they have to jump over.
These factors combine to create a pool of certified yet inexperienced people who have less aptitude for the work than if the certification didnt exist.
I dont know what the answer is but I can certainly point to many instances where other certifications are not achieving their original aims and have become rather meaningless due to these issues.
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19 years 1 monthRE: The Road to Recognition
I believe that the road to recognition is not cheap. If it comes from the UK then it means tons of sterling pounds.
And going global? A few questions might be asked:
1. How simple it is?
2. How long will it take?
3. How much will an aspiring member is supposed to spend in acquiring such certification?
4. How many serious and experienced Planners exist or alive?
5. How to attract and convince aspiring Planners?
6. What is the minimum level of education or experience (minimum and standard requirement) required to be considered for membership?
7. Language to be used (only English)?
8. Is personal attendance necessary, or can this be done on web?
9. Wheres my bin???
Member for
18 years 5 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Beautifully said and written David
Cheers mate
Member for
17 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
THE VERY ESSENCE OF PLANNING IS TO PLAN FOR THE BETTER. IF YOU GUYS ARE NOW DOING THAT PLANNING ACCREDITATION TASK, I MAY SAY THAT ITS LEAST EXPECTED OUTCOME WOULD BE FOR THE GOOD AND BETTERMENT OF OUR PLANNING PROFESSION.
BY NATURE, TRULY CHANGE IS MOST OFTEN CRITICIZED AND RESISTED. BUT, WITHOUT THAT CRITICISM AND RESISTANCE, ONE MAY NOT FULLY FIND A NEAR PERFECT APPROACH AND SOLUTION TO THE TASK. IN A WAY, CRITICISM AND RESISTANCE MAKES THINGS EVEN MORE BETTER.
MOVE ON GUYS. I AM ONE OF THOSE WHO ANXIOUSLY WAITS FOR ITS GOOD RESULT. THANK YOU.
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19 years 10 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Hi David
Nothing like a good rant to clear the air - even if it is a bit Pythonesque.
Let us leave him alone nd get on with the work.
Best regards
Mike Testro.
Member for
23 years 7 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Charlie…
“Majority of Planning Planet members comes from UK influence line of thinking (basically, former colonies of the once mighty British Empire, now member of the Commonwealth Countries).
But, the once upon a time is not really the best thinking in the planning universe.”
I thought you had passed your racist, nationalistic, ‘chip on your shoulder’ phase - but it seems not.
Whilst you seem to love bitching about the status quo you never seem to do anything about it. If you think the UK influence is not really the best thinking in the planning universe why don’t you do something about it. My opinion is that cream will rise to the top so, who ever you think is the current ‘best thinking in the planning universe’, will no doubt show their hand eventually, be it the US, China or any other established or emerging nation.
As Toby has pointed out a number of times, a few people have bothered to do something, and they just happen to be UK centric (although Keith Pickavance is based in Hong Kong). They have identified problems in the UK Construction Industry in particular and are now trying to do something about it. If you are not happy with the way things are going, well why not you do something about it? Let’s say you start by doing some fundamental research into the state of planning and programming in the UAE or any other part of the world that you feel more comfortable with other than the once mighty British Empire.
No matter how many times I scour the Internet or the resources of the British Library I have yet to find any serious research, publication or original thought emanating from the great mind of Charleston-Joseph Orbe. Maybe if you contributed a little more to the development of our discipline then maybe it would be in a better state (but somehow I doubt it). I am passionate about planning so I got off my fat arse and volunteered to assist in the initiative Toby talks about - why haven’t you?
Regards
David
Member for
19 years 10 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
Hi All
We must not forget that planning today is a young discipline - before computers there were no planners.
Very complex structures got built without our specialist input - just a few lines on some graph paper.
Neither was there a burgeoning claims industry.
I go back to my usual theme - If you cant build it you cant plan it.
Best regards
Mike Testro
Member for
20 years 3 monthsRE: The Road to Recognition
In our quest for regocnition and accreditation, we have to look back to our humble beginning and trace how we in planning planet becomes a dynamic, responsive, intellectual, all the best adjectives that we can describe ourselves and of course sometimes crazy, hilarious, fighters of planning ideas.
What Im trying to say is that Planning Planet is a brand, a very unique brand, that differentiates us from other planning organization.
and it is preferable for this PLANNING PLANET BRAND will remain forever, as what our founding fathers (PP admin) have originally in mind.
If we loss this PLANNING PLANET BRAND, then we will be like the other planning organization, the pretenders to have the absolute representation of planners, in papers, but not in reality.