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How to manage a Proof of Concept
POCs as a concept are a response to customers getting oversold. As a vendor we’d rather skip the whole thing and trust our sales team to scope properly. As a customer we’d rather not spend time testing instead of doing. Sometimes they have to be done though, and it’s best for everyone to do it
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Moving the transformation point of data
There’s a pattern that has become common knowledge, perhaps on its way to received wisdom. Endpoints pass their raw data off to storage as quickly as possible. Analysts then do their work against that storage using map reduced processors, automated and/or ad hoc. This pattern has many benefits and is correct for many use cases.
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Conflicts at Work
Work conflicts aren’t fun, but they come with the territory. Here’s a quick field guide for recognizing the type of conflict being observed. conflict level 4: we disagree on a tactical implementation approach. I think we should write this in language foo and you think language bar. I think the configuration options should be in
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Growing the Company
Recent conversations on going public have reminded me that some assume taking a company public is inherently, completely good, necessary to being Important in the Industry. Here’s a few reasons why that is not always true, noting that I am not a financial professional. Posit that the natural course of a successful company is to
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DURSLEy and CAPS
Monitoring and metrics! Theoretically any system that a human cares about could be monitored with these three patterns: I’m hardly the first to notice there’s overlap… here’s a good starting point to read from. I haven’t seen these compressed to a single metric set yet, probably from not looking hard enough. Or because “DURSLEy” is too
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