“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness”
Chinese proverb.
My first OSS was a massive challenge. Some may have found the project daunting. Actually, many of my colleagues did. But it never felt that way to me for some reason.
There were so many things to do that no matter what I worked on, it was getting us incrementally closer to delivery. There was no time to stop and curse the darkness, no time to ponder process or design. I just kept ticking off activities one-by-one, lighting another candle, getting a further sense of achievement no matter how small.
If you’re a technologist (eg enterprise architect, developer, BA, tech PM, CTO, etc) who has been tasked with implementing significant technological and business transformation in
We’ve embarked on a journey of trying to plan for the future of OSS/BSS, not by predicting the future, but by seeking ways to be
Over the years, I’ve often referred to The Corkscrew Analogy or Momentum Spiral to describe a mindset of incremental improvement that’s needed to keep an
We’ve embarked on a journey of trying to plan for the future of OSS/BSS, not by predicting the future, but by seeking ways to be
Here at Passionate About OSS, we are exactly that – Passionate About OSS (Operational Support Systems). We’re also passionate about BSS, NMS, or any other names you call the tools that help to operationalise your network.
